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Whats the difference between a plugin, a script and a module?

April 5, 2010 - 08:58 — Kowboy_Koder

Hey all. Whats the dif between a plugin, script and a module?

As far as I can tell, a module is something that enhances / extends the functionality of gimp, such as adding support for a new scripting language (PyGimp). But I still can't quite comprehend the difference between a plugin and a script. I mean technically, plugins are written using scripting languages lol so its kinda hard 2 differentiate between the two at a glance.

Any help is much appreciated. Cheers

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April 6, 2010 - 04:57 — ffaat

The only scripts are scheme (tiny-fu). The filename ends in .scm and they go in the scripts folder.

Plugins are stand alone executables called from gimp that access the internal api and pdb. They are normally either compiled C, or python. There have historically also been perl plugins as well.

Not sure what a module technically would be within this context.

-Rob A>

April 6, 2010 - 11:40 — schumaml

A GIMP module is derived from the GimpModule class: http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimpmodule/GimpModule.html

Currently, the color selectors, input controllers and display filters are implemented as modules: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/modules

 

April 7, 2010 - 01:24 — saulgoode

Is it possible to add a module without recompiling/relinking GIMP?

April 15, 2010 - 23:28 — ffaat

SO.... thinking about this, I recalled the autosave perl plugin: http://registry.gimp.org/node/20875

If one wanted to implement this in C, would it be best done as a module, rather than a plugin?

-Rob A>

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