Tcl/Tk lifted the restriction to only base64-encoded data for gif images recently. This means it is just a question of porting the Tcl/Tk changes to the Perl/Tk source code (I am currently maintaining a set of patches against Tk-804.027, so this could maybe also go into the patchset).

As for the Tk::GD thing, I think this should be possible. Tk has various image types (Bitmap, Pixmap, Photo). And for Photo, there are various handlers for different image formats (gif, jpeg, png ...). It seems that Tk::GD should be implemented as another image type. You can look at tixGeneric/tixImgXpm.c or generic/tkImgPhoto.c in the Perl/Tk sources to see how to do this.

In reply to Re^3: Tk:Photo -data with binary data? by eserte
in thread Tk:Photo -data with binary data? by BrowserUk

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