Great Rob. Delaboratory 0.7.3.1, Gimp 2.8 and Vista32 works both ways using ShellOut

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I'm still having a problem sending to Gimp 2.8 from Delaboratory 0.7.3.1, if I first open an image in Delaboratory, so I'll not do that again unless anyone has any ideas? The following error message comes up in Delaboratory trying to send, jpg, tiff and raw. The only difference in the error messages is the file name, the extension is always .tiff.

Delaboratory saves tif results as 16-bit; I use the export to GIMP option, then close the image and Delaboratory and tolerate the myriad of error pop ups (i.e., just close them; lol).

It took me a little time to get it working but now that it is I have my 5 most favorite applications in one. This is the greatest invention since whipped cream. I'm not sure if I should have done it or not but each of the programs had a # in front of the line and the only way I could get them all to work was to remove them. A most sincere thanks for making this. I wish I knew more about writing code. I used to do a lot of it in the early 80s then got lazy, to my disgrace.

ShellOut is awesome.
Sorry i didn't mention the version of mine was updated.That may have saved some confusion.My apologies folks.
Glad you all got it working though.

And a big thanks to Rob A!

It works now and I know how to add more to it if I want to and that's what really matters. I feel like a two timer though. For years I've had paint.net on my computers and have kept it updated and full of filters but have never used it much. Now because of shellout I'll use it more often because as much as I'm dedicated to gimp I must admit paint.net has some neat features. Has shelllout turned me into a sellout? Sorry, tacky but I couldn't help myself.

Well i for one have quite a few less desktop icons in my RocketDock menu because i now run them all through primarily ShellOut. So i wouldn't say your a sellout at all.If anything you use the program more because its at your fingertips through Gimp. That's the way i look at it anyways.

I use windows 7, 64 bit and gimp 2.8.

I am having trouble getting it to run. I used the shellout version .7. I changed the locations where I have XNview and Inkscape installed as follows:

["XNView", "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\\xnview.exe\"", "png"],
#["Inkscape", "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\\Inkscape\\inkscape.exe\"", "png"],

This is the error I get in gimp after choosing filters-> shellout-> new from visible:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 699, in response
dialog.res = run_script(params)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 361, in run_script
return apply(function, params)
File "C:\Users\Grits\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins\ShellOut.py", line 128, in plugin_main
child = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 893, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Thanks for any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong.

You need to escape all the backslashes in windows. SO instead of


you need:


But I doubt you installed XNView directly under the program files directory, as it normally creates a directory to hold the file, so maybe it should really be


-Rob A>

Thank you for your help, but I still am getting errors. Yesterday, I uninstalled/reinstalled xnview into the program files folder, instead of program files (x86). That didn't seem to help any.

I attached a screenshot of what I got when I changed line 53 to your text.

I also tried this line:
["XNView", "C:\Program Files\XnView\XnView.exe\"", "png"],

I was then able to get the full name of Xnview to show in the gimp shellout popup box menu, instead of just getting X in the box. I also added # to the beginning of each line in the script for the programs I don't have.

This is the error I got after doing that:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 699, in response
dialog.res = run_script(params)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 361, in run_script
return apply(function, params)
File "C:\Users\Lisa\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins\ShellOut.py", line 123, in plugin_main
args = shlex.split(command)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\shlex.py", line 279, in split
return list(lex)
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\shlex.py", line 269, in next
token = self.get_token()
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\shlex.py", line 96, in get_token
raw = self.read_token()
File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\Python\lib\shlex.py", line 172, in read_token
raise ValueError, "No closing quotation"
ValueError: No closing quotation

I am determined to keep trying to get this to work, but am mystified at what to change. Thanks for any help you can offer.

can someone give me a simple explanation of what shellout is please???