JAVA programmer? (and Win-DomMap, and some GIMP) - Page 5

Leif_- · #41 February 25th, 2004, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Looks like you got it to work. And I thank you. Some of the GIMPers will be able to make use of it.

Unfortunately it still wont quite fill my needs because Im hard-headed and dont load GUIs on my servers. Everything I do with the maps so far uses no console display. WHen I run your new script I get much farther than before but I get this...
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
even though Im not asking for a displayed finish. I even deleted the display line out of the script completely and it gave me that error

Yes, I believe that is a flaw with Gimp - it actually needs to open its menu window, even when just doing batch-processing; so it needs an X display just to start. Terribly annoying.

PhilD · #42 February 25th, 2004, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
I've finally managed to get the "blur and bump-map" script to work with Gimp's batch mode

Looks like you got it to work. And I thank you. Some of the GIMPers will be able to make use of it.

Unfortunately it still wont quite fill my needs because Im hard-headed and dont load GUIs on my servers. Everything I do with the maps so far uses no console display. WHen I run your new script I get much farther than before but I get this...
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
even though Im not asking for a displayed finish. I even deleted the display line out of the script completely and it gave me that error

Have you tried using the -i switch? My gimp (Version 1.2.3) says it will not cause the program to use its graphical interface. I just tried, and it seems to work (it's possible that, even when not launching an interface, gimp still requires an X server or something like that, though).

Leif_- · #43 February 25th, 2004, 06:25 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Have you tried using the -i switch? My gimp (Version 1.2.3) says it will not cause the program to use its graphical interface. I just tried, and it seems to work (it's possible that, even when not launching an interface, gimp still requires an X server or something like that, though).

Yes, I looked at that now. Gimp still needs an X server for font rendering (even though we don't do any font rendering in this script.)

Gandalf Parker · #44 February 25th, 2004, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Have you tried using the -i switch? My gimp (Version 1.2.3) says it will not cause the program to use its graphical interface.

Good shot. Sounded good but it didnt work. Rats, I thought we had it that time.

If I had more willpower I would reload Debian with all the GUI stuff and just force myself not to get addicted to it. But I know Id fail and lessen my abilities as a server admin.

[ February 25, 2004, 16:54: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

PhilD · #45 February 25th, 2004, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Have you tried using the -i switch? My gimp (Version 1.2.3) says it will not cause the program to use its graphical interface.

Good shot. Sounded good but it didnt work. Rats, I thought we had it that time.

If I had more willpower I would reload Debian with all the GUI stuff and just force myself not to get addicted to it. But I know Id fail and lessen my abilities as a server admin.

Too bad, really. Me, I like the result, and I'll probably add a switch to dommap to launch this script on the .tga... ugly kludge, but if the maps look better...

Leif_- · #46 February 25th, 2004, 07:16 PM

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Originally posted by PhilD:
Too bad, really. Me, I like the result, and I'll probably add a switch to dommap to launch this script on the .tga... ugly kludge, but if the maps look better...

I'm working on a perl script right now to do batch production of maps processed with this script. I'll put it up somewhere when it's ready.

Leif_- · #47 February 25th, 2004, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
I'm working on a perl script right now to do batch production of maps processed with this script. I'll put it up somewhere when it's ready.

Okay, I'm finished with the perl script now. It basically lets you create a number of maps with dommap, prettifies them with the Gimp script, zips up the maps in individual zip-files, generates thumbnails and builds a (very basic) web-page where the maps can be downloaded from. (The web-page thing can be turned off)

The script can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/dominions.html and an example web-page with a handfull of generated maps on it can be found at http://home.Online.no/~rmoldskr/Domi...nion_maps.html

Torvak · #48 February 25th, 2004, 09:37 PM

Magnificent

Gandalf Parker · #49 February 25th, 2004, 10:01 PM

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Originally posted by Leif_-:
Okay, I'm finished with the perl script now. It basically lets you create a number of maps with dommap, prettifies them with the Gimp script, zips up the maps in individual zip-files, generates thumbnails and builds a (very basic) web-page where the maps can be downloaded from. (The web-page thing can be turned off)

Wow, you are good. Sounds like what I have running (minus the gimp part) but you got there alot faster than I did. I will definetly take a look at it.

Leif_- · #50 February 25th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Unfortunately it still wont quite fill my needs because Im hard-headed and dont load GUIs on my servers. Everything I do with the maps so far uses no console display.

I came across something here http://gug.sunsite.dk/tutorials/tomcat17/ about using virtual frame-buffers to allow Gimp to do batch processing from a text console. As far as I understand, you'd have to install X Window on the machine to get the frame-buffer, but you wouldn't have to actually start X Window as such.

Would that help you?