[Gimp-user] Batch - delete selection

[David Gowers]

Hi xave,

On Dec 11, 2007 11:11 PM, xave <xave at xave.org> wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I've got several images to put on the web and all have to be modified
> in the same way to blend with the website appearance. Being tired of
> clicking the same menu items several times, I'm trying to create a
> batch to do the job, but as it's my first one, I'm running into
> problems, can someone point me to what I'm doing wrong ?
>
> What I'd like to do : select all, shrink the selection, rectangle
> round the selection, feather the selection, invert the selection,
> delete the selection, then save the file.
>
> Here is my unfinished script (I'm adding one step at a time), I tried
> several ways to delete the selection to no avail, it always give me a
> "experienced a execution error" :
>
>
> (define (test2 filename)
>
>         (let*
>                 (
>                         (image (car (gimp-file-load RUN-NONINTERACTIVE filename filename)))
>           )
>                 (gimp-selection-all     image)
>                 (gimp-selection-shrink  image 3)
>                 (let*
>                         (
>                                 (selection (car (gimp-image-get-selection image)))
>                         )
>                         (script-fu-selection-rounded-rectangle  RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image selection 5)
>                 )
>
>                 (gimp-selection-feather image 5)
>                 (gimp-selection-invert  image)
>
>
>                 ; everything seems to run until I add the following :
>                 (let*
>                         (
>                                 (selection (car (gimp-image-get-selection image)))
>                         )
>                         (gimp-drawable-delete   selection)

Deleting the selection is a VERY BAD thing to do!
You probably want to delete the selected pixels instead.
That is what gimp-edit-clear is for.

(gimp-edit-clear drawable)

where drawable is the layer you want to clear pixels from.

>                 )
>
>         )
> )
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
> xave
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