RE: [Gimp-developer] image magick-- help
hi, is it ok to use image magick(c++) functions inside gimp plugins? I don't see why not. There are more plugins that use other libraries, like for example the mpeg plugin. Allthough having your plugin using additional libraries won't increase it's changes of becoming part of the GIMP core plugins :) Btw, having an Image Magick plugin could be quite useful in my opinion. The IM library is well documented and it should for example be possible to delegate fileformats that are unsupported by the GIMP (for example WBMP?) to IM. Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Building from CVS...
Hope anyone can help me with this one: I just checked out GIMP from CVS and try to run autogen.sh. However this results in a few hundred error messages, starting with: --- I am testing that you have the required versions of libtool, autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof, so if anything goes wrong, see the file HACKING for more information... Testing libtool... looks OK. Testing autoconf... looks OK. Testing automake... looks OK. Testing glib-gettextize... looks OK. Testing intltoolize... looks OK. I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line. aclocal: configure.in: 46: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library aclocal: configure.in: 160: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in library aclocal: configure.in: 160: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in library aclocal: configure.in: 160: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library configure.in:38: no proper implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found, configure.in:38: probably because aclocal.m4 is missing... --- I'm probably missing something here. I'm using autoconf 2.52 and automake 1.6.1. Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Usage of mnemonics in GIMP 1.3
GTK 2.0 now has this nice feature of using mnemonics which I think can greatly improve the navigation inside dialogs. I have 3 questions about this: * should we have some kind of guideline for using these, such that each plugin will use more or less the same mnemonics? * what will be the impact on the translations when we start using these? * can I submit a change request in Bugzilla to request for all plugins to use mnemonics for GIMP 1.4? I'm willing to help out here. Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Preview widget for plugins
Sven Neumann wrote: snip actually, I expect Step 3 to take less than 20 minutes. Just go ahead and introduce a preview widget based on GtkPreview and we'll port it to GtkDrawingArea for you. Well, because of my gf and little daughter 20 minutes might be all the time I get to spend in a few evenings :) snip We definitely aim for a GIMP-1.4 release before the end of this year but I believe we can finish the plug-in preview task in this time schedule. What about sending a mail with the proposed API to the list so people are able to comment on it? I will as soon as it has stabelized a bit. Right now it's based on 2 plugins (max_rgb and plasma) and I'm working on a third (wind). When the preview widget fullfills the need of 5 different plugins I will publish the API here, probably by the end of this week. Salut, Sven Kind regards, Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Preview widget for plugins
Ok, this has been discussed numerous times and seems to be quite high on the wishlist but it still doesn't really exist: a preview widget that can be used in all (or probably most) plug-ins. So I've taken up this challenge and started coding, heavily based on some work that has already been done in this area. However my approach is slightly different: instead of coding a perfect preview widget from the start I opted for the evolutionary approach: Step 1) first create a quick and dirty preview widget that really consists of code factored out from several plugins. This code relies on the deprecated GtkPreview widget. Main advantage of having this step is that it doesn't involve a lot of rewriting of the existing plugin code. This step has been succesful: I have changed the code from the max_rgb and the plasma plugin so they now both use my new preview widget. Step 2) update all plugins that already have a preview. Some of them will be easy, others might involve more rewriting or adding functionality to the preview widget. Step 3) once all plugins use the same preview widget it's time to replace the deprecated GtkPreview by another widget (GtkImage or GtkDrawingArea). In this step the API should be well established and be able to handle all preview needs. Step 4) update plugins that don't have a preview yet. So what's the current status? Well, I've finished step 1 and it seems to work :) Step 2 will take quite a bit more time, but will greatly clean up and reduce the current plugin code for all those plugins that use a preview. I expect this to take about 2 or 3 months. Step 3 will be relatively easy. Few evenings of hacking should be enough to do this. And finally, step 4, will be comparable with step 2: about 2 or 3 months. To sum up: before the end of the year all plugins for which this is appropriate will have a preview, using a common preview widget. I just hope Gimp 1.4 isn't already released before that time :) Any thoughts? Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Plugin icons in menus
Hi, Will it be possible for plug-ins in 1.3.x/1.4 to put their own neat little icons in front of their menu entry? I guess this would mean some minor enhancements to the plugin API :) Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Photoshop brushes
Hi, I noticed that it's pretty easy to write a plug-in to import Photoshop brushes. There seem to be lots of those freely around on the net. First question: is this plug-in already available (couldn't find it in the registry) and secondly: if not, would there be any interest in such a plugin? Maurits ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
