Michael Terry wrote: > If I could access the image manipulation functions through a plug-in that > remained resident, that would work, but a plug-in is unloaded once its > method (whether query or run) is finished (if I understand correctly). I've done a couple of things like this. The simpler is a system for doing some common batch processing of images. Try looking at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html for the code. It requests lots of operations from the Gimp. Note that it processes the images and returns once the OK button is pressed - if you don't call gtk_main_quit() (or whatever it is), your plugin keeps going. -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time