Writing gimp plugins in python on windows- how do i debug? where is the output?

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EDITED HEAVILY with some new information (and a bounty)

I am trying to create a plug in in python for gimp. (on windows) this page http://gimpbook.com/scripting/notes.ht

Answer 1

I am a newbie to python, but I would like to give a shout-out, first to winpdb, and then to this comment for integrating winpdb into GIMP. This same procedure works as well for LibreOffice 4.

If I may be allowed to vent a little; I have a moderate amount of experience with Visual Basic, more or less at a hobbiest level, but I decided a few years ago to get into OpenOffice when MicroSoft threatened to abandon VB for the Mac. I don't want to say that VB in OpenOffice was onerous, but the lack of anything resembling an IDE is tedious. Now, with winpdb, I will never be looking back. It's python from here on out, baby.

Steps taken:

-- As suggested by Omid above, I first got winpdb running out of GIMP (relatively painless).

-- I copied the rpdb2.py file to C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4\program\python-core-3.3.3\lib\site-packages\rpdb2.py. (Win 7, LibreOffice 4.4.03)

-- I edited the HelloWorld.py file in C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 4\share\Scripts\python directory (saved in WinPDb_HelloWorld.py to same directory).

# HelloWorld python script for the scripting framework
# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
# License, v. 2.0. blah, blah, blah ...

import rpdb2
#rpdb2.start_embedded_debugger("Your Password Here")    # << DON'T start debugger here.
    # It only gets you lost in the LO python wrapper when debugging.

def HelloWorldPython( ):
    """Prints the string 'Hello World(in Python)' into the current document"""

    # start debugger INSIDE function, where it will be called from LO Macros -- Duh!!
    rpdb2.start_embedded_debugger("YourPasswordHere") 

    #get the doc from the scripting context which is made available to all scripts
    desktop = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDesktop() 
    #... etc., see HelloWorld.py

WinPDb_HelloWorld appears under LibreOffice Macros in the Macro Selector (see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python_as_a_macro_language for more on that).

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