Though I am not fond of these macros for our core code (it makes the
code more cumbersome especially for using private data in derivable
types), this definitely makes sense for public API, since it would allow
easier modifications with less chances of messing API/ABI stability.
It's still basic but will help to share code for support of various vector-able
formats, such as the logic for dimensioning them, but also the generated GUI.
Not only this, but we are paving the way for the link layers (though it'll be
after GIMP 3, we want plug-in procedures' API to stay stable) by giving a way
for a plug-in procedure to advertize a vector format support. This way, the core
will know when a source file is vector and can be directly reloaded at any
target size (right now, in my MR for link layers, the list of "vector" formats
is hardcoded, which is not reliable).
… a GimpProcedureConfig for arguments.
This also factorizes the code to load metadata. By default, a GimpLoadProcedure
will try and load metadata from a file (if Exiv2 knows the format). The run()
function will be allowed to edit the GimpMetadata object but also the load flags
before it is actually attached to the image, allowing plug-ins to have custom
metadata handling code when needed.
which are GimpProcedure subclasses with API to register as load/save
handlers and their own kind of run functions that get their standard
arguments passed directly instead of packed into a GimpValueArray.
They also register their standard arguments themselves, which removes
quite some boilerplate from load/save plug-ins.
Remove gimpprocedure-private.[ch] because install() and uninstall()
are now virtual functions of GimpProcedure.
