2013/11/1 Daniel P. Berrange <d...@berrange.com>: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 04:28:32PM -0200, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> 2013/10/31 Daniel P. Berrange <d...@berrange.com>: >> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 07:02:58PM -0200, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I wonder how finished are the GObject introspection bindings for >> >> Entangle. I would like to use its backend to create a free software >> >> stopmotion app. Or do you think it would be better to use libgphoto2 >> >> directly? >> >> >> >> I saw this stopmotion app http://sourceforge.net/projects/smcapture/ >> >> but couldn't compile it in a recent Fedora 19. Its development seems >> >> stalled. >> > >> > As mentioned elsewhere in response to another msg, I've done some >> > work to add onion skining, and other things requested by people >> > interested in stopmotion work. >> >> Good to know. I have failed searching the mailing list archives, so >> sorry for the duplicate question. >> >> > I don't really consider the backend APIs to be stable, so wouldn't >> > want to expose it as a formally supported library. >> >> OK, I don't mind if it is not stable, but is it already >> introspectable? If I start playing with it, can I get a live preview >> from a camera? > > Yes, entangle already supports live preview mode (at least on > cameras where it is supported by libgphoto2). > >> > At this point in time, I'd like to think we can get one UI that is >> > good for all capture use cases, including stop motion. Some of it >> > might be done as plugins rather than being present by default. If >> > you have specific features you'd like to see please do file bugs >> > about them, and mention them on list. >> >> Great, I'm here to help with that, if there are bindings I can write >> an extension in JavaScript. > > The PEAS plugin system is setup to enable the Python plugin engine. > > Unfortunately due to ref-counting + garbage collection problems you > cannot mix 2 non-C languages in the plugin system. I decided upon > Python over javascript since it is more mature code.
OK, Python is fine for me. I will check your plugin system. > We're generating the data neccessary to access APIs from python using > gobject introspection, but i've not written up how to actually use > this properly yet. I'll take a look to what can be done already. Thanks, -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list Entangle-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel
