Hi, On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 16:02 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > Sven Neumann writes: > > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:18 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > > > I need to show the dialogs because the plug-in needs to save a > > > file (that's the whole point of the plug-in) and it seems like > > > bad UI to pop up the JPEG save dialog without ever showing the > > > user where the file is being saved, or offering them a chance > > > to save it somewhere else. > > > > Then please add a sane user interface to your plug-in and pop up a > > file-chooser. The PDB was designed to allow plug-ins and scripts to call > > procedures in GIMP, not to pop up specific user interface elements. It > > is totally not suited for this kind of usage. > > I'm confused -- you say I should pop up a file chooser, then you > say that's not what the PDB is for. Is there a non-PDB way to do > this from a plug-in?
Yes, use the GtkFileChooserDialog. GTK+ is part of the GIMP plug-in API, so that is available to you. > Popping up a file chooser is exactly what I'm trying to do. > But I'd ideally like it to be the gimp file chooser with the image > file types, not a generic GTK file chooser (just for consistency, > because the GIMP dialog is what the user expects to see elsewhere > in gimp). That's why I was asking for an API to do that. The PDB is the wrong place for such an API though. It is not meant to provide user interfaces to plug-ins. The fact that it allows to call plug-in procedures in interactive run-mode is just due to the fact that the core uses the PDB to start a plug-in the user has selected in the menus. Core procedures don't expose this functionality and they shouldn't. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
