[Gimp-developer] Drawing a line in a GIMP plugin

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 00:00 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:51 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> > I'm a relative newbie trying to have a GIMP plugin draw a line (among
> > other things).
> > 
> > I found gdk_draw_line which seems to be what I want.
> 
> It is not what you want. GDK is a drawing toolkit used by GTK+ for
> drawing user interfaces. It is not meant and not suited for drawing to
> GIMP drawables.
> 
> You probably want to use the procedures gimp-paint or gimp-pencil that
> allow you to draw strokes using the paintbrush or pencil tools.

I see.  I was hoping to avoid the complexity of choosing brushes and
whatnot, and just draw a simple line with squared-off end...

But okay.  A search for "gimp plugin draw line" doesn't turn up anything
looking helpful.  Can you point me to an object or method to get
started?

Thanks,
-Adam
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