Thanks for the info guys. Yes, I am already developing on Linux (I am a long time linux user, I haven't touched Windows since win98). I'll start launching Gimp from the terminal and watching for output there On Apr 4, 2012 9:01 AM, "Ragnar Brynjúlfsson" <rag...@ragtag.net> wrote:
> I'm assuming Jon is working on Windows. On Linux you can just start > gimp from a terminal and get all the output you need, but when I was > porting a plug-in I wrote to Windows, there was no info in the command > line, and I had to resort to printing stuff to the gimp error console. > Anyone know how to do this on windows. > > One solution is, of course, to just install Linux (on a physical or > virtual machine) and do the development on that. > > Ragnar > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwid...@mpc.com.br> > wrote: > > On 3 April 2012 08:01, Jon Decker <jondecke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I have a lot of work into my first large plugin. One thing that really > >> slows my progress is the lack of any kind of debugging or work flow. > For > >> example, if I make a syntax error, the plugin will just silently fail, > or > >> fail to appear in the menu. I receive no erros or hints as to where the > >> error occured. I normally have to commentoput code line-by-line and > rerun > >> the plugin until I find the offending line of code. I've wasted hours > at a > >> time finding small little bugs like this. > > > > to detect syntax errors, just try to run your plug-ina s a normal > > Python program - > > Syntax errors will be flagged normally - i the program is well formed, > > it will fail with an import error > > when trying to import gimp or gimpfu > > > > As fro runtime erros, just watch the normal error output of GIMP on > > the terminal. > > (the good news is taht for fixing these errors, you just have to > > re-run the plugin from inside GIMP< > > no need to reinstall or relaod anything). > > > > js > > -><- > > > > > >> > >> Is there a way to have gimp relay python errors? > >> > >> I have also noticed that the python plugins will not run outside of gimp > >> with the standard python interpreter (can't find the gimp imports). > >> > >> Is there something I'm missing? Is this the workflow that everybody > uses? > >> Any hints or tips? > >> > >> > >> thanks! > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gimp-developer-list mailing list > >> gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-developer-list mailing list > > gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list >
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