Is there a way to make the animated fire dialog window smaller?
Every time i use it the dialog opens so big i cant see the bottom half of the dialog window.
When i try to resize by dragging the window just moves around.
I can click enter but then i get 20 frames of white bg and well that makes for kind of a boring animation. :\

Why don't the filter dialog windows come with a way to make them smaller if needed?

Do you hold ALT while dragging the menu? That allows you to move the menu entirely, but does not reduce the size of the window.

Yup nothing works.It just allows me to drag the flame dialog window to the top of my screen and no further.
Still not enough to see the entire dialog. :\

Unfortunately, it looks like there's only two options:
- use a smaller font size in GIMP; that should reduce the size of the window
- use a monitor with better vertical resolution.

(Widescreen monitors generally stink for anything except watching movies.)

The odds of receiving assistance with a particular script increase dramatically if a link to said script is provided.

Unfortunately i am running the script on my 800x600 laptop so changing monitors is out of the question.


Sorry Saulgoode here is the code.

Any script that requires that many parameters ought to be rewritten, most likely by splitting it into two or more filters doing the really important parts.

IMHO

Rod, there are two possible approaches I might suggest.

Add the following lines to your .gimp-2.6/gtkrc file:

This will change the font that GIMP uses for text appearing in its interface. You may choose a different font and a different size, of course; but the idea is that by switching to a smaller font, the script's dialog will be smaller.

If you don't wish to change the font (which changes ALL of the text in the interface: menus, dialogs, etc) then you might consider the following changes to Art's script:

At the beginning of the script, right after the line containing "(define (script-fu-fire-anim img", delete the lines containing "foregroundColor", "backgroundColor", and "addBorder". We are going to modify things such that the script uses the current active settings for the FG and BG; and we are also going to let the user specify a border width of "0" to indicate that he does not want a border.

The next block of code you'll see -- after a comment line "Declare the Variables" -- starts with "(let* (". Insert the following lines directly after that line:

Finally, we can remove those three widgets from the dialog interface. Near the end of the file, you will find a line containing '(script-fu-register "script-fu-fire-anim"'. Remove the following lines from that section of code:


And also edit the SF-ADJUSTMENT line that follows to: (note that the second number is "0", not "1")


After making these changes, your new dialog should be just a little bit smaller (hopefully, enough) and appear as shown below:

I think a nice feature would be the ability to create twin columns and/or multiple pages. I find the current single column/single window interface to be somewhat limiting.


Some video drivers allow you setup a virtual viewport, where you scroll a larger resolution window inside your 800x600 viewport. It's not a great solution but I've frequently seen it used on laptops with lower resolution displays.

Rod did you checked your monitor settings ?
Usually the screen size is detected automatically but may be errors, in that case just correct the value

I tell you because happened to me twice, and the effect was even nice so i didn't notice nothing wrong except that forv a few gimp filters

basically the screen size was incorrect bigger then real, but since most of windows don't use all the available space was hard to be noticed but for the fact that a few gimp script and plugin had the okay buttonout of reach, just below the lower part of the screen

reset screen resolution to the correct value solved for me

Sorry for the delay in responding Rod. I packed that script with so many functions, the dialog window got too big. (and as ofnuts suggested, this should probably be split up into 2 or more scripts). I've gotten this same complaint from many people and the only way to resolve it is to change the monitor screen resolution or modify the script. If you use many of the settings with certain values all the time, you could set them as the default and eliminate them from the options at the bottom. If there's something you would like to me help you with as far as the script, please let me know.

Sorry guys i don't know how i missed answering this.
Thanks for your reply FencePost.I was hoping it wasn't just me

And thank you Saulgoode for the script lesson!