[Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 'Magic' tools turning into plugin architecture

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

I'm putting together a basic (for now) plugin API in Tux Paint 0.9.18
that will replace the hard-coded Magic tool code in tuxpaint.c.

A new 'magic' subfolder has been added to the project, with its own Makefile
and 'images' subfolder full of icons.  I've ported the 'Negative' tool, so far.
The code uses SDL's "SDL_LoadObject()" function, and friends (found
prototyped in SDL_loadso.h).  The 'magic' folder generates ".so" files on
Linux, which are then placed in /usr/[local/]lib/tuxpaint/.

That directory is scanned by Tux Paint at startup, and any object files it
can find and open, and query for the proper set of functions, will appear
as Magic tools in Tux Paint.

It's all very rough, and somewhat broken, but it was all written while
in transit on trains today, on my 100mi trek back from work.

Comments?  (Other than, "you're insane", thank you :) )

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