Hello,

Does Gimp offer an interface (dll) which will allow me to access it capabilities through java or c++?

Stephen

On 05/31/2012 02:33 AM, stephen wrote:

Hello,

Does Gimp offer an interface (dll) which will allow me to access it capabilities through java or c++?

There is a C interface, and there is a Python interface which is quite powerful.

What is the name of the dlls that offer those interfaces. Can you point me to a web page that describes them.

Thanks, Stephen

On 05/31/2012 03:14 AM, stephen wrote:

On 05/31/2012 02:33 AM, stephen wrote:

Hello,

Does Gimp offer an interface (dll) which will allow me to access it capabilities through java or c++?

There is a C interface, and there is a Python interface which is quite powerful.

What is the name of the dlls that offer those interfaces. Can you point me to a web page that describes them.

Thanks, Stephen

For C: http://www.gimp.org/docs/plug-in/plug-in.html

For Python: http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html

I strongly suggest that you subscribve to the gimp-developer mailing list:

https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list

Thanks for the information.

I want to write a c++ or java program that would allow me to manipulate images the way gimp does. For example, my program could create a puzzle of an image without having the complete gimp program installed. Is that possible?

I noticed that the python web page you referenced above mentioned libgimp. Will that library supply the functionality I'm looking for?

Ofnuts wrote:

On 05/31/2012 03:14 AM, stephen wrote:

On 05/31/2012 02:33 AM, stephen wrote:

Hello,

Does Gimp offer an interface (dll) which will allow me to access it capabilities through java or c++?

There is a C interface, and there is a Python interface which is quite powerful.

Hi,

I see the following possibilities: 1. There is a Java wrapper for GIMP, see http://jgimp.sourceforge.net/, but this project hasn't been active for a long time. 2. A still existing way is to use the Java Native Interface (JNI), which lets you call C/C++ functions from Java and vice versa. 3. GIMP has a built-in script-fu server which interpretes GIMPs plugin language, a Scheme dialect. You could connect to it over a socket from an arbitrary language and control GIMP remotely, although it's a bit oversized if you could call GIMPs functionality directly from within your program.
4. IMHO you should be able to access C from C++ by including the C header files, but I haven't tried this for GIMP yet. 5. If you're only interested in accessing GIMPs graphics core, then you could use a wrapper around the GEGL library. A Java language binding has yet to be developed.

Best regards,

grafxuser

Great! I look into those. Thanks.