Last I checked (Darktable 2.6), the Lua API provided an interface to change the on-screen collection arbitrarily, but not to use the collection queries independently of what was shown on screen.
-- August Schwerdfeger aug...@schwerdfeger.name On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:28 PM Niranjan Rao <nhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > You probably tried this and were not happy, but just want to confirm. > Have you checked collect images in lighttable view? It does allow you to > search on various aspects and essentially does the same SQL others are > talking about - but from the safety of darktable. Once you have > selection, you can operate normally as you would otherwise do it. For > example you can easily specify tag="this" and ISO=that from the GUI. > > I have not used 3.0, but I doubt if they have taken this kind of > functionality away. > > Without knowing LUA scripts, most likely this kind functionality is > exposed somewhere in the scripts. > > Regards, > > Niranjan > On 1/21/20 6:11 PM, Greg Minshall wrote: > > but, it appears that, at least absent a GUI (and this would be a command > > line script), there isn't a way of creating a new (ephemeral or > > permanent) collection, applying filters to it, etc. > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
