On Wednesday 19 July 2006 08:29, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Gimp is a very nice development, and a great tool, I know its > > possible to use it like a user (thought its user interface), add it > > plug-ins (in scheme or python), and use it in a batch mode. But I want > > to extend it to allow to use its api from another program (suppose i > > had a console program and I need to edit a photograph, it would be > > nice to have access to a libgimp utility -and all its dependencies > > files- with the minimum install process). > > I think you misunderstood what libgimp is doing. There is no image > manipulation functionality in libgimp. libgimp is just used to allow the > GIMP core and it's plug-ins to communicate. Without the GIMP core > running, libgimp is useless. So you can't build an application, link to > libgimp and use all the GIMP functionality. What you can do is to write > a plug-in that communicates with a running GIMP process (or even to > gimp-console, which is a gimp binary without the user interface). Does GEGL work like Mariano thought libgimp work? In that case, it is maybe a better idea to start looking at GEGL, has it will be, in the future, the image manipulation library used in The Gimp... -- Frédéric http://www.gbiloba.org
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