I'm trying to write a Gimp script that will perform an operation on all of the files in a given directory, but I can't figure out how to get a listing of all the files in a given directory from within Gimp. What little documentation I have been able to find makes reference to an 'open-dir-stream' function, but it doesn't look like Gimp 2.6's ( Read more... )

With the current project I am on, the build consists of a couple of steps:
1) Shutdown Tomcat
2) Run an ant script that does the actual compiling and putting things where they go
3) Startup Tomcat

(When I want to deploy changes that I just made to relatively static things, like Javascript files, I can just do step two)

( Cut for excessive geekery )

In Windows it's possible through something called the COM (Common Object Model?) and ActiveX to have programs that you write control other programs. For example, I can write a Java application that can open, modify, and save a Word document in Word (it starts up an instance of Word and then tells it what to do on my behalf ( Read more... )