I have mentioned occasionally that I am working on the problem of a script recorder for GIMP. While this is difficult, I think that it is do-able for a least a limited subset of GIMP commands.

I have concluded, at this point, that the parasite system can be used to record and track actions. Thus, you need to determine when an action occurs, and record information about it.

There are the three types of parasites: image, gimp, and global. I have successfully set up image parasites for some commands. The problem is that you need a reference to the image to attach a parasite to it. This is not always available.

Global parasites may be a better choice, but the problem is that I cannot get these to work.

Image parasites (gimp_image_parasite_attach) are defined in gimp/app/core/gimpimage.c. I have used them in 3 or 4 other internal functions.

Global parasites (gimp_attach_parasite) are defined in gimp/libgimp/gimp_pdb.c. I have tried a number of approaches to using these, but get the 'undefined reference to ' error during the make install step.

So, questions:

1) Are global parasites considered appropriate for use at this time, or are there issues with them?
2) How do I use a global parasite successfully? I have attempted to find the correct *.h file to include a reference to, but as of today, this has not worked successfully.
3) Do I need to modify the makefile to successfully use global parasite fuctions?

Paul A. Thompson