Air Bubbles Rel4[modified for 2.10]

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:14 pm **(#21)**

Graechan,
sorry to tell you there is a problem with the interface to G'MIC.
Do the following:
Test1:
-verify that either G'MIC has not been used yet or that has been used with output mode default "in place"
-run your Bubble script (dft values)
-result is OK
Test2:
-open an image
-apply to that image any G'MIC function setting output to "new image"
-run your Bubble script (dft values)
-result is two different images, one with text, the second with background
I attach here the results:

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Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:26 pm **(#22)**

Dinasset the command for GMIC in the gimp PDB only allows me to set the 'Input Mode' the output mode seems to take whatever has been set by the user, and if this is not the 'default(inplace)' problems always arise, maybe David could explain better

(plug-in-gmic run-mode image drawable input command)

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:41 pm **(#23)**

'O' if you had selected 'keep layers' you would also find it saved a couple of channels to help modify the image with selections e.t.c.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:15 am **(#24)**

Thank you, Graechan!

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

Ha you are right Graechan, maybe I should add a new argument to specify the output mode as well...
But I'm afraid doing this will break all existing scripts that are using gmic...
Is there a way to have 'optional' arguments in script-fu ?

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:12 am **(#26)**

Ronounours wrote:

Ha you are right Graechan, maybe I should add a new argument to specify the output mode as well...
But I'm afraid doing this will break all existing scripts that are using gmic...
Is there a way to have 'optional' arguments in script-fu ?

David there is no way the script can change what gmic does with the output but if there was a way for any new filter to have the option to select the output mode then we could set this in scripts, this would have no effect on existing scripts that are using gmic, and would only change the plugin for the duration it is used

Or if you could enforce the plugin to always use the 'In place(default)' output mode then we could effect the output in a script e.g. if output 'New Image' was required we could create a new Image and copy the input layer to the new image then use the new image and its copied layer as the gmic input

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:29 am **(#27)**

Just to let you all know I finally :gaah

got my Gmic in 2.6 to work, so I can now say the current file I uploaded today is good for 2.6 and 2.8

; Rel 0.01.1 - Bugfix to 2.6 call whch left the varible threshold undeclared

see initial post for Rel 1.1

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:43 am **(#28)**

Graechan wrote:

Ronounours wrote:

Ha you are right Graechan, maybe I should add a new argument to specify the output mode as well...
But I'm afraid doing this will break all existing scripts that are using gmic...
Is there a way to have 'optional' arguments in script-fu ?

David there is no way the script can change what gmic does with the output but if there was a way for any new filter to have the option to select the output mode then we could set this in scripts, this would have no effect on existing scripts that are using gmic, and would only change the plugin for the duration it is used

Or if you could enforce the plugin to always use the 'In place(default)' output mode then we could effect the output in a script e.g. if output 'New Image' was required we could create a new Image and copy the input layer to the new image then use the new image and its copied layer as the gmic input

David,
I guess it's important to find a solution for this problem if you want G'MIC be easily callable from inside a GIMP script.
If you know there are many scripts already calling G'MIC, a new interface call to set up all G'MIC parameters before making use of the current interface call could be a solution, as well as Graechan proposal to enforce "in place" inside the current interface.
If you know (or reasonably think) that currently the GIMP scripts calling G'MIC are only a few, well, an "incompatibility" could not be a drama (also GIMP itself creates from time to time incompatibilities in script functions)

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:06 am **(#29)**

Dinasset David has informed me that as from 1-5-6-1 the Gmic plugin will enforce the output option of 'In place(default)'

this I think is the best outcome as it should not effect any existing scripts and would allow the gimp script to set the output option

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:49 am **(#30)**

OK, very good! Thanks a lot to David for the implementation, to Graechan for the info

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:59 pm **(#31)**

Uploaded Rel2 with alpha to Logo menu entry and lots of fun

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12856

Thanks a heap Graechen; knew you would add this feature soon enough. lol

Oregonian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:01 am **(#33)**

Eye of newt, hair of toad, tooth of frog, heheheh.

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:08 am **(#34)**

'O' love your pot of withes brew (It didn't take you long to discover that every-time you run the script you get a slightly different arrangement of bubbles)