@Ofnuts
1. Restored you plugin back to original, working fine
2. Decided to add some more resources folders, fonts and patterns.
Both show up in the menu system. Fonts are no problem but nothing shows in the patterns menu unless the .pat (and 1 png) files are zipped. Not a problem for me but any ideas.

Do you have to zip each individual scm file still ofnuts?

Hmm. I'll look into that.

To add selectable sets you add them either as subdirectories of the "*_stored" directories, or as ZIP files in the same directory.

No... but you have to put them in directories under "scripts_stored" (if you are using the standard configuration) and use the manage to activate the directories.

The "selection units" are directories or zip files(*). Your .pat or (.png) has to be put in a subdirectory of the "patterns_stored" directory, or in a zip file (but on Linux, use a directory, this is much faster)

(*) Because as it says on the box, the manager manages collections/sets of add-ons, and not single add-ons.

ofnuts when you refer to "*_stored" directories does that mean I should create a folder named "brushes_stored" and inside place folders containing my brushes, if so can i place "brushes_stored" in my C:\ drive as that would be in my gimp path

Thanks

Yeah - Rod's post 'tweaked' my memory. The fonts came from GURM in folders and showed up straight away. I still find individual zipped scripts extremely useful as a means of reducing clutter. Anything with a theme, ie. fonts, brushes can go in a sub-folder.

Exactly, you can also use Zip files instead of folders



Yes, and then you tell the plugin using the configuration file:

I have to say ofnuts i am still lost here.If i have my own resource folder do i have to edit the python file here at about line #48?


builtinSections={
'all': {
#'enable':'brushes fonts patterns'
'enable':'brushes dynamics fonts gradients palettes patterns scripts',
'addons_active':'{GimpUser}/{type}',
'addons_stored':'{GimpUser}/{type}_storage',
'menu_location':'<{Type}>',
'menu_entry':'{Type} sets...',
'menu_description':'Manage {type} sets...',
'dialog_title':'{Type} sets manager'
},

TO

builtinSections={
'all': {
#'enable':'brushes fonts patterns'
'enable':'brushes dynamics fonts gradients palettes patterns scripts',
'addons_active':'{GimpUser}/{type}',
'addons_stored':'C:\GIMP',
'menu_location':'<{Type}>',
'menu_entry':'{Type} sets...',
'menu_description':'Manage {type} sets...',
'dialog_title':'{Type} sets manager'
},

Of course not... this stuff are the values the plugin uses if they is no config file (or if they aren't defined there).

If you have your own resource folder, you create the config file (addonCollectionManager.ini, in the plugins directory in your profile) and add a section for each of your resource folders. But the plugin assumes (independently of built-in/config file) that your add-ons are organized with a parent directory for each type, i.e. that you have something like:

In which case you can use in the config file:

And the brush manager will let you activate flowers/fruits/balloons independently.

But if you keep the Gimp names for the folders ('brushes", "patterns"...) and you stuff is all kept under C:\Gimp, you can go for the simpler:

Got it i think.
Can SVG gradients be added to the mix?

Thanks ofnuts.

So here is my ini contents (complete).
Is this correct?
My resource folder is C:\GIMP
All my patterns, scripts,gradients,pallettes...ect..ect are under that folder with sub folders for each category.



Sorry to be such a pain, but i really want to make sure i understand everything perfectly clear.

Apparently that doesn't work.
I tried just placing the python file in my plugins folder and all i got was script sets under the help menu.
I clicked on it and it gave me the dialog but no scripts.
This was without the ini file of course.

It should be

(no quotes necessary in the config file...), but the menu_location will only apply to fonts (there is one menu location per type manager).

By default the manager is launched from the right-click menu in each of the add-ons lists (start the brush lists, right click...). The script are an exception: there is list if scripts, but the Help menu contains related stuff (plugin and script browser)).

Your C:\Gimp\scripts should not contain scripts but directories (and/or ZIP files) containing scripts. What the manager dialog displays is really the directories and zip files found in addons_stored.

The answer to this is in the initial post of this topic.

I'll add that as soon as you modify the source, this becomes your script, not mine, so you get to answer yourself the questions you can have about its behavior:).

And what do you call "my menu" above? A specific menu location in Gimp (where?) or the selection dialog from the manager?