Hello, I'm intending to build plugins to improve gimp's UI in various ways and get around the source code. Most notably, I want to change the right click menu.  To that end, I wish to have two behaviors non-standard with plugins.

1. Have the UI improvement called at each creation of a display. 2. Receive a pointer to that display.

For 1, I don't know how to do that. The plug-ins feel like they have been designed solely to make filter effects. For 2, I guess I have to add a GimpParamDef "display" with type GIMP_PDB_DISPLAY, but the documentation is sparse on the topic, and I cannot manage to receive one when trying out the plugin. I have for now added {
GIMP_PDB_DISPLAY,
"display",
"Display"
}
In the list of parameters to give to `gimp_install_procedure` in `query`, but the pointer given as a `GimpParam` in the `run` function of the plug-in is 0. I'm using gimp 2.9 (git/master).

Thank anyone that can help me,

Nicolas Brack ----------------------------------------------------- https://www.mail.be

From: Alexandre Prokoudine
Glad to hear that you want to step up and make a change. However, I'd like t know: what is the reason you don't want to work on GIMP itself?

I wanted something easily to build, distribute and host. I would also have thought it's faster to test and build. And finally, to lazily avoid digging too deep in the source code for a first modification (it's quite a pain to browse without an IDE that allow to jump to the definition/declaration of a symbol and it's hard to find an IDE that can parse the project tree with autotools, the vim ctag combination drives me nuts so much it's not friendly to configure and use)

If you intend to add context-sensitive right-click menu, I would humbly suggest to work on GIMP code rather than invent cunning ways to do that with plugins.

All right, I'll try to figure out how to hack the code and fork it. I'll get down to it and try to have a friendly ctag file to work with.

Thank you ! ----------------------------------------------------- https://www.mail.be