#!perl -w use strict; use Tk; use Tk::Photo; use MIME::Base64; use Tk::PNG; use Imager; my $image = Imager->new(xsize=>100, ysize=>100); # draw something simple here, you'll probably do something more complex $image->box(filled=>1, color=>'blue'); $image->box(filled=>1, color=>'red', xmin=>20, ymin=>20, xmax=>79, ymax=>79); my $image_data; $image->write(data =>\$image_data, type=>'png') or die "Cannot save image: ", $image->errstr; # supplying binary data didn't work, so we base64 encode it $image_data = encode_base64($image_data); my $main = MainWindow->new; my $tk_image = $main->Photo(-data => $image_data); $main->Label(-image=>$tk_image)->pack; MainLoop;