Announcing ArrowsCreator-0.3

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi,
For those who have adopted GIMP-2.8.14 on Linux or Windows this release candidate ArrowsCreator-0.3
takes advantage of the brush correction in it, being more flexible at the price of not working for GIMP < 2.8.14 .
Among other changes there is new shape head control for style: "Arrow with disk joint".

Merry Christmas to all.

Permit linux-root install for user group and use a background colour for coloured text in UI. (2016-12-09)
Add a patch for a missing case, of head length greater than arrow length, for arrow style 6.
(2017/02/25)

Odinbc · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:16 pm **(#2)**

Merry Christmas and Thank you, I'll give it a go.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:19 pm **(#3)**

Thank you.

There are two things I don't like about it:
1. Makes a new image Menu item: Extensions. Why not put it in Script-Fu/Tools?

2. It makes a layer group. I'd rather it just used layers.

It seems to work fine. A bit of a tutorial with it would be nice.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4736

Oregonian wrote:

Thank you.

There are two things I don't like about it:
1. Makes a new image Menu item: Extensions. Why not put it in Script-Fu/Tools?

2. It makes a layer group. I'd rather it just used layers.

It seems to work fine. A bit of a tutorial with it would be nice.
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Script-fu/Tools? There is no such menu in standard Gimp. IMHO the logical place for this kind of script is Filters/Render.

Graechan · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2014 8:08 pm **(#5)**

Oregonian wrote:

Thank you.

There are two things I don't like about it:
1. Makes a new image Menu item: Extensions. Why not put it in Script-Fu/Tools?

2. It makes a layer group. I'd rather it just used layers.

It seems to work fine. A bit of a tutorial with it would be nice.
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'O' I changed my location to Python-Fu/Tools, you will where to change it at the bottom of the file

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menu = "<Image>"+_("/Python-Fu/Tools"),

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

@Odinbc
You're welcome. Much appreciated.

@Oregonian
Welcome and tanks for the comments.

1) I'm mildly surprise at this comment since the configuration part of this plug-in (GIMP's parlance)) was to put everybody who had menu preference on an about equal footing! It's more than GIMP gives, but it's a complex issue, it should not be too easy and not so complicate (for example imagine you want an alphabetical arrangement).
If you do nothing the status-quo seems OK, it's not.

2) It complicates things but offers some advantages like to erase the work made by the plug-in (remember no 'history'): erase the group. Also some info like the creation date is in that layer group parasite.
Now that most of that work is done I'm not eager to change.

As for the tutorial, like many script writer I don't enjoy writing tutorial, compounded with my rusty English.
So a photo will illustrate why I consider it more flexible than before.

Without exiting the plug-in, the size of the 'star' brush was controlled with the plug-in brush slider.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Very nice!

Thanks for the new update.

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi Rod,
For the update you're welcome.

This is a work in progress, but I don't plan to add new capability, if any, before we see GIMP-2.10 .
So a candidate release after it was running reasonably well.

Thanks for trying it and the screen capture.

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:24 pm **(#9)**

rob_brz1 should ArrowsCreator-0.3 be able to run on 2-8-15

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:35 am **(#10)**

I hope someone with python skills can help me fix this, because the .py file does not know what to do with 2.8.15 and fails

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Graechan wrote:

I hope someone with python skills can help me fix this, because the .py file does not know what to do with 2.8.15 and fails

2.8.15? I didn't know that was released yet.

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi Graechan,
If you refer to the samj's build. When I tried it, no. Then tried the simpler python plug-in included with it as user to no avail, got a little farther as administrator but could not complete.
So I believe it's an install problem not strictly a python language one.

Edit: works with GIMP-2.9, the last partha's build of December 21.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 4:06 pm **(#13)**

Rod and rob_brz1 it's a portable build of 2.8.14 I just got from a friend,ArrowsCreator-0.2 works but not 03, note (gimp-version) = ("2.8.15")

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi Graechan,
If ArrowsCreator-0.2 works well it means that version has not the new brush behaviour of my GIMP 2.8.14 .
The "Take note ..." message is from ArrowsCreator-0.3 because 'gimp.version' has return (2,8,6);
that test is at the line 83 of the code.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 5:36 pm **(#15)**

it does have the 2.8.14 brush behaviour, I can grow and shrink brushes at will are you sure it's not looking for 2.8.14 instead of 2.8.14 and above
I have ran a script-fu that has to differentiate between 2.8.14 and below and it functions OK

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi Graechan,
Then if you want to run AC-0.3, I suggest to comment out line 83 to 86 by putting a '#' at the beginning of each line.

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...
if version < (2, 8, 14) : 
    mssgBox("Take note that GIMP => 2.8.14 is needed. Your is %s .\n"%str(version)\
    +"Should remove %s from this folder."%fi)
    sys.exit(1)
...

It look for below that's the reason of the message, my theory is that build use an older gimp.py module.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2014 7:14 pm **(#17)**

Way to go, that did the trick All is OK now thank you for your assistance. :jumpclap

yes I,m using 32bit py because the new py wouldn't work in portable yet

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Happy to assist you Graechan.

Quote:

it does have the 2.8.14 brush behaviour, I can grow and shrink brushes at will are you sure it's not looking for 2.8.14 instead of 2.8.14 and above
I have ran a script-fu that has to differentiate between 2.8.14 and below and it functions OK

The info in the last line got me to consider of using the 'pdb.gimp_version()' of script-fu instead of 'gimp.version' from pygimp the first return (string) is less convenient then the second (tuple) but the first seems to have a more direct relationship with gimp. If it works?

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Dec 25, 2014 7:50 pm **(#19)**

Rob_brz1 using Gimps PDB to determine the version may be more accurate when checking for a 'Gimp' feature in this case

rob_brz1 · **Joined:** Jul 13, 2014 **Posts:** 109

Hi,

Graechan wrote:

Rob_brz1 using Gimps PDB to determine the version may be more accurate when checking for a 'Gimp' feature in this case

That was the idea, since this was put there to lessen frustration, but it did not work. A plug-in fail to register with 'pdb.gimp_version()' there.
A possibility is that the PDB is not accessible at that stage (pre-registration)!