[Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sven Neumann<sven at gimp.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:32 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>
>> When using the old, unnamed register() parameters, if you leave
>> 'params' empty, the main plug-in function still receives two
>> parameters - the current image and drawable.  Using the new, named
>> register() parameters does not seem to do this anymore.
>>
>> No big deal really, but I thought it odd that the behavior would be different.
>
> That is exactly the odd quirks mode for backward compatibility that I
> mentioned. If you use the old register() API, then parameters are added
> for you depending on the menu location your script is registering to. As
> that is hard to understand and frequently leads to automatically added
> parameters that the script does not actually need, this behavior was
> changed. It is still there, for backward compatibility, if you use the
> old API though.

OK - thanks for clarifying that.  I had no idea that the automatic
parameters varied based on menu location.

Chris