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Image Magick GUI

Saif Ahmed edited this page Mar 26, 2018 · 6 revisions

This is an experimental program, not a replacement for GIMP ;). Essentially Image::Magick is required for many of the back-ends. It also is a useful graphical library that is available for many platforms, hence the usefulness as a demo. But it has well over 100 functions, most of which are rather complicated. It is possible to make a true interface to this but inevitably would be mammoth task, and takes away from the principle focus of GUIDeFATE which is to make the development of GUI application easy. This application does allow the user to enter commands that are executed via eval() so is a security risk

How it works

We harvest a table of functions from a helpful website. We take that table and convert it into a part of script used to relate the function name, to a description and a list pf parameters. To ease things we classify the functions into a type (e.g. Colour, distortions etc) . We use the hash to create a menu, and then to generate a Message Box to inform the user what the function does, and then paste the function and parameters list to build up a script that can be applied to the

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