Scripting

[Cyrille Berger]

> > - Provide acces to functionallity, ie being able to say load,scale, filter
> > and save images from a script.
> > - Support an (in theory) unlimited number of languages
> > - Allow scripts to be executed from other scripts (cross language), and
> > from menus in krita
> 
> I'm not sure we really require cross language scripting to be available; 
> however, we'll need a kind of database with functionality provided by plugins 
> that can be accessed by scripts anyway, so it should be a simple extension of 
> that.
Yes but I think that scripts can register themselfs in the database, a
little bit like in the gimp. And there is already a database for
filters, and tools.

> > Do we have cases where "like in a texteditor that uses script to provide
> > highlighting for different languages". We have such cases but until now
> > colorspaces, filters and tools have all been written in C++. Are we moving
> > towards allowing those things to be scripted?
> 
> Filters and tools, definitely yet. Colorspaces, probably not.
I agree, I think colorspaces need to be fast.


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Cyrille Berger