in reply to Re: TK::Photo -file -data
in thread TK::Photo -file -data

Yes - that's correct. But my problem is how to read / parse the gif file and correctly format the imagedata for the -data option.

Below is an example for doing the job using jpeg images and GD - but i need to use gif's (or perhaps png's) and I would like to awoid having to use GD when showing the images in the final script which should get it's parsed image data from a dbmopned hash. So the question is...

Does anyone know how to parse the imagedata from a Gif?

Thanx in advance, Søren Schimkat 
#!/usr/bin/perl


use GD;
use Tk;
use Tk::JPEG;
use MIME::Base64;


my $im = GD::Image->new('image.jpg');
my $img = encode_base64($im->jpeg());
my $main = MainWindow->new();
my $image = $main->Photo("button", -data => $img, -format => 'jpeg');
my $label= $main->Label(-image => "button");
$label->grid(-in => $main);


MainLoop;

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Re: Re: Re: TK::Photo -file -data
by schimkat (Initiate) on Apr 18, 2002 at 13:10 UTC
    ... for visualizing what i meant with having the imagedata in a dbmopned hash, I have rewritten the example.

    First a script for creating the hash...
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use GD;
use Tk;
use Tk::JPEG;
use MIME::Base64;

dbmopen %myhash, "myhash", 0666;
my $im = GD::Image->new('image.jpg');
my $img = encode_base64($im->jpeg());
$myhash{image} = $img;
dbmclose %myhash;

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    ... and the a script for showing the image - using the imagedata in the hash: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use Tk;
use Tk::JPEG;

dbmopen %myhash, "myhash", 0666;
my $main = MainWindow->new();
my $image = $main->Photo("button", -data => $myhash{image}, -format =>
+ 'jpeg');
my $label= $main->Label(-image => "button");
$label->grid(-in => $main);
dbmclose %myhash;

MainLoop;

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    One of the great things is the compression:
    My image.jpg is 14.9 Kb.
    When compressed it is 13.4 Kb.
    When compressing the hash containing the imagedata - it's only 7.7 Kb.

    That's cool.

    Søren Schimkat
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      Now it works with GIF's. :-)
      Just use GD ver. 1.19 instead of 1.38 which is the current release.

      Script for creating hash:
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use GD;
use Tk;
use MIME::Base64;

dbmopen %myhash, "myhash", 0666;
open (GIF,"image.gif");
$im = newFromGif GD::Image(GIF);
close GIF;
my $img = encode_base64($im->gif);
$myhash{image} = $img;
dbmclose %myhash;

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      And a script for showing the image:
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use Tk;

dbmopen %myhash, "myhash", 0666;
my $main = MainWindow->new();
my $image = $main->Photo("button", -data => $myhash{image}, -format =>
+ 'gif');
my $label= $main->Label(-image => "button");
$label->grid(-in => $main);
dbmclose %myhash;

MainLoop;

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      Regards Søren Schimkat
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        ... and finally... a real life script: CatanAid

        I have dropped the hash and replaced it with a plain text file for better compatibillity with different platforms.

        Regards Søren Schimkat
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