Hello all,

I started investigating this about a year ago, but got busy and abandoned it.
But I'm determined to get this done and have the finished script to share.

Scenario - I have a camera that I am using to take timelapse photos.
My camera is indoors, looking through a window that is hard to get at from the outside (and therefore hard to clean).

Which means that each photo has a few dirt spots in the same areas.

I am writing a script that will accept XY co-ords of dirt spots, then copy small patches from neighbouring areas and paste them over the dark dirt spots. Essentially, a heal tool.

The script so far is below, I am new at Script-Fu and cannot get a a simple function like delete/erase/clear to be performed on the image. I have tried many ways, trying to declare selections and drawables in different ways, etc...

I can be more detailed in my script attempts.
But first, can someone please help me out with erasing a selection?

(gimp-edit-clear (car(gimp-image-get-active-drawable openedImage)))
tried straightforward syntax like this.... I am missing something.

(set! drawableOfImage (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer openedImage)))
Don't know if this is deprecated.

How to erase a selection?
Once I get that figured, I should be able to work out more myself.
And produce a working script to share later on :-)

Thanks.


; ##################################
;
; this script is supposed to open an image,
; select a small feathered ellipse,
; then erase the area.
; And remove the "dirty flag" which indicates the opened work is unsaved.
; This makes it quicker to close the file file and run the script again.
;

(define (script-fu-timelapse1)

(let* (

(openedImage (car (gimp-file-load RUN-INTERACTIVE "C:\\img0001.jpg" "C:\\img0001.jpg")))
(drawableOfImage (car (gimp-image-get-active-layer openedImage)))
)

(gimp-display-new openedImage) ;display image in GIMP UI

(gimp-ellipse-select drawableOfImage 690 80 26 26 CHANNEL-OP-REPLACE 1 1 10) ;select an ellipse, feathered

(gimp-edit-clear openedImage) ;clear selected area of image.... doesn't work

;(gimp-edit-clear (car (gimp-image-get-active-drawable openedImage))) ;this doesn't work either

(gimp-image-clean-all image) ;removes dirty, work not saved flag

) ;let
) ;define


; ===================================

(script-fu-register
"script-fu-timelapse1" ;func name
"timelapse start" ;menu label
"window cleaner" ;description
"me" ;author
"copyleft 2012" ;copyright notice
"creation date" ;date created
"" ;image type that the script works on

SF-IMAGE ; operates on an open image
SF-DRAWABLE ; on an open image, refers to active layer
)

(script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-timelapse1" "<Image>/File/Foobar/Timelapse1")

; ##################################
; END OF FILE

This is not correct, "selections" are made on an image basis, the layer does not matter.

This is not correct. You want to clear the drawable, not the image*. As you do in the following:

Assuming you have not commented out that line in your script (and you fix the selection), this should work.


* An "image" in GIMP parlance is merely a list of properties (width, height, name, type, etc) and links which point to the actual graphical elements of the image (layers, masks, and selections/channels -- i.e., "drawables"). You never "paint" or "draw" on the image per se, you always paint (or erase, or filter, or otherwise change the graphical content) on a "drawable" that belongs to the image.