#~    $image = $phwin->Photo(-file => $pic_file );
   $image->read($pic_file, -shrink  );
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thanks Anonymous Monk,

so the only way to efficiently load into a Tk::Photo object it is giving to it a filename to read ?

What I can do if i want to manipulate the image before displaying it? I've used in the original program GD and Image::Resize to handle rotation, for example, but this implies that i'll later pass the photo's data as MIME::Base64 encoded string into the -data => part of the Tk::Photo configure.

Thanks for your help

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Temporary files? You'll have to try both/all and see what happens :)

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