From: "Daniel P. Zepeda" <daniel@...>
Date: 2002-01-08T12:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I "pop up" a scaled jpg image

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:53:20 +0900
Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> wrote:

> 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} &`

No, it is not, because it won't work the way you think. 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
> -- 
> Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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