Scripting

[Casper Boemann]

On Monday 06 June 2005 17:32, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Indeed. One of the success factors for the Gimp has been the easy
> scriptability using scheme, python or perl, making it really easy to add
> fun stuff. Does the Gimp or Photoshop have a macro recording facility, by
> the way?
Photoshop 6 has a recorder, but not to a script. The recorded "action" can 
then be edited in a graphical editor.

Photoshop also allows external scripts to call functions within photoshop.

> In any case, there is not much difference between recording a 
> sequence of commands and writing a script, if the recorder uses the macro
> language.
Well, its an easy way to create a script. And not all users are programmers.

> Especially because if the sequence of actions becomes complexer 
> than "rotate, scale to 400x400, sharpen" people will make mistakes and will
> want to remove the wrong actions from the recorded script.
That is always the risk. The nice feature would be that undo would also remove 
the action from the script.

> And then we 
> certainly need some integrated script editor.
Why? Would launching the user's prefered editor not be enough.

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best regards / venlig hilsen
Casper Boemann