Is it possible to create a new tool in gimp with plugins?

[AzuraA]

I'm looking into creating a plugin for GIMP, but what I want to do is basically create a compass tool. Where you choose a vertex, radius and angle to draw an arc.

it would be nice to select the plugin, left click on a vertex. then left click and hold to select distance and draw the arc. (sorry if im not great at explaining what im trying to do, if youve ever used a compas on paper then you probably know what I mean)

it would be more intuitive (and less work on my end, in theory) if I could just utilize the GIMP draw space rather than have to code basically a second canvas to draw the arcs then render them to the image. 

Is this something that is possible?

[Ofnuts]

(11-27-2024, 03:46 PM)AzuraA Wrote: I'm looking into creating a plugin for GIMP, but what I want to do is basically create a compass tool. Where you choose a vertex, radius and angle to draw an arc.

it would be nice to select the plugin, left click on a vertex. then left click and hold to select distance and draw the arc. (sorry if im not great at explaining what im trying to do, if youve ever used a compas on paper then you probably know what I mean)

it would be more intuitive (and less work on my end, in theory) if I could just utilize the GIMP draw space rather than have to code basically a second canvas to draw the arcs then render them to the image. 

Is this something that is possible?

Not as far as I know. My plugin to draw shapes requires the user to put points on the image (as path anchors) and the generates shapes from that.