Re: [gimpwin-users] Running GIMP from Command Line Under Windoze

Hi Tor -

I hadn't even remotely considered the possibility of re-directing the output
to a file.  Thanks!  That's a great tip.  Sure wish I had thought of that.
Might be nice to document that somewhere, along with the following tidbit...

In the meanwhile, Jernej Simoncic send me a small utility that allows one to
very easily turn the console window back on for a Win 32 non-console
application.  I applied this to the gimp executable, and it works great.  I
am now seeing all of the messages.  Some of them related to script-fu aren't
very descriptive, but they are sure a whole heck of a lot better than
nothing at all!

Anyway, thanks once again for your reply.

Regards,
s/KAM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tor Lillqvist" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 5:21 PM
Subject: [gimpwin-dev] [gimpwin-users] Running GIMP from Command Line Under
Windoze


> Kevin Myers writes:
>  > then all is fine and gimp starts up in interactive mode.  But if I try:
>  > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" -v
>  >
>  > or
>  > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" --verbose --console-messages
>  >
>  > or
>  > "d:\program files\gimp\bin\gimp" -n --no-data -b
'(script-fu-log-process
>  > "image018test.tif" "")' '(gimp-quit)'
>  >
>  > nothing seems to happen with any of these command lines.  Any ideas
what the
>  > problem may be???
>
> gimp.exe is a windowing application. It's stdout and stderr are thus
> by default not opened, and the output from --verbose goes
> nowhere. Redirect its output to a file (gimp >gimp.log), or pipe to
> more (gimp | more).
>
> Yes, there could be code in GIMP to check if --verbose or some other
> switch that causes output to stdout is present, and in that case call
> AllocConsole(). Hmm, except that I am not sure whether doing only that
> would help, probably one would also need to freopen stdout to "CON:" or
> something after calling AllocConsole()?)
>
> Earlier I used to build GIMP as a console application, and then it
> closed the console unless it was asked to be verbose. (This meant that
> there was a console window that opened up when you started the GIMP,
> but which immediately closed. A bit confusing.)
>
> --tml
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