[Gimp-developer] Extending GIMP Plugins

[Martin Nordholts]

Karl Günter Wünsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Michael Schumacher wrote:
>> Should it be more easy than writing e.g. a plug-in in Python?
> How about having a C++ virutal interface which you only have to fill in with 
> your own methods and GUI elements in a set dialog interface... 
> I have several things that I really would like to try and would require a 
> native compiled plugin. 
> But since there is no sound C++ interface to the innards of the GIMP :-(...

There is no sound C++ interface for only one reason: nobody has written 
it yet.

It should be fairly easy, especially since the C library GIMP builds 
upon was designed specifically to be easy to write wrappers for (GObject).

- Martin Nordholts