Partha's GIMP 2.7.3 Portable for Windows

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:00 am **(#1)**

Installed it last night on a USB flash drive and have been playing with it. The single window mode is nice. Mine is the 64-bit version. One thing that would be nice is a note about minimum flash drive size on the download page. It may be there and I missed it.

I was pleased to see when writing text that I had the choice of bold, underline, Italics, and strike through in a small options box window in the image window. It's a bit tricky to move around - it wants to follow the mouse cursor. Font sizing, choice, letter and line spacing are all available in the little options window in the image window.

Hopefully others will be adding to this.

http://partha.com/articles/May012011.html

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

SINGLE WINDOW MODE-
I was happy to see they fixed the single window mode saving on relaunch.It used to not save your window position after closing.
Now it works very nicely.

THEMES-
Nice to see themes availability added to this compile.However i would like to see it actually installed with the compile.Perhaps with a menu item to select one in Preferences.

PYTHON-
I see no reason why Python-Fu can not be added to the installer.The size is not much bigger than without it it seems to me.
This would take away so many headaches with installing it after.
Many folks do not want to un-install and then re-install Gimp again and again.

TEXT TOOL-
I for one am still not happy with the new text tool.Why not just make it call your own platforms text tool and use it?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:20 am **(#3)**

Rod wrote:

PYTHON-
I see no reason why Python-Fu can not be added to the installer.The size is not much bigger than without it it seems to me.
This would take away so many headaches with installing it after.
Many folks do not want to un-install and then re-install Gimp again and again.

Python-Fu was included in my version, part of the installer, and I tried it out with ofnuts path-waves-0.1.py plugin. I got this error message but it went ahead and worked anyway. I'm using it on Win7 64-bit.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

O, I get those same errors in all the plug-ins but they still come up. I have the same version as you and also run on Windows 7 (x64) bit

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

I was referring to adding it to stable versions of Gimp with it's installer like Partha did O.

Sorry should have explained that better.

:ninja

Also the python scripts are deprecated because of the new UI in Gimp-2.7.3 i believe.
They run but you will get deprecation errors.You will also get them with added scripts.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

I love the single window mode in 2.7.3 :jumpclap

woo hoo.

hated the 3 separate windows.... :coolthup

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:09 pm **(#7)**

I'd venture to guess that Python-Fu will be a part of the installer on v2.8

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

I sure hope so.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:37 pm **(#9)**

Does anyone have trouble with script dialog windows coming up behind the image window? If I have it configured to a single window, I can't even get to it.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Now that you mention it, YES! I ran into this problem with python scripts as well.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

I believe that the "deprecated" messages are a compile option which is left "On" in development versions but removed for stable versions. Maybe you can convince Partha to compile a version with that stuff disabled. Unless there is a Gimp startup parameter for this. Actually there is one, it seems:

gimp --help

says:

-c, --console-messages Send messages to console instead of using a dialog
--pdb-compat-mode=<mode> PDB compatibility mode (off|on|warn)

If the --pdb-compat-mode doesn't work as I think it does, the other one can make the message dialogs a bit less bothersome.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

ofnuts wrote:

I believe that the "deprecated" messages are a compile option which is left "On" in development versions but removed for stable versions. Maybe you can convince Partha to compile a version with that stuff disabled. Unless there is a Gimp startup parameter for this. Actually there is one, it seems:

gimp --help

says:

-c, --console-messages Send messages to console instead of using a dialog
--pdb-compat-mode=<mode> PDB compatibility mode (off|on|warn)

If the --pdb-compat-mode doesn't work as I think it does, the other one can make the message dialogs a bit less bothersome.

Can that be written into a gimprc, or another rc file to force the error dialogs to open in the error console window?

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

Rod: Now that would be totally awesome if it could. Heh. Do people ever press these kind of questions to developers without annoying them?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

mahvin wrote:

Rod: Now that would be totally awesome if it could. Heh. Do people ever press these kind of questions to developers without annoying them?

I always seem to annoy them even on IRC so i stopped asking .. lol
I seem to get more answers here from our very own Gimp Chat scripting team.

Or just playing with settings myself.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

In my Gimp, errors go to the Gimp error console and I have no specific startup parameters. But I have it open permanently (docked in a tab). Maybe that's all there is to it...

paynekj · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:45 am **(#16)**

To confirm what ofnuts has said, in my experience with the error console open all the errors and messages go to the error console.

It's also possible to script where gimp-message sends it's messages using gimp-message-set-handler to MESSAGE-BOX, CONSOLE or ERROR-CONSOLE, although on M$ Windows I'm not sure where the console messages go as there isn't a console.

gimprc doesn't seem to have a relevant entry, so I think it's down to command line option.

Kevin

update:
the command line option overrides anything the script tries to do - and I can get a console on Windows by starting from the command line with the --verbose option

MareroQ · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:02 am **(#17)**

Ofnuts is right. Thanks.
It's a simple solution:
activate Error Console - the error will go down there - instead in a new window.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

That seems to be the answer...just keep the error window dialog open always.I now have it tabbed.

Thanks guys.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Are you saying to keep it open on the desktop. I minimize mine, does that still work with it minimized?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16170

Yes it should as long as it's open.It shouldn't matter if it's docked or not.