Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Roland Lutz
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > Should using an IWarp tool mean entering a separate "mode" where you > then have to "apply and exit" it when done? That is somewhat ugly, > isn't it? That's how the Scissors tool works, so people are already used to it. This way, a separate warp histor

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Alexia Death
On Saturday, July 31, 2010 22:33:56 Tor Lillqvist wrote: > I think an IWarp tool would require mechanisms in GIMP that don't > exist yet as none of the current tools, even if superficially similar > (like the smudge tool) requires them. Doing the iWarp tool in paint tool way was rejected because it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Tor Lillqvist
I think an IWarp tool would require mechanisms in GIMP that don't exist yet as none of the current tools, even if superficially similar (like the smudge tool) requires them. Also, the exact way an IWarp tool should behave should be specified before one starts coding on it;) Yeah, getting input on h

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Bill Skaggs
Pluggable tools would be nice, but the tool system is already set up to make it easy to add new ones. It's one of the easiest places in the gimp code for a new developer to work, although it would be a lot easier if there were more developer documentation. The problem with the iwarp tool wasn't i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/31/10, Roland Lutz wrote: > There has been repeatedly brought up the request for in-window > applicability of the IWarp distort. Using IWarp in the preview pane is a > nuisance and much inferior to, for example, the Photoshop Liquify tool. > In fact, this has been the reason for me to consid

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Martin Nordholts
Hi Roland On 07/31/2010 02:32 PM, Roland Lutz wrote: > Hi, > > there has been a discussion, in 2002-2004, to allow plugged-in tools. > > On 2002-02-22, Sven Neumann wrote: >> not discussed, but already implemented ;-) The CVS version has >> preliminary support for pluggable tools that can be eithe

[Gimp-developer] Plugged-in tools

2010-07-31 Thread Roland Lutz
Hi, there has been a discussion, in 2002-2004, to allow plugged-in tools. On 2002-02-22, Sven Neumann wrote: > not discussed, but already implemented ;-) The CVS version has > preliminary support for pluggable tools that can be either loaded as > a plug-in (separate process) or as a module. I hav