which are GimpProcedure subclasses with API to register as load/save
handlers and their own kind of run functions that get their standard
arguments passed directly instead of packed into a GimpValueArray.
They also register their standard arguments themselves, which removes
quite some boilerplate from load/save plug-ins.
Remove gimpprocedure-private.[ch] because install() and uninstall()
are now virtual functions of GimpProcedure.
While doing so, better break the various source categories in libgimp/.
Otherwise we were duplicating some of the header list, hence we forgot
to install some of the headers.
libgimp is anyway processed at the very end after all other libgimp*
were built. This way, it also fixes#3746, by removing the $(top_srcdir)
everywhere from introspected files, hence making the build work again
with older automake.
They only contain private functions and don't need to be installed or
included by gimp_pdb_headers.h.
The PDB generation part is done by adding a "lib_private" variable
that can be set on PDB groups which should not be public API; the rest
is manual Makefile fiddling.
The idea is that we already have a GimpProcedure object in libgimp
which has name, help, blurb, arguments, return values and everything,
so we really don't need a parallel API to query PDB procedures for
their properties.
- make run() a virtual function of GimpProcedure
- move GIMP_PDB_ERROR to GimpPDB
- GimpPDBProcedure is a trivial subblass which populates
GimpProcedure's members by querying the PDB.
- make "plug-in", "procedure-type" and "name" construct-only
properties of GimpProcedure.
This is all work in progress.
Also remove several functions which never made it to a GIMP release.
They were really meant as temporary anyway from the start, waiting for
the new API to be usable.
And GimpParam is not boxed anymore. This is made useless by the fact it
is not an introspected type now.
Recent commits broke the Python plug-ins again because the old API is
not introspected anymore. Of course, by release of GIMP 3, we should
probably remove this deprecated API from introspection. But first, we
have to figure out how and if the new API can be used in bindings.
Mostly the same code as GimpProcedure in app/pdb/.
Move the "run" function to GimpProcedure. Add API to GimpPlugIn to
list and create procedures, and always keep a list of the plug-ins
procedures around. Still only using the old params and return_vals.
At first I thought these could be different namespaces, but actually
GObject Introspection parses files and can only use (AFAICS) the
namespace actually used in our C function, which is always `gimp_` (and
not `gimpbase_` or whatever.
So make the introspection at the root level, and it will include all
libgimp* libraries in one namespace, same as the C lib anyway. For now
only libgimp and libgimpbase as I am still testing.
Also I move the introspectable sources in their own file in order to
share the list between the library building Makefile and the GI
makefile because I can't find how to pass over variables otherwise.
Michael Natterer