Hi all.

I often need a new layer from my current selection.
There is a way: copy selection, paste selection and make a layer from floating selection.
It was not funny to do this always manually, so I wrote a script for it.
It does nothing else but automating the manual steps.
Originally the script was in Python, but there is an (already fixed) Error in the plugin-management
in the gimp source, so I ported it to script-fu, because everybody has the
script-fu funcionality in Gimp, but not alwas python.

The script deals with layer groups in Gimp 2.7.5 so it is not functional in Gimp 2.6.xx

Greets
Hatti

What is the benefit over Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V/Crl-Shift-N (5 key presses: Ctrl-C-V-Shift-N)?

Benefit: just one mouseclick againt 5 keystrokes. I always make my selection by mouse. So I don't need to leave the mouse.
second benefit: The layer is added just over the layer, that the selection contains. Also within layer groups.
More benefits: no.

Hatti

Not 5 but 2 keystrokes

Copy Ctrl-C
Paste as/ new layer What you wish

is true that Paste as/new layer has not a keystroke as default... but you may assign one

Paste As->New Layer places the new layer in the upper-left corner of the image, Onkei's script retains the layer's original offsets.

@Onkei, thanks for sharing your script. It seems very well written. The only change I might suggest would be to set the menu constraint parameter (the empty string after the date) in your register block to "*"; an asterisk will accept any kind of image but if there is no image open then the menu command will be grayed out. The empty string means that the menu command is available even if no image is open (useful for scripts that create new images or modify resources such as patterns or brushes).

Thanks Onkei.

Done. Thanks.

By the way: The last char of my name is not an i, but an l, it means 'uncle' in german :-)

Hatti

Hi

Yes - attached...
There are some limitations.

Gimp 2.6.xx has no layer groups. So the layer group funktionality is not there... of course.
I see no way to reorder layers. So the newly created layer will always be the most upper
in the layer stack.
Gimp 2.7.5 has a buildtin command to reorder layers even within layer groups.

Hatti

If you add the following code just after you convert your floating selection to a layer, the new layer will be lowered until it is just above 'inLayer'.

(The 'pred' function simply subtracts one from its argument.)