From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-12-21T09:22:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Sarah Tanembaum wrote: 

> that works under native mswin323232 or at least with Cygwin X windows 
> server?  ImageMagick so far won't work either in native windows or 
> Cygwin. Is there any other alternative? Thanks

Hello Sarah, 

I would like to get back on this, since I cannot agree with what you say. 
ImageMagick works very well as far as its intended purpose goes on win32 
platforms, I use it frequently. It just can't #display images. This is 
now a documented limitation. 

There are a number of ways of achieving that goal, like using the Fox GUI 
toolkit for example (comes with the default installer); look at the 
examples, there's a nice image browser/display application. I am sure 
every GUI toolkit has that feature, since that is part of the intended 
purpose of such a toolkit. 

There are other ways of displaying images, like on a web page (generating 
the image on the fly and streaming it to the client) or by remote 
controlling an image display application. 

All of this depends on what you want to do. Manipulating images ? RMagick 
will probably do it. Displaying images ? Another library will do that. 
Why don't you tell us what you intend to do ? That way our suggestions 
can become more targetted. 

yours truly, 
kaspar