From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu May 9 13:06:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11973 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 13:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11948 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01167; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:54 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma001160; Thu May 9 15:08:42 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA24232; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:09:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA22122; Thu, 9 May 1996 15:08:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199605092008.PAA22122@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcl interface to GIMP? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 May 1996 12:04:55 PDT." <199605081904.MAA01069@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 15:08:36 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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