.NET versions of Fred Weinhaus' scripts

[whugemann]

A while ago, I cloned the repository https://github.com/dlemstra/ImageMagick.FredsScripts.NET in order to draw inspiration from the code (which I often did). Today, I tried to compile them for the first time and could not find a main program, just classes. Am I getting something wrong? (Excuse me if this is a dumb question.)

[dlemstra]

This is because the classes in that project are helper classes that you can use in your own project. Users of those scripts will need to add their own main program that uses the script.

[dlemstra]

The reason I chose the approach that you get a file through a NuGet package is that this allows updates of the script. And I did not provide you with a downloadable application because I don't know how you would want to use the script. But maybe I could create a dotnet tool that allows you to execute all of the scripts with a command line application. But that would probably require some rework to the current scripts. I am not sure if I would want to make that kind of investment. It would be nice to have an application that is cross platform and allows you to execute all the scripts that I have converted to dotnet. But the downside of that is that people will probably not notice that they need to pay for the scripts when they are using them commercially.

[whugemann]

I think that a single code example, how to turn one of the scripts into a console application would do. I guess, such code does exist, as you probably tested the code. I my opinion, a ready-made executable would be contra-productive.
Even I probably could write such a program, i.e. loading the images needed, handing them over to the object representing the script (along with the parameters needed) and writing the result to a file again, keeping everything rudimentary/simple.

[dlemstra]

You are right. You can find examples in the unit tests of the project: https://github.com/dlemstra/ImageMagick.FredsScripts.NET/tree/main/tests

[whugemann]

I already noticed these tests, but even in those folders there is not a single main program, just classes. I searched the entire directory tree for a C# file containing something like 'WriteLine', which would commonly be used in a console interface, but there is no file like that.

[dlemstra]

You should be able to copy the contents of a unit test inside a program.cs file and execute the script.