It seems we have a plug-in browser why not a script browser?
Can a plugin or script be created that reflects positioning of scripts in the menus?
I expect it would have to be created or written in SCM code because it would have to refresh with Gimp on Script-Fu Refresh Scripts
Something that reads a file created by Gimp (perhaps an XML list) or scriptrc file on load or refresh to allow a user to see where a filter (scm) has been placed in the Gimp interface menus?

Maybe look something like this?



Maybe it would have to be Python?

Missing something.... The plugin browser does show all the scripts, too?

-Rob A>

Rod may be a quicker way anyway Filters/Script-Fu/ Script-fu Console

there just click the Browse button in the bottom right;
that open the Procedure Browser that will show all procedures including here all script installed

Only search may be a bit painful because as far i know there is no way to distinguish gimp-built-in procedures , extra plugins and extra scripts

And to make search harder the name used is that in the script or plugin registered block of the script (or plugin or tool )

So as example the gaussian blur filter would be called plug-in-gauss Liquid resize gimp-lqr and so on

Anyway luckily you may even search for Author , for Date, and for Type , and that help a bit

Nija Posted by RobA
anyway i posted the same for the additional details

PS


there IS a way to distinguish, just reading the descrition that will pop out at the right side

What i mean is that apparently there is no a way to restrict the search to extra script or extra plugin only
or even to only script in general

And to confuse you even more a single script or plugin may add not only one but several procedures
(as example the Layer_effect script add a procedure for each effect, my modest get help script add 5 , 1 for each help link and so on )

The plug-in browser is a very good search engine for scripts and plug-ins. Scripts are plug-ins in their own way. I can find any plug-in/script I have in there.

There are two different views in the Plug-in browser: Tree and list view and all of the ones a user has are listed in it. The dialog can be stretched way out to accommodate everything that is in it. Ones that come with GIMP and the ones the user adds are all there. You just need a word from any one of them to find it.

List view for Gaussian blur.


Tree view for Gaussian blur.

Ahh never mind i did a search for my mats and frames script and it returned nothing so i thought it didnt find scripts (SCM)



As you can see it does find scripts with the script name.I wonder why it can not find mats and frames?
That is what the script is named - should it not be listed as
<image>/Script-Fu/Decor/Mat and
<image>/Script-Fu/Decor/Frames

In the plugin browser?

Wow ...compliment 0, that is much better then my suggestion

Rod
Should be there ...try to check the script name (in the script usually close to the end)

Grasshopper here....You three guys are awsome. I read a lot of posts (retired now...nothing else to do) and I'm continually amazed by some of the comments and ideas. You guys are always thinking up new ways to do stuff or improve things.

I do have one question if you guys could dumb it down for me a notch or two.....

Where's this plug-in browser thingy?

I tried the script console browse but it doesn't really give you a menu location.
Plugin Browser does but it seems some just do not get loaded or something.

Draconian you can find it under the help menu item.

In the SCRIPT procedure browser (a bit different from what used by O ,see my first message)you may search for "type"

try "Decor "

or if you remember Author name search for "Author"

There it is! - doesn't help me to find it in the menus though.



Seems like it would just be a lot easier to have its own dedicated script browser (just for SCM's)

Would be not easier open the script with the notepad ?

Not for someone new to Gimp.I was thinking along the lines of other new users looking for scripts they download.Usually an author will explain where the filter will be located, but not always.Most folks do not even dare open a script for fear of messing it up.
So i was thinking if a new user downloads and throws a scm in their script folder and can not find it...
Script Finder V-1.0 to the rescue!

ScriptFinder is a cool idea
If possible a "Script & Plugin Finder V-1.0" would be even better, also plugin developers sometimes hide their plugins in the most weird places

Thanks Rod. It obviously never occurred to me to check the help menu.

There is a lot in the help menu.If you install adobe 8bf plugins you will find a list of the ones you installed there also.
When in doubt check help.

OOPSS i reinstalled my poor attempt to script fu "find help" that should add to the help menu (clickable ) link to the best gimp Help Forum
as for GC help forum , the gimptalk help forum (i wonder if keep it since most of time offline) ,gug , the gimp user group on flickr, and the gimp mail list browser on gimpusers

And ...i discovered that the copy i upladed in the registry was the draft, while the good one seems lost in my storage HD innards

well i started this message planning a shameless plug to the script ,and then turn out that script need to be fixed
( i fear easier to rewrite the draft than trace the good copy lost in a 1TB storage disk )