MFC plugin

[_Peter_Heckert_]

Hello all,

I am new to the Photoshop SDK. I have already read that plugins using MFC are not recommended, because they cannot allocate memory from Photoshop.

Anyway, I compiled the MFCPlugin example and modified it for 16 bit color depth. So I am attempted to go on in this direction.
I want to write filter plugins for WIN32 only.

My beginner questions for that:
Will I find other limitations than memory allocation when I start to do more advanced stuff?
Are there other GUI toolkits (e.g. FLTK) that might be better for this?
(I dont like writing GUI's want to have a tool for this)

thanks for any clarifications and recommendations

regards,

Peter

[Tom Ruark]

You cannot use the PIUNew.h(cpp) files when using MFC. But that is not such a bad thing. You should only use Photoshop for large memory buffers for such things as images. The example is not as robust as Dissolve but MFC is available and usable. There are other plug-in developers out there using MFC.