If you use
to start Gimp, what do you get?

Python is part of the mac OS but you ought to be able to install python scripts and have them working and mine are installed in the correct place

is there a problem with the forum at the moment because everything I post is giving my gyp! pm's sitting in my inbox....each post I submit is giving me trouble

It says you don't have gimpfu, or it can't be found. So...wow, do you ever recall GIMP asking if you wanted Python to be installed, when you installed GIMP?

My choice would be the "Offset angle" or "Phase shift" (0, 90, 180, 270).

The +/- sine/cosine references aren't as obvious to a non-mathematically oriented user. (I've done a lot of math and I had to pause to think about what they meant in this context.)

The other choices would require descriptive text, and that text would probably boil down to the phase shift or offset angle.

A while back there was a discussion about the version of Python needed for GIMP.

If I recall correctly, GIMP requires an older version of Python (2.6) and I won't work with the current version.

Again, if I remember correctly, the solution was to install the older 2.6 version of Python.

You might want to do a forum search for Python version.

I have all my python scripts working except this one even the new 01 version will not work on my Gimp-2.6.11.
But oddly enough they work with python 2.7 in Gimp-2.7.3
Example
image from 2.7.3


In Gimp-2.6.11 the path filter doesn't even show in the menu.
Hrmmm i am beginning to wonder if this is a conflict of some sorts.I only have 5 python scripts running in this Gimp-2.6.11 version on my laptop, as my other pc is still down.They are


Anyone else having problems with the script have any of these in their plug-ins folder?
I wonder if moving the dll file to system would be a solution?

can these labels be more descriptive so I have a clue what they mean?

As near as I can determine this is what each setting does:

Pitch - Determines how wide the shape is

Width - How far the shape sticks out from the path

Asymmetry - Varies with the shape used. Triangles slant, squares get wider, circles change. Don't know the rest.

Sine, Cosine - determines the position of the shape along the path.

If I were renaming those:

I'd call the Pitch, Width of shape.

The Width, Length of shape

Asymmetry I'd leave Asymmetry

Sine, Cosine ... since they determine the positioning along the path, I don't know what I'd call them. Leave them as is, I guess.

Split top and bottom splits the path of the shape into two paths. Here's a demo of the splitting of a square.


Dialog

Rod,
I have Windows XP, SP3.
The only "plugin.dll" I have is buried in the system folders for Shockwave.
I do not have "Msvcrt10.dll" on my system. Lots of "msvcrt.dll" copies in the Windows system folders and for Java, but no "msvcrt10.dll".

Here is a screen shot of my USER plug-in folder


hope that helps.

I also find the terms Pitch and Width confusing. They are more like the terms you'd see for the measurement of screw threads. (Machinist terms)

My vote would be to call:
Pitch => Period of the shape (or Width)
Width => Amplitude (or Height)
These terms are more in keeping with the standard terms used to describe waveforms. (I've analyzed a lot of waveforms in my life.)

I like Height for Width.

I think Width and Height are better. The terms Period and Amplitude can be confusing for some but I think they'd be better than the terms that are in the dialog at present.

I agree with ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The only two reasons I have even seen for a script to not show up in the menu are:
- conflict of name with an existing one (but that means that you have other scripts registering as
"path-periodic-triangle-wave" et al (and registering the 4 of them!)
- a syntax error in the script (due to $deity knows why, from incompatible Python version to
indentation error after an editor hosed the original indentation in the Python file).

Both cases produce meaningful messages in the console during Gimp startup, so start "gimp-console" (or the equivalent on your system) and see what it says during startup.

Good point. Period and Amplitude are technical terms.

I think Width and Height are good alternatives. I'd be happy with them.

Also, Width and Height are common terms within Gimp so people already have an understanding of them.

"Period" I would agree with, although it is a time measure. How about "Wavelength"?
"Amplitude" is OK if it is understood that it's one half of what is the current "width" (if you look at the source code, the width in the dialogs is divided by two before being kept in a variable called "amplitude").

Width and height are very confusing IMHO when you deal with vertical paths.

whatever it ends up getting called all this discussion has given me a much better idea what the heck is going on.

you could always have images:

<----->

^
|

pretty good cecilia. that would be good and clear. just put in arrows. Anyway, my vote is width and height......

I'm perfectly happy with what they are labeled now.