Should Corel Establish a PSP Scripting Group?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:35 pm

One of our users, JoeB, has asked if a poll could be held on this question. This is his original post:

Postby JoeB on Fri May 01, 2015 4:47 am

I was just wondering how many people would be interested in Corel creating a Paint Shop Pro Scripting group on the board which, like the old Jasc PSP Usenet group, would be dedicated to discussions, questions, etc., regarding scripting AND be a place where people could post scripts that might be useful to others and even request specific scripts (or help creating specific scripts), that would further automate their workflow.

I don't know how to - or if you can - create a poll on this board so thought I'd just ask people to post their opinions as to whether they think it would be useful. If people think it could be, than I could request that Corel create it.

I should add that I used PSP 9 for many years and have just moved to X7 Ultimate so am just learning it. Also, it has been some years since I created scripts because I had PSP optimized for my workflow many years ago also, so am quite rusty with scripting at this time. But having just moved to X7, and finding that some useful scripts in PSP9 wouldn't work (because of changes in commands, etc.), I started looking for scripts that would work for X7. I ran across JSJ's Nik plugins scripts purely by accident browsing the board, and only found the Paste and Mover script (Gary Barton's older script didn't work quite right in X7) by doing a Google search. So I thought it would be convenient if there was one place to go for this sort of thing.

Anyway, please feel free to comment if you'd like to!

Regards,

JoeB

Post by **Jean-Luc** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:05 pm

It is not difficult for Corel to create a "Script section" on this Web Board.
This will permit to discover if many users are interested...

Such a group already exists on Cnews Corel's server but with zero messages (see attached).
Scrapbooking is also an empty group on the server.
Photography is the biggest group.

You may be interested by Suzshook page:
http://suzsplace.com/8scripts.htm
and Cassel is also a great script writer :
http://creationcassel.com/store/index.p ... ex&cPath=7

Jean-Luc

JoeB · Post by **JoeB** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:13 pm

Jean-Luc wrote:It is not difficult for Corel to create a "Script section" on this Web Board.
This will permit to discover if many users are interested...

Jean-Luc

Thanks - I have already discovered those other sites. As to a scripting group on this board, are you going to click the "Yes" button at the top of this thread to vote for it? TIA!

Regards,

JoeB

Post by **Kathy_9** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:38 pm

Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't appear to be a way to vote on the poll; nothing is click-able.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:04 pm

Do you see the Yes/No options with a circle you click on?

JoeB · Post by **JoeB** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:16 pm

Ken Berry wrote:Do you see the Yes/No options with a circle you click on?

As you know, I voted. But the problem for Kathy and JeanLuc might be that, when I voted, I had to guess what would work. I saw Yes and No lines, and somewhat to the right a red square with a zero in it, which I assumed was supposed to show the number of votes. When I moused over it I didn't get any indication that it was a check box of any sort, and being a zero with a red background it didn't look at all like an option button that you usually click to select (i.e., put a black dot in it to show it is selected). I just clicked on it anyway and nothing happened. Then I refreshed the page and my vote showed up with 100% for Yes.

So at the moment the way it shows up is not at all intuitive, nor does it automatically update without knowing that you have to refresh the page to see that your vote actually recorded. Normally I would expect a circle to click and then, once it had the black dot in the selected circle, there would be a Submit or submit Vote button.

So that could be the problem people are having.

Regards,

JoeB

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:01 am

That's very curious. What I see is this:

And in fact, I don't know you voted. That 1 showing there is my own vote cast immediately after I created the poll. And updating the page doesn't change it or show more votes.

Post by **Kathy_9** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:03 am

Ken - Here's a screenshot of what I see. I have moused over the entire section and my cursor does not change to indicate a clickable field (visible or otherwise).

JoeB · Post by **JoeB** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:05 am

I see the same thing. I assumed that the one vote immediately after I refreshed the page was mine because it came right after my refresh, but I guess it was yours. So the poll isn't working right at the moment. Hope you can get it fixed. Thanks!

Regards,

JoeB

Post by **Kathy_9** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:08 am

I just looked at your screenshot Ken and that is so strange that I'm not seeing the same thing. I'm using Firefox 37.0.2 and I just tried IE 11 and I still don't see it.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:09 am

See if you can see the voting circles now. For some unknown reason, Voting in Polls was deselected in the actions Registered Users could take...

JoeB · Post by **JoeB** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:17 am

Ken Berry wrote:See if you can see the voting circles now. For some unknown reason, Voting in Polls was deselected in the actions Registered Users could take...

OK, it worked this time, and updated the votes to 2 votes with my new vote. Now, with the update and my vote, I get the page looking like it did previously, without the ability to cast a yes or no vote, which I presume is the way it's supposed to work. Thanks!

Regards,

JoeB

Post by **Kathy_9** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:27 am

Looks good now Ken - thanks.

JoeB · Post by **JoeB** » Sat May 09, 2015 3:45 am

Well, I see that there are 11votes for a scripting group (10 if you don't count Ken's) with zero against, which to me seems quite a good number given that most posters are new with problems. I suspect the voters are more experienced users, those most into scripts and also more regular viewers of this board. I would therefore ask that the sub-forum be created for those who are (a) actively interested in scripting, (b) those who aren't really that active scripters but have occasional scripting questions, and (c), simply as a good organizational way to keep these specific issues in one place AND as a place where people can search for scripts that people are willing to share. JMHO.

EDIT: 15 votes!

christinedr · Post by **christinedr** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:41 am

The area of scripting would benefit many. However, even with some programming skills, Python as implemented in PSPScripts does not come to me as intuitive. The Python tutorials I found on line are not tremendously helpful as there are apparently many variants of the language. I finally arrived at the desired results from much searching, applying some awk-like statements in a monkey-see, monkey-do method.

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