GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648090
Possible failure of "Repeat Last" with filters using drawables as maps
Last modified: 2018-05-24 12:59:54 UTC
When the most recently executed plug-in is a filter requiring one or more drawables as maps, if you eliminate, after the execution of the plug-in, at least one of the drawables which was selected on its last settings, then the "Repeat Last" command will fail, by returning various error messages. Here is a list of the filters affected by this bug: under the section "Light and Shadow": "Lighting Effects" under the section "Combine": "Depth Merge" "Filmstrip" under the section "Artistic": "Oilify" "Van Gogh" (LIC) under the section "Map": "Bump Map" "Displace" "Warp" Referring, for instance, to the "Warp" filter, the problem I have just reported can be reproduced by following these steps: 1) create a new image; 2) duplicate the layer named "Background", so as to get a second layer named "Background copy"; 3) launch the "Warp" filter through 'Filters -> Map -> Warp...' ; 4) as a displacement map, select the "Background" layer in the drop-down list provided; 5) execute the filter; 6) remove the "Background" layer from the image; 7) run 'Filters -> Repeat "Warp"'. As a result, several error messages will be displayed, some of which redirected to 'stderr'. Unlike the afore-mentioned plug-ins, there is a filter that, while using drawables as maps too, however seems always to work properly when invoking it through the "Repeat Last" command, even in the specific case described above: it is the "Flame" filter (under the 'Render -> Nature' submenu), which is fitted with the "Colormap" option, allowing to exploit the colors of any drawable currently open in the GIMP session. So I think it might be useful to refer to the source code of this plug-in in order to devise a patch capable to fix this bug, which involves all the other filters of the similar kind.
That needs to be fixed plug-in by plug-in by checking the last used drawable IDs for validity.
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