On 6/8/06, Olivier Ravard <olivier.ravard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I have a question for core developers about plugins : How are the images and other parameters passed to (C++) plugins ? via network or via the file system ?
Gimp plugins communicate with the gimp process through pipes. Image data is shared between the plugin and the gimp process using shared memory if available, otherwise it is sent through the pipe.
Is there any documentation about the gimp plugins concept (I don't want documentation on "how to build a plugin for gimp") ?
IIRC, the original (pre-gimp.org) website maintained by S & P had a bit on how they work. You might be able to find an archived version of that site somewhere. http://developer.gimp.org has the gtkdoc for the applicable classes. But really the best way to understand it is to look at the code itself. It's not that difficult of a read. Off the top of my head, I seem to recall that the names of the files most involved are gimpplugin.c, gimpprotocol.c and gimpwire.c. Rockwalrus _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
