Hello GIMP developers: I am in the process of updating my plug-in (p2m-plugin) to work with GIMP 1.3. My GIMP is based on the gimp-1.3.23.tar.bz2 tarball. Getting the plug-in to work with 1.3 has been fairly straightforward, but I was hoping to get your advice on a couple of topics: 1) My plug-in converts images into integrated circuit or printed circuit board layouts. (You might use it to put your company logo on a chip.) Thus it registers file save handlers. On the other hand, it does not make sense to try to convert layouts to images, so there are no corresponding file load handlers. However, after using my plugin to save logo.jpg as logo.cif, for example, the File/Open Recent menu will include an entry for logo.cif. Is there anything my save handler can do to dissuade GIMP from adding logo.cif to this list? 2) I haven't quite figured out how the help system works. I think I have all of the software installed correctly, including the CVS version of gtkhtml2 and all of the stuff mentioned in devel-docs/README.gtkdoc. When I hit the F1 button, the GIMP Help Browser appears but so does a GIMP Message informing me that my gimp-help.xml file is missing. I am further confused by the fact that gimp-plugin-template-1.3.2 installs PREFIX/share/gimp-plugin-template/help/C/gimp-plugin-template.html while the RGB-mixer plug-in (which seems to be based on the gimp-plugin-template) installs its help as PREFIX/share/gimp/1.3/help/C/filters/RGB-mixer.html I notice that the RGB-mixer plug-in has a GTK_STOCK_HELP button in its dialog but none of the standard plug-ins seem to. Is there any particular reason that I should either include or not include a GTK_STOCK_HELP button? Also, I cannot type anything into what appears to be a URL entry area in the GIMP Help Browser. Is this possibly because I have installed something wrong? Could someone please provide a simplified overview of how the help system works and maybe point me towards what I need to read to figure out how to test my plug-in's help pages? I am mainly interested in knowing if I need to provide xml files (I don't know anything about xml but will learn if I have to...) or if I can get away with html, where they really need to be installed, and how to tell the GIMP where to find them. Thanks very much for any help you can offer, and for your work on the GIMP. 1.3.23 is very nice. Steve -- Steve Lipa slipa@xxxxxxxxxxxx gpg fingerprint = 8B68 77D7 9E09 9991 C97E 25FF 6A12 D2B9 EC7D 66C1
