Old managers additives (with a little modification)

MareroQ · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 11:09 am **(#1)**

GURM is very necessary.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/13473#comment-14590

Talk about version 0.8 GURM
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4357

But I prefer - available from the context menu with auto refresh.
The idea for Brush Manager 2.00 by Sean Bogie
In annex (Basic manager additives.zip)) - to try out - modified managers :

BRUSH
GRADIENTS
FONTS
PALETTES
PATTERNS

All you need - to edit: lines 7 and 8

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

Very interesting approach to loading the resource files.

Maybe i will check this out.

Thanks MareroQ.

mechatherium · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 8:46 pm **(#3)**

Quote:

All you need - to edit: lines 7 and 8

Edit what? How?

More detail, please.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 9:57 pm **(#4)**

Download Notepad++ 6.1.2
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.2.html
Open the file in the program and edit lines 7 and 8
Edit:
ACTIVE_DIR=r"C:\Documents and Settings\Marek\.gimp-2.8\brushes" #<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory to hold active sets, select Writable in Preferences)
INSTALL_DIR=r"C:\Documents and Settings\Marek\.gimp-2.8\brushes_alternate"#<<<-----SET ME<<<----- (Directory where you place your sets - in subdirectories)
Type in your path:
ACTIVE_DIR=r"C:\Documents and Settings\Marek\.gimp-2.8 = r"C:\Documents and Settings\~Your Name~\.gimp~Your version~

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 10:12 pm **(#5)**

The menu item is there in my brush file, but when I select the plugin menu doen't appear.

ACTIVE_DIR=r"F:\Gimp-2.8-32bit-Partha\pref_1\brushes"

INSTALL_DIR=r"F:\Resouces\brushes"

Are my paths correct

MareroQ · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 10:28 pm **(#6)**

I'm using these plugins out of laziness - a very long time (2010).
I repeat - edit paths..

Graechan · **Posted:** Fri May 25, 2012 10:41 pm **(#7)**

I have edited my paths to

ACTIVE_DIR=r"F:\Gimp-2.8-32bit-Partha\pref_1\brushes"
INSTALL_DIR=r"F:\Resouces\brushes"

Is there something I have missed

Graechan · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 3:14 am **(#8)**

Duh I only missed this 'brushes_alternate' in my install directory, now works fine and is a great way to approach the resources problem. So good would you be able to do one for scripts :mrgreen:

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 11:44 am **(#9)**

For my master.

You have a choice:
1.The subdirectories
2. Pack (*. zip)

Graechan · **Posted:** Sat May 26, 2012 7:04 pm **(#10)**

Do the resources for the script manager have to be in ZIP files.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

This is pretty cool.
I like being able to choose just 2 maybe 3 scripts, and not a whole directory.Can one like scripts be written for brushes and patterns MareroQ?
I would definitely use them then.

Also can you just load 1-3 scripts at one time (not zipped) ?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

A few questions/requests if you will.
1) Scripts load without loading entire directory
2) Same with all the other resources if possible.
3) Theme...how did you do it MareroQ?

mine are all drab colored.Do they need to be placed directly in lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins folder for the theme to work?

Also both GURM and MrQ files seem to work side by side with no conflicts.

Graechan · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:12 am **(#13)**

If you have more than one gimp e.g. 2.6 and 2.8 the one resources file only works per gimp and that means maintaining 2 lots of resources, I don't know if Gurn is the same.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 12:46 am **(#14)**

ad 1 i 2 - In Python is probably not possible - only directories or zip.
ad. 3 - You must change the gtkrc on .gtkrc-2.0 and add the c: \ Documents and Settings \ Yur Name \

Graechan · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:35 am **(#15)**

With gurn mutiple Gimp installs can use the same resource files without interacting but this does not work with the manager. Do you have more than one Gimp install.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 1:57 am **(#16)**

Old topic - more mixing (Cybia)
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1894

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

MareroQ wrote:

ad 1 i 2 - In Python is probably not possible - only directories or zip.
ad. 3 - You must change the gtkrc on .gtkrc-2.0 and add the c: \ Documents and Settings \ Yur Name \

What about Portable? That has no gtkrc-2.0 file.

Graechan are you talking to me?
I have just Gimp Portable installed in my F drive.

I have removed GURM altogether. Now i just use MareroQ's scripts. :bigthup

It's really too bad you can't just load a few scripts , brushes, or patterns that you need at the moment. Oh well.

@ MareroQ - So if i zip all my SCM scripts they will open 1 at a time?
Will that work for patterns and brushes too?

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2613

Most of the above is Windows based, so a quick test in a linux machine, LinuxMint Debian Edition and the plugin works fine, both with folders and with zip files. The zip option looks like a good deal to me. I have a large collection of "not used" scripts that I swap in and out manually as required, so a bit of work saved there.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

I found a nice open src zip batch archiver.This will take all the scm in one folder and batch zip them with the same name in the same folder.Then you just need to move them to your manager folder.

I think i am going to go through all my patterns and probably zip them too.This way you can load 1 or however many of a resource you need at the time.
Download 7zip batch archiver here (windows)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzipbc/

Graechan · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 7:14 pm **(#20)**

MareroQ or Rod does anyone know why the manager using the same resouces will not work on a 2.6 and 2.8 install properly becouse when I select a brush pack in 2.6 then switch to 2.8 and open brush manager it shows the brush pack as selected but thehey are not loaded and they will not load unless I deselect and then open the manager again and reselect.