I added some new logo scripts here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1858

Anyway, the one I have a question about is reflex-logo.scm.

If a user has their foreground color set to anything pastel or lighter in color, the resulting Edge layer ends up flat or blurred. Only when the user has the foreground color set to black or any dark color, does the Edge layer get the shiny displacement/bumped look.

Now, I set "gimp-context-set-default-colors" at the very top of this script, and it did, indeed set the default colors as I intended for it to, but it still mucked up the result of the Edge layer. I'm baffled.

How can I have the script, in a disassociated way, reset the color defaults and not effect the result of the Edge layer? I thought by placing the default procedure at the very top, would perform the same action as me setting them myself, before the script ran. But the results says otherwise.

Can you help?

I'm still lost. I guess I need to see the light of what you're saying. If, at the very top of the script, the very first action is me setting global default colors (this is before the let* layer creation) how can this not work? It doesn't make sense to me.

Yikes, you're comment is gone.

I'm not Saulgooode, but the one thing that I have noticed is that the logo creation script creates the text layer in the let* statement. This happens before the script starts to run and the color will be the foreground color that is active when the script is called.
Two possible solutions:

• Leave the layer creation in the let* statement and change the text layer color in the body of the script using the gimp-text-layer-set-color procedure.
• Move the text layer creation statement into the body of the script after you change the foreground color.

edit:
The text layer is created here at the top of the final script:

It's the last line in that snippet. Wish I could highlight it.

I changed the last script procedure to this:

I set my foreground color to a very pale yellow and ran the File/Create/Logos/Reflex...

p.s. Changing the color in the "apply-reflex-logo" script at the start of the file is a little more complicated because the text layer has already been copied into a new layer, again called 'text-layer' so you'd have to change both layers.

Thank you. It works beautifully. No need to open a dummy image nor worry about the fg color.

I used the "gimp-context-set-foreground" procedure in this very place and it didn't work. Now I am curious as to why it didn't work. Shouldn't it have?

I will repost a new scm file for this on the other thread.

No, it shouldn't have worked. The text layer had already been created at that point, using the then current foreground color.
Once the layer is created, the only way I have found to change the text color is with the "gimp-text-layer-set-color" procedure.

edit:
To be more specific, the let* statement creates all the variables listed as it's arguments before the script body starts executing.

Ahhhh, I didn't know that. I always thought it was line by line. Interesting.

BTW, THANK YOU BKH1914! Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier.

You're welcome.