Gimp::ScriptFu::Client acts as a source filter in a Scheme script that uses Text::Template to preprocess any embedded Perl fragments contained between { } brackets before sending the resulting Scheme to a Gimp Script-Fu server. Each Perl fragment may or may not produce a Scheme fragment.
The Scheme script becomes a standalone client application.
This permits using Perl for getting parameters from the real world or for generating complex Scheme expressions, that would be more difficult or impossible with plain Scheme.
It also makes it possible to do Perlish things with Gimp if you can't do the compiler stuff for Gimp/Gimp::Fu for your OS. All recent Gimp versions include the Script-Fu (Scheme) server.
Tested with Gimp 2.13.12 and Gimp 2.13.14, compiled with MinGW
on Win XP, Perl 5.8.8
Feb 20, 2007
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
Run Gimp with something like:
gimp-x.x -b "(plug-in-script-fu-server 1 10008 \"\")" or start Gimp and start the server from the menu Xtns/Script-Fu/Start Server.
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
IO::Socket;
Getopt::Long;
Text::Template;
Filter::Simple;
AUTHOR
Alan Stewart <astewart1@cox.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (c) 2007 Alan Stewart. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.