From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-12-22T00:22:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Kaspar Schiess <eule@space.ch> wrote:
> 
> 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. 

Perhaps RMagick could handle the display call transparently even if
ImageMagick itself cannot - it'd be a nice feature, and one could
probably assume Tk and/or FOX on a windows+ruby system.

martin