Hi, tino.schwarze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tino Schwarze) writes: > > > Hmmm... what about embedding a real image inside the preview? > > > > I don't understand this sentence. Could you elaborate on this? > > I mean: Why create proxies and stuff? Just create an appropiate > GimpImage and let the plugin poke on that. I'm not very familar with the > GIMP internals, but I guess we don't need to re-invent the wheel there. > Using a downscaled version of the actual image allows the plugin to > perform _any_ operation it can do on the original image. If there was a > layer-removal plugin, the removal of a layer could be previewed. plug-ins usually only work on a single drawable. Creating a copy of the whole image would be overkill in almost all cases. Since we want a zoomable preview, we'd even have to redo the image copy every time the zoom changes. Doing a real drawable copy would probably be a reasonable approach since the gimp core could do the scaling for us. Salut, Sven
