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List:       gimp-developer
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-developer] command output from script-fu-server
From:       Ioan Calin Borcoman <iborco () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-25 8:02:22
Message-ID: 526922190905250102r64b55276q157f64a41918ae24 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I've filed the bug as 583778 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583778).

Cheers.

Ionutz

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Ioan Calin Borcoman <iborco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's hope it gets applied. I'll make a bug report and attach the patch to it.
>
> My code uses something like this to send the data:
>
>   def send(self, msg):
>      l = len(msg)
>      raw = 'G' + struct.pack('H%ds' % l, socket.htons(l), msg)
>      self.socket.send(raw)
>
> To receive the data, I use something like:
>      ...
>      raw = self.socket.recv(4)
>      ...
>      l = socket.ntohs(struct.unpack('H', raw[2:4])[0])
>      raw = self.socket.recv(int(l))
>
> Worked ok until now. Very similar with your code :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ionutz
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Niels Giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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