[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: PIL gui with Panther python?

[David Eppstein]

In article <533630C0-D50B-11D8-AD25-000D934FF6B4 at cwi.nl>,
 Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:

> On 11 Jul 2004, at 18:10, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> > PyObjC currently has no support for PIL images.
> >
> > BTW. Why do you have to display PIL images? Cocoa has support for 
> > displaying images and transforming them.
> 
> But still: it would be good to have an example PyObjC program that does 
> the same as the Tkinter-based PIL image viewer. Even if only because 
> it'll support any image format for which PIL has support, and other 
> Python packages that have a bridge to PIL (such as Numeric).

Another reason for wishing for PIL support in PyObjC, or at least some 
means of interoperating between the two: if your program is written in 
good MVC style (which the previous version of the one I was working on 
very much was not) then, even if the view part is platform-specific 
PyObjC Cocoa for that yummy native look'n'feel, it would still be good 
to have a more portable model.  So, if the model involves image 
processing, portability for Python means doing it in PIL rather than 
Cocoa.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science