Quick question for the gurus who have experience with the GD.pm module. I am writing a routine to copy and scale images to thumbnail size. It works when I test locally but when I move to the webserver and test as a CGI it dies upon trying to call the copyResized method. I naturally want to understand better why it's failing so would like some error text from the module. One of the other method calls is documented to set $@ with error text upon an error, so I tried that but no such luck. Normally Lincoln Stein's documentation is damn-near flawless, but in this case doesn't give me a clue, and since the GD.pm module is a wrapper for the C-based gd library, I haven't the ability to look at the source to find out for myself.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. (Can post code if necessary but since this is a fairly general question and already a lengthy post, I thought I'd leave it at that.)

..Guv

In reply to Retrieving error messages from the GD.pm module. by theguvnor

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