[Sekhmet]

Hi everyone,

I'm on the verge of starting the sorting of my holidays' pictures and I'd like to add some infos and a signing in addition to my usual borders.
To not have to do "Open as layers" each and every time, I've "hijacked" the border script and added this

;Open file
(set! layer (car(gimp-file-load-layer 0
			img
			"text.xcf")))

;Add Layer
(gimp-image-add-layer img layer 0)

So far it works but I'd don't know how to specify a path to the file (like "C:\texte.xcf") just so I don't have to copy the xcf to each pictures folder (not that it'd be such a burden but...)

Thanks in advance for your answers

[Roan]

If you will always be using the same text.xcf file you can hard code the full path.

(set! layer (car(gimp-file-load-layer 0
img
"C:\texte.xcf"))) ; or whatever the full path is.


If you want to be able to pick the file used when you run the script.

Add a pathvariable like textpath to the functions arguments.

In the script-fu-register function of the script add either:
SF-FILENAME "Path to text file" "C:\text.xcf" ; creates button to the file dialog chooser
or
SF-STRING "Path to text file" "C:\text.xcf" ; simple string input

Using one of the above will give you an extra option in the border scripts start up dialog box.

In the main function add a textpath variable to its arguments.

[Sekhmet]

Ok, thank you very much for your answer

[Sekhmet]

Ok, my problem is solved thanks to you

Just a heads-up if someone is looking for the same thing I was, the path needs a double backslash : "C:\\text.xcf"

[RobA]

Sekhmet, on 02 July 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

Ok, my problem is solved thanks to you

Just a heads-up if someone is looking for the same thing I was, the path needs a double backslash : "C:\\text.xcf"

When running under windows.

-Rob A>

[ofnuts]

RobA, on 30 July 2012 - 05:42 PM, said:

Sekhmet, on 02 July 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

Ok, my problem is solved thanks to you

Just a heads-up if someone is looking for the same thing I was, the path needs a double backslash : "C:\\text.xcf"

When running under windows.

-Rob A>

Not really.. the "\\" is because he wanted to use "\" and this should be escaped and this has more to do with Scheme (or C/Python/Java...) syntax for string literals than with Windows. And Windows will happily work with "/" as a filename separator in file specifications ("C:/text.xcf").

[RobA]

ofnuts, on 30 July 2012 - 07:20 PM, said:

RobA, on 30 July 2012 - 05:42 PM, said:

Sekhmet, on 02 July 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

Ok, my problem is solved thanks to you

Just a heads-up if someone is looking for the same thing I was, the path needs a double backslash : "C:\\text.xcf"

When running under windows.

-Rob A>

Not really.. the "\\" is because he wanted to use "\" and this should be escaped and this has more to do with Scheme (or C/Python/Java...) syntax for string literals than with Windows. And Windows will happily work with "/" as a filename separator in file specifications ("C:/text.xcf").

Learn something new every day!

Thanks,

-Rob A>