Ok thanks for the information. I think I'll file a feature request as well - I think this would be a great addition to the API <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno <<a href="mailto:gwidion@mpc.com.br">gwidion@mpc.com.br</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 23 March 2012 15:06, Chris Mohler <<a href="mailto:cr33dog@gmail.com">cr33dog@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jon Decker <<a href="mailto:jondecker76@gmail.com">jondecker76@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> Thanks for the reply. I do realize that the current image and drawable is >> passed to the plugin when first opened. Perhaps I should explain further. >> I'm trying to build more of an extension that is opened just once, and >> updates as you move from image to image. (Its a time tracking window which >> stays open along side gimp). I wanted to make it so that a new instance of >> the plugin doesn't have to run for each image - just open it once, and it >> "knows" which image is currently active so that it can populate my sqlite >> database. >> >> Is there a way to do this at in in gimp? </div>No, there is not - at least no clean ways that I can think of. There is nothing on the GIMP's API that marks an image as the currently active image.(The "unclean way" I can think of would mean to use GTK+ instrumentation for GUI debugging to be able to introspect active windows, and infere the active image from its title) Another "unclean", but tidier, way would be to create a very simple script, with no parameters but "image and drawable" that would just signal your main plug-in when called - and you could bind it to a shortcut key and press it everytime you switch the active image. To notify your mainplug-in you could use some file-system signaling mechanism, xmlrpc, or some gtk+ mechanism.. I'd use this second approach. <div class="im"> > > I'm not sure (reposting to list - be sure to 'reply-all' vs just 'reply'). > > Chris </div>> _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:gimp-developer-list@gnome.org">gimp-developer-list@gnome.org</a> > <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list" target="_blank">http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list</a> </blockquote></div>