Hi Cam, Campbell Barton wrote: > Blender.org is realy good with its community, and web forum- I didnt > find anything like this for the Gimp- (Not saying it isnt there), > Now Im on this list Id like to be involved with writing Plugins and a > little C where I can. The community forums are many and varied. There is the gimp-user mailing list, the gimp-developer mailing list, the gimp-win-users yahoo forum (I think that's its name), the GIMP Users Group (GUG) and many others (usenet, IRC, etc). The GIMP developers generally keep their eyes on the users and developers mailing lists. > Some things Id like to know tho are- > > Is there any 'good place to start' with C programming in the Gimp. - > Docs tutorials etc. (I have mainly used OpenGL in C/Python) For writing plug-ins, there are a few places to look. First, developer.gimp.org, which contains, among other things, an API reference for the GIMP. Second, http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net contains a great number of resources for GIMP plug-in programming, including Kevin Turner's excellent (although slightly outdated) manual, "Writing a GIMP Plug-in". I presented a paper at GUADEC last year called "Writing a GIMP Plug-in", which effectively summarised and updated parts of that paper. The paper itself and the slides I used are here: http://dneary.free.fr/guadec-paper/ - there is also the source code of a trivial plug-in. There is a CVS module gimp-plugin-template which contains everything you will need to develop a third party plug-in, including basic gettext, automake and autoconf configuration files. And of course, UTSL (Use The Source, Luke). There are many GIMP plug-ins in the GIMP source tree, and most of the simple ones are in plug-ins/common. I reccommend consulting plug-ins that approximate what you want to do. For script-fu, Simon Budig has written some papers on scheme and script-fu, there are also links on his pages to other people's tutorials (I seem to recall Zach Beane doing one a few years back which is almost still valid). Simon's GIMP page is here: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/gimp/ > Is the Gimp serious about Python as a plugin language, from using > Blender3D/Python, Gimp/Python would be easy- but I tried and couldent > get a Scheme script running in python- (Could have been a silly mistake > but I tried for ages) yosh has (or had, at least) plans to make python a first class scripting language to all of the GIMP's interfaces. This requires quite a bit of work in libgimpwidgets, among other places, and is not going to happen today or tomorrow. There are also bounties available (from Mark Shuttleworth) for work on the python scripting interface to the GIMP. I am not aware of anyone expressing interest in them recently. > Is there a way of refreshing python scripts without restarting??. There is no way of detecting a new script, scripts are read at start-up. However, if you modify a script during the lifetime of a gimp session, then re-running it re-loads it (as long as you don't change the plug_in_register call). Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: bolsh@xxxxxxxx CV: http://dneary.free.fr/CV/
