Hi,

I have created an extension description which should call a shell script with the current filename.
I have troubles passing the filename.
Here is the description :


What i want is Inkscape to add the current filename at the end of the command.
How can I make this work ?

Thanks

You're asking how to get the filename into the XML description file? I don't think you can do that. The XML description file (.inx) is just a static XML file. On the other hand, if you're asking how to access the filename from within your script, Inkscape should pass it as a regular argument. Try adding some debugging lines to your script that print out the command line arguments. I think you'll see that one of them is the filename. (The filename will look odd because it's a temporary file that Inkscape creates to call the script on.)

I would find it very useful if the script could get the full path to the original file. Perhaps it could be added like a special parameter defined in the inx file? Several people have had problems using one of my effects since they have to input the name of another file, a file that is usually in the same folder as the SVG file, but now the users have to input the full absolute path anyway (or make sure Inkscape has the directory of the SVG file as 'current directory', which seems to be a bit too complicated to many users unfortunately).

Having the filename itself seems a bit less useful as you don't even know for sure that the file has been saved recently, so it may not contain the same things as the input to the file.