On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, fgingras wrote:

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Also, I was wondering if there is an easy way to add a "color selector thing" (this thing where all available colors are displayed in a rectangle space so you can just click on the one you want) to the dialog. I'm guessing this is more GTK related, but I can't seem to find information about it.

Sounds like a http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkColorSelection.html to me.

/Emil

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 06:05 -0700, fgingras wrote:

What I'm looking
for is a way for the plugin to know when it should update its own dialog, which would be the time when the user uses the color picker and clicks somewhere on the opened image.

I'd say look at something like the colour-to-transparency code.

Liam

What you want is probably either a GimpColorSelection ( http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimpwidgets/GimpColorSelection.html ) or a GimpColorButton
( http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimpwidgets/GimpColorButton.html ), which pops up a GimpColorSelection when pressed. I don't think there is any way
to get it to update automatically when the core changes. Once upon a time this
happened without any programming needed, but in the current Gimp, each plug-in has its own "context" for things like colors, and there is no way for
the core Gimp application to pass messages to a plug-in, except in response to a
request from the plug-in. The only way to do it, as far as I know, is for the
plug-in to interrogate the core at regular intervals to see if anything has changed, and that's a nasty solution.

-- Bill