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Date:      Fri, 10 May 1996 10:42:37 -0500
From:      "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
To:        "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tcl interface to GIMP? 
Message-ID:  <199605101542.KAA25031@jake.lodgenet.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 1996 22:30:56 PDT." <199605100530.WAA00918@rah.star-gate.com> 

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"Amancio Hasty Jr." writes:
>For starters
>o we should create the plug-ins as shared loadable modules
>  that will eliminate the shared memory requirement. 
>

ok, you mean via mmap/munmap like the shared libs, right?

>o Perhaps investigate using X11R6's XIE for storing images and manipulating
>them in the X server.
>

you got any pointers to sample code, or apps that use this stuff?

>
>o tcl interface plus a tk interface so we can create user friendly
>filters which can be modified at run time.
>  The tcl/tk interface would just invoke actions on gimp
>

could you be a bit more specific?

like

set region [rectangle 10 10 50 70]
gauss_blur region 3.4

type stuff?

>The guild and perl approach is fine however you really want to have
>also a graphical interface to the scripting language. The origins
>of GIMP are in Lisp so it does not surprise me that its authors
>have chosen guild.
>
>	Regards,
>	Amancio
>

eric.
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