blumagoo2 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 In Reading through the "features" Part in the PDN Helpfile, You say: "Paint.NET supports plugins that add new effects, adjustments, and file format support." So how do I go about makeing PDN See and use My 3rd Party Plugins? Quote "He who sacrifices freedom for security is neither free nor secure." Ben Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SearedIce Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 You should download the source code. It comes with tools and info for making effects/adjustments plugins. http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html (at bottom of page) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Do you have any plugins? I"d be interested to know what plugins are out there, as I haven't seen any as of yet. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Why does it say Visual Studio 2003 Pro and NOT Visual Studio 2005? Is this some type of backwards compatability issuse, as I have never used these apps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SearedIce Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 So how do I go about makeing PDN See and use My 3rd Party Plugins? Do you have any plugins? I"d be interested to know what plugins are out there, as I haven't seen any as of yet. It seems he wants to get into making plugins. I haven't started playing around with plugins yet...I got a new computer and VS .NET isn't installed yet...surprisingly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Moved to Coding/Development If you want to write plugins, hold off until we release 2.6, with the source code. We're planning to do that by this weekend. Plugins compiled for 2.5 will not work in 2.6, and vice versa. The VS 2003 requirement is for Paint.NET 2.5. If you're working with Paint.NET 2.6 you will need VS 2005. We don't have very good documentation on how to write plugins. We should hopefully have some after the 2.6 release, but I can't say when. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Hanson Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Just out of curiosity what is involved in writing a basic plugin? Is is as simple and either inheriting from a Paint.Net plugin base class or implementing a Paint.Net Plugin Interface? Are there a bunch of nice C# methods a plugin writer can call and events we can bind our code to? Or is it lower level with a ton of PInvokes, COM Interop stuff, and/or custom attributes and such. I'm curious because if it's anything like the first two I might give it a try once there is some documentation but I have no interest in manually searching through the source code of the whole app for how to hook stuff or doing anything in that last part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 It's all C# based, there's no awful P/Invoke or COM interop that's required. It's actually very easy to write a simple plugin, we just need to actually document the darn thing and provide some examples. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Sherlock, you might wait until there are some actual plugins to download before worrying about installing them ... Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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