Am 09.04.2016 um 15:22 schrieb Christian Kanzian: > Hi, > > I just read your message at gmane. > > I've unsubscribed the mailing list due to time reasons. Anyway, Jereme is > quite busy and may not answer. > >> 1. How can I change the size of the entry fields? Is this possibility >> already implemented? If yes, where can I find the documentation? > doc can be found here: http://www.darktable.org/lua-api/index.html.php > > or you can build the pdf with > $cd ./build && make make darktable-lua-api > > like the usermanual. What's written there is possible. If it is not there you > simple can't do it.
That's one of the problems: Of course I try to learn from the documentation (especially the Lua API documentation), but it is not really very detailed and for me it is hard to understand where the limits are. E.g., some problems may be possible to circumvent or may be default Lua and therefore not documented in the API docs. Does your answer mean that everything I try to achieve is impossible at the moment? What extensions are planned, is it likely that these things become possible? I ask because I have a bunch of ideas of new features/modules for workflow speed-up that would perfectly suit the idea of Lua integration, all of them being little helpers of low complexity. And I am willing to work on their realization, but without a profound programming/informatics background I will need some answers from time to time. As you might have concluded the idea behind the module I asked this question for is a speed-tagging interface, e.g. to tag peoples names on subsequent images - press a for people|family|adam, r for people|friends|rose, u for people|unknown etc. E.g., a wedding photographer could use this to tag the bridal pair and their relatives extremely fast. A portrait photographer could tag poses etc. For me it is mainly intended for tagging friends and family in my private photos. In the module, tags are defined and keyboard shortcuts are assigned and if activated, these shortcuts temporarily overwrite the general ones. A special shortcut is assigned for “use tags from last picture” and all shortcuts work in toggle mode. Sets of tags can be stored with the preset infrastructure (not yet available from Lua) or another mechanism to save them for later use. The number of tags in the set can be set in a wide range, e.g. from 1 to 26. That's only one of some ideas I have that would be ideal for Lua realization if the infrastructure is available. Especially, since my C knowledge is below zero ;-) and the additions may not be for everybody. Other ideas I had are a 2nd instance of the collect module that works with predefined (user-defined) selection criteria which can be toggled on and off by buttons and don't mess up the “recently used collections”. These would be effective only for the current collection. Things as “all processed but not yet exported images”, “all images with red or yellow but not green labels” which means for me all unprocessed or partially processed images. Another idea would be a statistics module which counts criteria as number of colour labelled images or images with certain tags in the current collection, e.g. 28 red, 7 yellow, 15 green, which would mean for me that I have a lot of work ahead. As you can see, I have some ideas that make sense at least for me and now I want to work on their realization, but I am not able to assess if this is already feasible. Thanks for your answer and best regards Chris ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
