From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2002-01-08T06:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I "pop up" a scaled jpg image

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 23:45, Daniel P. Zepeda wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:16:58 +0900
> Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@LaRC.NASA.Gov> wrote:
> 
> > So I created a small script (I welcome criticism) to
> > help me add some captions for a bunch of jpeg images:
<snip>
> > 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.
<snip>
> Here's a quick-and-dirty solution, it isn't pretty but it should 
> get you going (display is a part of ImageMagick):
<snip>
>   Thread.start do
>       `display #{file}`
>   end

This is probably better:

	`display #{file} &`

Cheers,

Neil

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