From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T09:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: showing a picture

Justin Collins wrote:
> Sigge Sg wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me the code for showing a picture in the "my pictures"
>> folder? Please!!
>> I've just started programing, so I don't so much about it.
>>   
> 
> RMagick is probably a good place to start for displaying messages. 
> (http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/usage.html#displaying)
> I bet you could poke around and find some examples.
> 
> -Justin
> 
> 

Thanks for the recommendation, Justin, but while RMagick can do many 
things, it can't display an image on MS Windows because its display 
method depends on a X server, which doesn't exist for MS Windows. So it 
goes.

I'm not a Win guru, but wouldn't the simplest thing to do be to start an 
  external image display program like IrfanView and tell it to display 
the image?

my_image = "test.bmp"
system("start /wait i_view32 " + my_image)

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