GIMP Version: 2.8.10
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64 Debian-based
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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Is there possibility to interact with user from script-fu?

For example, in case of process negative film scan i want to invert image, rotate it (this i already can do with script-fu), then i want to select area to crop image (each image has own crop region) -- and this is reason of trouble. I do not know offset, width and height parameters for gimp-image-crop, and i could not find how do this.

Next i wish to call curve dialog (not simply gimp-curves-explicit), make curve manually and then apply this. And this is my second trouble. How can i invoke curve dialog?

If you have an active selection before running script you can use



and there doesn't seem to be a way to call curves so that user can manually adjust, (even if the function had a parameter as INTERACTIVE or not i was never successful at calling INTERACTIVE )

Thank you. This is a good solution to the problem. Though single solution.

I wonder if the GIMP devs would consider adding the RUN-INTERACTIVE RUN NONINTERACTIVE parameters to this PDB procedure? It would be nice to be able to call it INTERACTIVE within a script. Seems it wouldn't be too hard to add the parameter to the c file before compile.


For the life of me i can't find the curves file c src though.

You could if you wish call it with pre loaded vectors.

There are basically three types of filters that can affect a GIMP image: tools, plug-ins, and scripts. Tools can only be run interactively from either the Toolbox or the Menus -- it is not possible for a script or plug-in to run a tool interactively.

Plug-ins can be run interactively from other plug-ins or from scripts, though it is somewhat rare for this to happen (Difference Clouds is one script that does it).

Scripts can only be run interactively from plug-ins -- a script can NOT run another script interactively. (And I have never encountered a script being run interactively from a plug-in.)

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When I have a sequence of actions that I wish to run repeatedly but that require execution of interactive operations, I find it useful to assign keyboard shortcuts to each of the actions. For your example, I would assign the following keys:

1. Invert
2. Rotate
3. Crop
4. Levels

The sequence can then be easily executed by pressing the keys in order (and providing the intermediate interactive input as necessary).

Yes, i do like this (execute sequence by keyboard), not by hotkeys, but by menu quick access keys:
1) Alt+c v -- invert
2) Alt+i t c -- rotate (or 'w' or '1')
3) Alt+c c -- curves (or 'l' for levels)
but would optimize process. Anyway, exercises in the script-fu have benefited. Even partial automation greatly helped. Thank you all for explanations.

It should also be possible to use an image parasite as persistent storage to track the state of actions.

If you want a script that does A,B,C in order every time, use the persistent storage to track which state was just completed, and then perform the next action, and do nothing if the last action

Not near a computer to test, however....

-Rob A>