Re: [Gimp-developer] Of Palettes and Plug-ins

[Warren Turkal <wt penguintechs org>]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Warren Turkal <wt penguintechs org>
> wrote:
> > Just so you all know, this actually started with my wife wanting to
> import
> > *.ase palettes in .
>
> Same here, but I just wanted to use Kuler palettes.  Adobe claims the
> .ase specs are in the PS SDK, but if they are I never found them.
>
> That's about as far down the rabbit hole as I got - I didn't feel like
> reverse-engineering the PS palette format.

I've seen some references to the format online. If it's as simple as it
looks, I'll be okay. If not, at least I'll have fun.


> Back to your main question: unless I'm out of touch, I believe all of
> the file loader plugins need to be written in C.  I could well be
> wrong though.  It's been quite some time since I touched anything
> having to do with GIMP besides the occasional plug-in in Python.

This knowledge is still current. The work I linked to in my original
message was a start at trying to change that. I was trying to plumb through
the ability to write plugins that could process files when you go through
the normal import palette from file dialog.

Thanks,
wt