Shrinivas Kulkarni (shrinivask@vitinfotech.com) wrote:

Is there anyway to call a plugin within plugin. For example I would like to invoke GFig plugin from my own plugin. Example is really appreciated.

I thought initially using PDB related functions we may be able to do it.

It all depends on the plugin you want to use. Usually they register PDB functions, and you can call these via the libgimp functions gimp_run_procedure
gimp_run_procedure2

An example is in plugins/common/curve_bend.c

Bye, Simon

Shrinivas Kulkarni (shrinivask@vitinfotech.com) wrote:

I have one more question! Can we use GIMP's filters without GIMP. What I mean to ask can we use GIMP as lib.

Hardly.

Of course you could implement the libgimp protocol, but I seriously doubt that this is feasible.

You can however run gimp without a user interface and run it as "rendering engine" in the background and communicate with it via the PDB. It depends on your goals if this is a good solution for you.

Bye, Simon

Shrinivas Kulkarni (shrinivask@vitinfotech.com) wrote:

I really appreciate your quick response. About the other solution, that is to make GIMP running a background, I am aware of it. But I am not sure how I can call PDB functions from my program to a process that is running in background.

Do you want to say that I should run GIMP from my application first and then call it's functionality thru PDB? I am sorry if I am making a foolish question here.

It is very hard for me to give you any advice, since you are very reluctant with the details of what you are actually trying to do.

There are at least two methods to contact a running GIMP. Gimp-Perl has a method of communicate to the main GIMP process, and there is a net-fu server, where GIMP listens on a socket.

I don't have very much experience with that, so I cannot really help here. It might also make sense for you to develop a small extension for the GIMP, that establishes the communication between your application and the GIMP.

Bye,
Simon