Basic Processing Shortcut

[Jack Harvey]

Ahhh I found my mistake in typing my script and it now works.  One small glitch is I was using workspace number 3 so it loads them on #3.  Anyway to load them to #1 or even to all workspaces Juan?

Anyway this is great!

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Jack - I think that has been an outstanding request for Juan

I want to be able to save 'a selection' of Process Icons to a 'Process Icon File'

And then I want to be able to reload them 'to a Workspace', merged as necessary (in reality, the 'Load' process should DEFAULT to 'merge' - to protect the existing icons on all workspaces)

And I want to be able to include iconised images as part of any selection (the re-load GUI should simply tell me if an image is now 'missing', and let me try and find it as necessary, perhaps even 'globally' for the remainder of the 'load' operation, if I have been shunting my data around my hard drive(s)).

And any iconised images should be saved WITH all defined previews - on request. And the same should go for mask references.

I hate not being able to define a bunch of previews to define a background selection for preview aggregator, and have no way of 'storing' this action for future replay - say for a tutorial video, for example.

Rambling thoughts, as usual . . . .

Cheers,

[RobF2]

I wish there was a way of saving a collection of process icons, perhaps even as some sort of floating toolbar.  Its just so convenient to have the one you use all the time on hand ready to drag into action over an image.  

Its getting to be a drag though (no pun intended  ) having to go back and tweak startup.scp and point it back at my process icon collection for every new version.  I don't like to retain too many settingts as versions advance in case I miss out on something.  Is there any easy way to keep my favourite icons within reach?  (I'm forever having to search for this thread currently!)

[Jules]

Worked a treat with the process icons during startup, thanks!

Julian

[sreilly]

I had this working in version 1.69 but now when I use the processing console to open "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/startup.scp" I get error messages that the "no such file exist :C:/Program" and "No such file exist on the local filesystem: C;/Windows/system32/Files/PixInsight/bin/startup.scp".

I've tried just using "open $PXI_COREDIR/startup.scp" and open C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/startup.scp from the Processing Console with no luck at all. This is a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system. Any ideas? I do have the Icons saved as "favorites" and they load using the "Load Process Icons" command but would like them loaded at start up as I had before.

[sleshin]

Steve,

See this thread: http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3089.0

Steve

[sreilly]

Thanks Steve. That got the editor open and I was able to save the changes but now it tells me the file Fav.xpsm doesn't exist in the C:/Windows/system32/Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm folder. I didn't point to that path . The file is saved as C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm and that's the path I told the startup file to point to as seen below:

#endif   // !__NO_PJSR_VARIABLES

.open C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// EOF startup.scp - Released 2011/05/29 10:29:00 UTC

Thanks for the additional information. And yes, Windows UAC is a royal pain in the butt........

[sleshin]

I believe you need the " " here as well:

.open "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm"

See if that works.

Steve

[sreilly]

Steve,

The eliminated the error messages but I got the following:

Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/startup.scp

".open C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm"

*** Error: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/bin/startup.scp, line 158: Command not found: ".open C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm"

Interestingly enough, the file loads just fine using the "Load Process Icons" command from both this location and a backup I have under the Users folder.

Thanks again. I'll get to the bottom of this yet.

[sleshin]

Put the first " after .open, not before. Like this:

.open "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/Fav.xpsm"

[sreilly]

You the man Steve!

Got it thanks.