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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