On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:03 +0100, Louise Hoffman wrote: > > You can't show a drawable by itself, it needs to be in an image. Also, an > > image can't show itself, you must create a display for that. You are also > > using the API in weird ways, for example, objects such as layers and images > > are represented by integers in the plug-in context. > > > > You are also saying that the plug-in takes the active image and drawable as > > parameter, but since you are creating a new image, you are not interested in > > those values (I assume) so there is no point in specifying these as > > arguments to the hello-world procedure. > > This is my first attempt to write a GIMP plugin, as you probably have > guessed by now =) I strongly suggest that you read the tutorial on developer.gimp.org then: http://developer.gimp.org/writing-a-plug-in/1/index.html and perhaps study the code of a plug-in that does something similar to what you want to achieve. Writing a plug-in without any idea of how the GIMP API works is not going to be a fun experience. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer