On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 10:36 -0500, Christopher Brown wrote:
> I don't have SVN commit privileges, so Ted Gould has just been
> uploading the code I've produced for me. The final code, though, has
> not made it into SVN yet because Ted is away from home for a few
> days.

I plan on working on this this week.  Who knows, LA may just melt this
week though :)

> I took convolve out because I couldn't figure out how it's supposed to
> be used. The codefiles are still in the source, but they're not loaded
> into the menu.

I think this might still be useful.  I'm a DSP freak though -- so it may
be to just me ;)

> 1. You're right, flop ought to be taken out.
> 2. & 3. I'll ask Ted about this -- I don't know how to make strings
> translatable. I think that C++ effects should be able to use the same
> format of .inx files as the Python/Perl/Bash effects, but I wasn't
> able to load external effect definitions for my effects.

For the INX files that are built into the codebase you'll need a _()
surrounding the strings to be translated.

> 4. Like convolve, I couldn't figure out what Threshold was supposed to
> do. Even using ImageMagick via the command line "convert" I couldn't
> make sense of it.

Take it out then?  Anyone object?  Chris, do you think it makes sense to
e-mail the Imagemagick lists on this?

> 6. All the effects use the same extension framework, so if this is
> agreed on, it will be a matter of minutes to go through the
> paramcolor.cpp, paramint.cpp, paramfloat.cpp etc. files and add a
> colon after the parameter labels.

This is an interesting point.  Should we do this globally and take it
out of the INX files?  Would that be easier or harder to translate?
Does every language use ":"?