[ZooLib-dev] Photoshop plugins

[Michael D. C. <cra...@go...>]

I've been thinking of writing some custom photoshop plug-ins for my wife, who 
has been working with Photoshop a lot lately.  Sometimes she wants to do 
something that she can't figure out how to do with Photoshop's existing filters, 
and I tell her it wouldn't be hard if I wrote a photoshop plugin.

It occurred to me that it would be nice to use ZooLib for this, at least for the 
UI.  Also the threading would be cool if we got a multiprocessor machine, which 
we plan to do at some point.  Of course it would make it easy to run the 
plug-ins on both Mac and Windows.

I haven't looked at the photoshop API in a long time, but plug-ins in general do 
not own the event loop they're running in, the host application gets the even 
from the OS and then dispatches it to the plug-in.  At least that's the way it 
used to be on the Mac OS, I think in Windows every window has its own thread.

So what I'm asking is how hard do you think it would be to make ZooLib work for 
a photoshop plug-in?  I think if I could get it working it would be a popular 
application for ZooLib.

When I first started working with ZooLib I discussed writing a netscape browser 
plug-in in Zoolib with Andy.  He thought it was possible but would require quite 
a bit of work.

Best,

Mike
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