Pausing script to set layer opacity??

[JoeB]

There is a thread about creating a sketch of a portrait here:

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=60048

It's easy enough to record a script to do this and get a result close to what the OP was trying to achieve. However, people making a sketch might have different ideas about the best setting for various layer opacities to achieve their particular needs. Would the only way to be able to stop the script after pasting a layer (so as to be able to change the layer opacity before moving to the next step) be to use Gary Barton's Pause script? Or is there another command that would work?

[LeviFiction]

There is no pausing option in scripts.

Gary's pause script takes a very convoluted route to save your position and come back to that position in the script the next time you run it. If you want the user to be able to play non-stop Gary's pause script is the best option.

Another, less attractive option, is to build your own UI with TkInter and let the users adjust the values in the dialog, on every value update you change the opacity of the layer in script. This way the script never actually stops but the user can still change the opacity.

Personally I think Gary's pause script is easier.

[JoeB]

There is no pausing option in scripts.

Gary's pause script takes a very convoluted route to save your position and come back to that position in the script the next time you run it. If you want the user to be able to play non-stop Gary's pause script is the best option.

Another, less attractive option, is to build your own UI with TkInter and let the users adjust the values in the dialog, on every value update you change the opacity of the layer in script. This way the script never actually stops but the user can still change the opacity.

Personally I think Gary's pause script is easier.

Gary's Pause script is definitely easier for me! I'm just doing this one as a diverting exercise given I made the suggestion in the original thread that a script would be more efficient for someone who might want to do this type of thing fairly often. For fun I have run the script (using the same settings, of course, I used to create the duplicate of the OP's attempt) on a couple of different types of color images with interesting results. Being able to change the opacity where requested could optimize those results.