Tin,
now that you are becoming step after step (with the help of Ofnuts) a paths expert, may I ask you to write down and publish an example .py script which:
- calls MareroQ's Simple Path Shapes (choose just one or two, as you like: petal for instance)
- performs some basic operations: stroke with a specific brush, performs path-to-selection and fills (with a color or a pattern) the selection and/or the inverse selection.
By choosing flower for instance you may produce a user adjusted outcome, with different contours and petal contents.

From that sample someone else (me, for instance, a completely paths ignorant) can learn how to make use of MareroQ script from inside a caller script.

Thanks in advance, if you like the idea

i'll see what i can do.... it wouldn't be expert work though

EDIT: I am hesitating on the stroke with specific brush as brushes has many options that calling from script i find really painful since you have to provide all the options when stroke the built in already provides all that.
I could do stroke path with line tool using some svg call.

OK, Tin, do as you prefer.
The importance for me is to have an example of:
- getting the produced path(s)
- stroke them -one at a time- (with the default active brush is OK) to define contours
- perform path to selection and fill the selection (or the inverse selection) -one at a time- either with a color or with a pattern
Thanks a lot
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Here you go --> Calling Simple Shapes Sample Script for GIMP
Hope it helps

T H A N K S A L O T ! ! !
Now I can play.....

you're gonna dream up another script aren't you?

just looked at the code, for me poor path-ignorant it's like Arabic language!
thanks again, Tin
slowly I'll try to understand and use for my plays...

certainly not soon.....hehehe
(maybe never!)

the code doesn't do anything with the paths other than grabbing pointers to vector objects and applying stroke and fill to them.

It's fine for me until filling, I don't understand the complexity of stroking.
I thought it was as simple as entering "gimp_edit_stroke_vectors" using as parameters the layer and the "vectors" used for the "select_item(....,vectors)"


EDIT : I TRIED THE SIMPLE METHOD I SAID BEFORE ("gimp_edit_stroke_vectors") AND IT WORKS !
now I survive better....

yeah but gimp's stroke vectors uses the active brush... so if you wanted to call that you have to set a bunch of context ...related to brush.
I just SVG stroke line method that i found on the net and it simply does solid stroke line like how i usually stroke vectors. I hardly ever use stroke with brush.

OK, understand, but at the moment I stay with the simple brush (for my simple mind it's easier)