Your client application and Imagenation must be conversing before any meaningful exchange of functions can take place. In Windows integrations, the IN_Startup function must be executed before any other function.
To start a conversation:
· Call the IN_Startup function.
The C API library is initialized. You can now call and pass other functions.
In UNIX integrations, it is also recommended that you start with IN_Startup, even though this function does nothing in UNIX Release 5.1.
You must end the conversation when you are closing a client application and want Imagenation to stop accepting calls from that client.
To end a conversation:
· In Windows integrations, before exiting from the client application, call IN_Shutdown.
· In UNIX integrations, call IN_ShutdownUnix.
The C API library is shut down. Imagenation will no longer accept function calls from the client. In Windows integrations, if the client application started Imagenation, then IN_Shutdown also closes Imagenation, and prompts the user to save or check in modified documents.
See also
Starting the Imagenation program