type="hidden" for <param> on INX file

[Aurium]

Hi,

I'm doing the InkMoz (the Bridge from Inkscape to Mozilla), to enable the
creation of javascript extensions for Inkscape and using the Gecko's DOM
implementation and other functionalities.
http://www.colivre.coop.br/bin/view/Aurium/InkMoz

So... I create the runInkMoz.py that will do little things and call the XUL
aplication that enables what i said.

What i need to say is: The extension code can't be called directly by the
Inkscape. There is no way to do it with an javascript file. :-/ ...and that
is not a Inkscape problem. ;-)

So... The Inkscape must call the InkMoz (this is a work for Inkscape) and
it call the file.js to run inside itself.

But... The InkMoz must be on the Inkscape extension directory and the js
file too.
I can't do this:
<command reldir="extensions">runInkMoz.py file.js</command>
I know... is more dificult to parse that.
Well... you can add the type="hidden" for <param> like that:
<param name="occult" type="hidden">my static arg value</param>
...
<command reldir="extensions">runInkMoz.py</command>
and the runInkMoz.py will know what it need with a non user accessible
parameter.

All bridges will be like that. The inkscape call the bridge, and it call
the extension code file.

The type="hidden" can be useful for a lot of things and very necessary for
that.

Thanks

[Marcin Floryan (mfloryan)]

The type is used to denote the type of value passed in the parameter but you can now create parameters that are hidden from the GUI and I believe this should fix the problem. Use the "gui-hidden" attribute on the param element.

[Marcin Floryan (mfloryan)]

See inkscape_help_manual.inx for examples

[zuencap (zuencap)]

Please add some explanation about this attribute to wiki.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Already documented in the XML shema (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/INX_extension_descriptor_format).
Some explanations added in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/INX_Parameters