[Gimp-developer] command output from script-fu-server

[Niels Giesen]

> Hi,
>
> I have attached a small patch for script-fu-server that makes the
> server return to the clients the output of the commands executed, just
> like the script-fu-console does.
>
> Is the patch ok? Any chance to apply it the mainline? Should I make a
> bug-report and attach the patch to it?
>
> Thanx,
>
> Ionutz

This is great stuff. If we had had this a year ago, it would have
saved me a *lot* of ugly hacking about developing the client side
gimp-mode for Emacs. (If you wanna know, this was done by
wrapping the code to be sent
inside scheme code that wrote back to a file, with stuff such as
tracing and the various write and display functions not working).
The other implementation I did to interact with GIMP was with GIMP as
a subprocess as
a batch program; this is quite crude and does not work under that other OS
I have to use at work.

Attached is a small python program (my first) I wrote this morning that gives
a simple REPL interface to the script-fu server based on your
patch, you might want to use that for testing if your patch works. So
far it is going strong.

I very much like to see this one implemented, and am working on
rewriting parts of gimp-mode for Emacs to use this facility. Even
though the script-fu server apparently was not intended for actual
use, its usefulness at least for developing script-fu inside an editor
of choice
is greatly enhanced with these additions.

It is looking promising.

Regards,
Niels.

-- 
http://niels.kicks-ass.org
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