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Drag- and- drop-plugin interface - enhancement request

Posted: November 23rd, 2018, 6:46 am
by Winfried
I bought the Nik filter collection and played a little bit with it.
I am wondering whether it is possible to have such a plugin interface for the Dxo Filmpack too.
The Dxo Filmpack seems to keep the standards for drag-and-drop. I am able to drop an images on the Dxo Filmpach icon on the desktop.
And there are a lot of other applications that can be used by this drag-and-drop mechanism, i.e. Qimage for printing or exiftools(-k) for examinating metadata.
I guess it might be a cool idea to have a more general drag-and-drop plugin-interface for passing a copy of an image to other applications.
But it is not an urgent problem or request.

Re: Drag- and- drop-plugin interface - enhancement request

Posted: November 23rd, 2018, 8:46 am
by jsachs
An interesting idea...

PWP does not use drag and drop to pass files to plug-ins. Instead it works by passing the name of the file to operate on in a command line when it executes the plug-in program. This hold-over from the days of DOS is still used by most stand-alone programs, so any image editing application that takes command line arguments could be used with something similar to PWP8's current plug-in interface.

Re: Drag- and- drop-plugin interface - enhancement request

Posted: November 23rd, 2018, 10:33 am
by Winfried
Thank you for the reply.
I am no programmer, so I don't know about the differences between drag-and-drap and command line interface.
If the command line interface does the trick, it is more than ok.