The GIMP - Programmer's Reference Book

Marc Bless, bless@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Porting Notes (0.54 to 0.6)
• 1.2 About The Authors
• 1.3 Online Resources

2. Basic Concepts

• 2.1 What Is A Plug-In?
• 2.2 Images, Layers And Channels
• 2.3 Image Types
• 2.4 Internal Representations of Images
• 2.5 The .gimprc File

3. Compiling A New Plug-In

4. Programming Plug-Ins

• 4.1 Datatypes and Constants
• 4.2 Initializing All Stuff
• 4.3 The Filter Function
• 4.4 Creating A New Image
• 4.5 Color Functions
• 4.6 Adding Dialogs
• 4.7 Groups of Radio Buttons
• 4.8 Showing Previews
• 4.9 Progress Bars
• 4.10 Creating Additional Dialogs
• 4.11 File-Plug-Ins
• 4.12 Storing And Recovering Dialog Values

5. How To Debug A Plug-In

• 5.1 Why is it not obvious how to debug plug-ins?
• 5.2 The power of GDB
• 5.3 Debugging plug-ins before the dialog box
• 5.4 Some plug-in programming tips

6. Useful Routines

• 6.1 Coordinate Handling

7. Complete Plug-In-Templates

• 7.1 A Simple Plug-In
• 7.2 A Plug-In With Preview

8. GIMP Library Reference