Function

Gimpmain

since: 3.0

Declaration [src]

gint
gimp_main (
  GType plug_in_type,
  gint argc,
  gchar** argv
)

Description [src]

The main plug-in function that must be called with the plug-in’s GimpPlugIn subclass GType and the ‘argc’ and ‘argv’ that are passed to the platform’s main().

For instance, in Python, you will want to end your plug-in with this call:

Gimp.main(MyPlugIn.__gtype__, sys.argv)

For C plug-ins, use instead the GIMP_MAIN() macro.

Available since: 3.0

Parameters

plug_in_type

Type: GType

The type of the GimpPlugIn subclass of the plug-in.

argc

Type: gint

The number of arguments.

argv

Type: An array of gchar*

The arguments.

The length of the array is specified in the argc argument.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gint

An exit status as defined by the C library, on success EXIT_SUCCESS.