On 23 March 2012 15:06, Chris Mohler <cr33dog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jon Decker <jondecker76@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for the reply. I do realize that the current image and drawable is >> passed to the plugin when first opened. Perhaps I should explain further. >> I'm trying to build more of an extension that is opened just once, and >> updates as you move from image to image. (Its a time tracking window which >> stays open along side gimp). I wanted to make it so that a new instance of >> the plugin doesn't have to run for each image - just open it once, and it >> "knows" which image is currently active so that it can populate my sqlite >> database. >> >> Is there a way to do this at in in gimp? No, there is not - at least no clean ways that I can think of. There is nothing on the GIMP's API that marks an image as the currently active image.(The "unclean way" I can think of would mean to use GTK+ instrumentation for GUI debugging to be able to introspect active windows, and infere the active image from its title) Another "unclean", but tidier, way would be to create a very simple script, with no parameters but "image and drawable" that would just signal your main plug-in when called - and you could bind it to a shortcut key and press it everytime you switch the active image. To notify your mainplug-in you could use some file-system signaling mechanism, xmlrpc, or some gtk+ mechanism.. I'd use this second approach. > > I'm not sure (reposting to list - be sure to 'reply-all' vs just 'reply'). > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
