M$ = shorthand for Microsoft and in those examples Windows 7.

O' thanks Rich.

Rod,
I attach here my arakne folder, should you try to use it replacing what you have on your specific plug-ins folder
who knows...

Graechan, as it shows in my screen shots, I do have the three .py files and the shapes folder in my plug-ins and they are all with permissions. I just don't know of anything else to try.

In Ubuntu I get araknepathshapecreatorshapes.pyc & pnt2d.pyc also.
I don't have the sub-menu either, just the main one, but everything works.

Well, I have taken everything out and even emptied the trash bin and started from scratch at least 3 times now and mine still doesn't show, The Shapes menu shows but not the other one where you can make the shapes. I also don't get the .pyc files anymore, just the .py. Go figure.

Edit:
My Shapes folder with all the shapes inside also have .pyc files for every .py. Can someone please explain how these pyc files get into my folders when I didn't put them there, and what are .pyc files?

I don't know what happened Graechan, but all of a sudden the paths / path creater is now there under filters. I didn't do anything, just came back and there it was. Now, how do I make an arrow, I tried it and I just get a line across the layer. no head on the end.

Molly - if this example can be useful

Thank you very much marcello. I will try that in the morning using your settings. Did you try one using the fill?
I will post mine if it turns out, too tired to do it now.

Go back to post #38 .."It will work on a full canvas but better in a selection
and
No head on the arrow until you set some values, see Marcellos screenshot

Thank you Graechan and Marcello.

Got it figured out. There was indeed a older py arakne-path-shape-creator5 in the plug-ins folder along with the newer version. Removing that version 5 was the key.



Thanks folks!

I made a star then I filled it with color. I made a new layer and made another star but I can't figure out how to get rid of the outlines. I wanted to make a different size star on each layer and fill it will different colors but the outlines stay there.

I wonder if it is possible for the author to add an option to create a selection from the shape and convert it to a path? Not hard to just do it manually but it would be handy to do it all at one time.

New version with star and polygon ellipse available. (6b)
http://registry.gimp.org/node/32128

No need to change (switch) anything it will overwrite the old 6 version.

According to me-is the best plugin - for use vectors in Gimp.