[Gimp-developer] Using GIMP from my own program

[Martin Nordholts]

Pablo Yaggi wrote:
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> Hi, is it possible to use gimp from a C program ?
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> I want to open an image use some plugin on it and
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> save it. I know perl does something like that, but
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> I couldn't find info about that, could somebody
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> point me in a good direction ?
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> Bests,
>
> Pablo
>

Hi!

The different language wrappers for GIMP such as Perl, Python or Scheme
are themselves basically just wrappers for the PDB, Procedural DataBase.
If you want to call a PDB procedure from GIMP plug-in written in C you
would use gimp_run_procedure() [1] or gimp_run_procedure2(). (These are
the functions the language wrappers themselves use (the language
wrappers are themselves plug-ins)).

BR,
Martin

[1]
http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimp/libgimp-gimp.html#gimp-run-procedure