From: Nightblade <nightblade@...>
Date: 2002-01-07T15:17:56+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I "pop up" a scaled jpg image


"Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide" has a chapter on Ruby
Tk that might have what you're looking for:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ext_tk.html

Cheers,
Nightblade

"Bil Kleb" <W.L.Kleb@LaRC.NASA.Gov> wrote in message
news:3C390101.A5BACDCC@LaRC.NASA.Gov...
> So I created a small script (I welcome criticism) to
> help me add some captions for a bunch of jpeg images:
>
> Dir["*.jpg"].sort.each do |file|
>  puts "Enter caption for #{file}:"
>  caption = gets
>  if caption && caption!="\n" then
>   File.open(File.basename(file,".jpg")+".txt","w") do |file|
>    file.puts caption
>   end
>  end
> end
>
> However, it would be nice to have the script pop up a small
> version of the image to look at while I write the caption.
>
> I've looked at Ruby-gimp, but I can't find any simple
> examples or read Japanese.  Any suggestions?
>
> (I'm on a linux box with things like Gimp and ImageMagick.)
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Bil
> NASA Langley Research Center
> Hampton, Virginia