Re: Documentation about writing plugins in python?

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org>]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 07:55 -0800, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a simple question. I would like to try to write a plugin for
> EOG that adds an button so that when you click on it the current image
> is copied in a predetermined folder. It would be very useful to select
> photos on the go (and simpler that the tagging/select by tag offered
> by much more complex software). 
> 
> I have seen the instruction for the "very simple plugin", on the
> http://live.gnome.org/EyeOfGnome/Plugins page, but I need something
> more (eg, how to add a button, how to bind an action to that button,
> how to retrieve the current full file name of the image shown). Could
> you suggest me a place to look at?

Regarding the first two things you give as an example, you need to learn
first to write GTK+ code in python. That is not specific to the Eye of
GNOME. You can check the pygtk documentation in http://www.pygtk.org/

For the filename question, you need to check the eog API. That's a good
starting point to understand the eog UI and how to extend it. The api is
documented in C but you can extrapolate from that:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/eog/unstable/rn01.html

Also you can check the eog source code to find out how the application
itself does this or that.

Claudio

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