From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T00:35:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Martin DeMello wrote in news:8cXxd.557131$nl.515593@pd7tw3no:

> 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.

Yeah, I agree it would be kind of nice to not just display: "Sorry, but I 
can't" to windows users when they use #display. But any support using a 
third party library is eventually going to annoy somebody; if its done in 
Fox, he is going to want to add his own stuff to the dialogue, and so on. 

I'd still prefer to publish some sample code on how to display images in 
all of the major tool kits (which is the only really useful thing) and have 
people build their own display from that. I guess the code is there, but 
we'd have to collect it.. 

Posts to this thread are welcome, if the quality is right, I will compile a 
short how-to on rubymine on the subject. I can contribute the FOX code. 

Whichever way, I think you agree that displaying images is obviously not a 
core function of RMagick, just a nice to have for the example scripts. 

kaspar

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