Request More Help With XBM Image
Wildman
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Tue Mar 1 15:24:15 EST 2016
On Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:30:59 +0100, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 29.02.16 um 22:51 schrieb Wildman:
>> I want to take an image file, convert it to XBM format and
>> display it. Thanks to Mr. Otten I can open and display the
>> XBM image without any problems. The script first calls an
>> external program for the image conversion then I can open
>> and display it. Of course, I am left with the XBM file that
>> needs to be deleted.
>
> I think you are solving the wrong problem. If your aim is to just
> display an image using Tkinter, you can use PIL to read the image and
> transfer the bits into a Tkinter photoimage object. For an example, look
> here:
>
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/521918-pil-and-tkinter-to-display-images/
>
> (this might need some updating if you are using Python 3)
>
> Christian
Thanks. I have read that page, among many others, during my
research. It deals with an actual image file. I am dealing
with an image that is not a file. It was redirected to stdout
from another process and was never saved to the hard drive.
Anyway, with Mr. Otten's help the problem is resolved.
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