I am trying to apply gimp_text_fontname in a python plug-in and I want to create a new layer, not a floating layer, and the documentation in the Procedure Browser says I should be able to enter "-1" in the argument for the drawable and this will create a new layer. But this in not working in Python. I get an error message, "TypeError: wrong parameter type".

A possible work-around is gimp_text which is deprecated in preference to this gimp_text_fontname, but I can't figure out the parameters for this older version. Does anyone have a sample argument entries for this older procedure or a solution to the newer procedure?

Use None instead:


As a general rule, the Python interface uses the objects instead of their ids in most calls, so where -1 is used to indicate "no object" in the Scheme interface, a "None" is very likely to work in the Python interface (yes, the help in the procedure browser is really the Scheme one)

I think you pass it NIL or NULL or None -- whatever Python's non-object is.

Applying None did it. Strange, I was sure I tried None. Maybe I tried "None" using quotes.

Thanks all.