From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2004-12-22T00:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Martin DeMello wrote:
> 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

Hi Martin, I was just about to ask the group the same thing? Does Ruby 
has graphics utilities/features/functionalities that is quite 
well-embedded just as gd with PHP?

Thanks.

Sarah