Daniel Carrera (dcarrera@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > 3) How hard will it be to port current script-language bindings to > > > the new Gimp? > > > > I think that the basic infrastructure for calling PDB-Functions > > basically is the same as in earlier Gimp Versions. Some PDB-Functions > > have been renamed so you might need to fiddle a bit. > > What is a PDB function? Is that what people use to make bindings? Yes, and to write plugins etc - except that some plugin-authors are probably not aware of that fact. Gimp maintains a Procedural DataBase with various functions. Libgimp has some functions to access this Databasea (search, execute) plus a lot of wrappers around this functions. Basically for a language binding you have to use these pdb-access functions to map the pdb functions into the target language. http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/libgimp/libgimp-gimpproceduraldb.html > > > Where can I learn more about making such bindings? > > > > Look at the existing bindings and the libgimp documentation. > > The reason why I ask is that I can't find the documentation. > Could you plese tell me where the documentation is? The libgimp documentation gets build when you compile the Gimp from CVS - not sure about the tarballs. A more or less current version is available at http://developer.gimp.org. > > I am not really familiar with FilmGimp's Frame Manager, so I am not > > really sure what stuff would be necessary to do. However, Gimp > > Plugins/Extensions can do a lot and I think there is a chance to do > > this that way. > > The main thing is that it can step through images. > When you click on a different image it doesn't open a new window with the > image, rather it replaces the image in the already-open window by the one > you selected. In this way, you can step through a sequence of images. > > Is there a libgimp function that would let me change the image in a window > that is already open? I think gimp-displays-reconnect is what you are looking for. Bye, Simon -- Simon.Budig@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/
