Hi All, I am trying to re-write an older perl/Tk script that would download an image from a webcam and display it. I would like to use Gtk2 but there is very little example code and documentation available for it ( that I can find - any links would be appreciated ). This bit of code almost does what I need it to minus two things. 1. The image does not update. 2. The image does not scale when the window is resized. One other thing, I would really like to avoid writing the data to a temp file if I can, I would rather download the image data and pipe it directly to Gtk2::Image. Any help would be greatly appreciated !! Thank You ! -T 
#!/usr/bin/perl

$|=1;

use strict;
use Gtk2 '-init';
use MIME::Base64;
use LWP::Simple;

my $load_timeout = undef;
my $CAM_URL      = "http://www.livecam.com.au/livecam1/livecam.jpeg?mu
+=";

my $window = Gtk2::Window->new('toplevel');
$window->signal_connect(delete_event => \&delete_event);
$window->signal_connect(destroy => sub { Gtk2->main_quit; });
$window->set_border_width(10);
my $image = Gtk2::Image->new();
$window->add ($image);
$image->show;
$window->show;
$window->show_all;
do_load();

Gtk2->main;

sub do_load {
   
   getstore($CAM_URL.time(),"/tmp/latest.jpg" );
   $image->set_from_file("/tmp/latest.jpg");

   $image->show;
   $window->show;
   
   unlink("/tmp/latest.jpg");
   
   $load_timeout = Glib::Timeout->add (6500, \&do_load);
   
};

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