Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 15:08:36 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcl interface to GIMP? Message-ID: <199605092008.PAA22122@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 12:04:55 PDT." <199605081904.MAA01069@rah.star-gate.com>
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Yesterday I looked through the gimp-list archives and it looks like those guys want to use guile for the extension language. I'd much prefer tcl, lisp is about the most un-intuitive language in the world even more so than assembler ;-). They want the same functionality that you do, they just appear to be mis-directed. I'd like to get gimp to spit out frames in batch style so that I can roll them into an mpeg. I built one with the whirl filter, but it's clumsy. Or were you thinking of writing a tcl program to call the plug-in directly? I believe that the plug-ins use a shared-memory and pipe protocol. I don't think that it'd be too tough to hack up a perl interface to that, but it'd be hackery. BTW, I'm not trying to dig up a big language war here, just a few observations... eric. "Amancio Hasty Jr." writes: > > >Anyone upto writing a tcl interface for GIMP? > >The reason that I am thinking is to be able to write meta filters so >with one single command we could create cut out text or customizable >filters . For instance , a given filter could be presented with a set >of options which could be easily modified at run-time. If we do this >we will have one hell of an image processing program. The latest >version of tcl supports sockets connection and it should be >"a piece of cacke" to create a routine to listen and handle >the socket communications. > >There is other stuff like converting GIMP to use XIE instead of >shared memory which will make the program more user friendly at the >system level. > >http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp/ > > Tnks, > Amancio > > > -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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