----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Myers" <KevinMyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "gimp users" <gimp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: [Gimp-user] Threshold Crop Plug-in > Hello, > > I would like to develop (or preferably locate) a tool somewhat similar to > the default gimp autocrop, but with this difference: It would allow you to > specify a threshold range in some manner for the border that is to be > cropped. If it handles RGB that would be fine, but in my case all that I > really care about is grayscale. > > I've searched the gimp registry and didn't see anything similar, so I'm > considering writing one of my own by using the existing autocrop plug-in as > a starting point. I've done some preliminary looking at the code and have > written pseudo-code for the primary changes that would be needed. However, > I can't seem to locate any docs on what you actually need in order to > compile a plug-in... > > In autocrop libgimp is the only external library that is used, and I don't > think that I need anything else either, at least for a simple initial > version with hardcoded threshold values and no user interface. > > I would think that I can easily locate and download the header file(s) for > libgimp. But I'm an inexperienced C developer, and don't know what else if > anything that I may need. I will be mucking with tiff files, but since gimp > itself will be doing all of the actual file interaction, I don't think that > I should need libtiff or anything like that, right? Also, I don't need the > libgimp source other than the header files, do I? > > Finally, I will be doing my work under Windows. I have several compilers > available, including a couple of versions of Microsoft Visual C++. I don't > want my plug-in to be dependent on Cygwin libraries or anything like that, > so I don't plan to use Cygwin for this development. By default (because I > don't know any better) I was planning to MSVC++ 6.0 to write and compile the > plug-in. Will this work? Are there any other tools that I am likely to > need in order to develop this extremely simple plug-in? > > After compiling, I believe that all I should need to do to run the plug-in > is to locate it in the proper gimp subdirectory on my machine, right? > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > Kevin M. > Round Rock, Texas > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
