Hi, > Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > "Phil Lello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Windows XP, the file manager interface allows > graphics files to be > > browsed by thumnails. I'm looking into using the > > > > GIMP thumbnail library to add support for formats Windows doesn't > > already handle (e.g. Targa). > > If by GIMP thumbnail library you are refering to > libgimpthumb, then I have to disapoint you. All this library > does is to implement the Free Desktop thumbnail managing > standard. It is up to the user to create the thumbnails. > > And GIMP doesn't provide a library you easily could use to > make it's file loading plug-ins available to the window file > manager. But perhaps I am just misunderstanding what you are > trying to achieve? > > > Sven >
Yes, you understand what I meant. I'd had a flick through the 2.0 API docs (http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimpthumb/GimpThumbnail.html#gimp- thumbnail-load-thumb) which says "[gimp_thumbnail_load_thumb ()] Attempts to load a thumbnail preview for the image associated with thumbnail". So I thought I could use this library as a generic way to get a bitmap from a graphics file, and do my own scaling as appropriate. As this is not the case, I'll write my own Targa-specific solution for now, since this is all I'm after. Has anyone looked at building a generic image load/save library for GIMP in the past? I'll look into doing this unless I hear some convincing reasons not to.... Phil _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
