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drawable - gimpygirl - 03-02-2024
What can a drawable be. A layer, what else?
Any docs page where I can read?
There is this
https://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/libgimp/libgimp-gimpdrawable.html#GimpDrawable
but it doesn't tell me all possible things that can be a drawable.
I don't understand it completely
RE: drawable - Ofnuts - 03-03-2024
Basically anything you can draw/paint on(*): a layer, a layer mask, or a channel. In an image, there is only a single active drawable at any time, so if you can't paint on a layer, it is possibly because you selected a channel, for instance, Select > Save to channel creates a channel from the current selection, and makes it the current drawable.
When Gimp calls a script/plugin, the second argument is often a drawable, and if that makes sense the plugin should be able to work with that.