Nicely written. A couple of quick comments. First, since your script raises a dialog, there should be ellipses following the command in the menu ("Rasterize..."). Second, when you calculate your selection bounds (x1,y1,x2, and y2), you should take into account the boundaries of the drawable (perhaps using 'gimp-drawable-mask-intersect' or 'gimp-drawable-mask-bounds').

Yes, it is merely a matter of convention, and let's the user know whether the command will present a dialog expecting further input.

Also as a minor point with regard to convention, the pop-up blurb for a command should describe what running the command will do, not what the command does. For example, your Rasterize command will "Make the active Selection or Image look blocky" (not "Makes the ..."). This is admittedly a bit nit-picky but for consistency your script should strive to follow the same convention as used throughout the rest of the GIMP menus.


A word of caution on 'gimp-drawable-mask-bounds', the first value returned will be TRUE if there is selection and that selected region does not overlap the layer. In this situation, the coordinates returned will be the boundaries of the layer (relative to the layer). Unless you test for this condition, your script may wrongly assume the entire layer is selected even if none of it is.

This behavior of 'gimp-drawable-mask-bounds' was considered to be a bug, but it was not discovered until it was too late (and fixing it would have broken too many existing scripts). The developers chose to introduce a new procedure, 'gimp-drawable-mask-intersect', which returns FALSE if there is a selection but that selection does not overlap the layer. In general, 'gimp-drawable-mask-intersect' is preferable (note, however, that it returns the selection's width and height, not the lower and right boundary).

Interesting and pleasant results. I made the blocks 50 and the blur factor 1. Thanks for the new script, Graechan!



Original image here.

Thank's for the update Graechan, can I say your a kamikaze; in a good way? It's either that or your like the Energizer Bunny, you keep going and going until it's the best

Thank you Odin I Just like scripts without bugs of any type and some of Gimps PDB calls come with strange behaviors that only become evident once you use them in a script, when Salgoode comes back from his break he is going to write a description on the PDB calls I've worked with.