Hi guys,

I've been having quite a time with perlmagick .. I just started it, and I have run into trouble on various fronts. Slightly annoyed at that, because I have an OK grasp of Imagemagick itself, so I couldn't understand the lack of progress.

My feeling, then, is that it is my lack of OOPerl knowledge that's causing the problems, as I think perlmagick hinges on that.

I have been over the perlmagick page on the imagemagick site, and it's a little unwieldy (IYDMMSS). Other people seem to have taken this page and copied it wholesale on other sites too.

Is there anywhere else you'd direct me to?

Crucially, it is the montage command that has me all-a-flutter. The main example script actually uses it. And it seems to operate without needing a loop, despite it refers to a variable with several images.

For example, in this extract 
$example=$model->Clone();
$example->Label('Wave');
$example->Wave('25x150');
push(@$images,$example);
# Create image montage.
$montage=$images->Montage(geometry=>'128x160+8+4>',gravity=>'Center', 
+  tile=>'6x+10+200',compose=>'over',background=>'#ffffff',
font=>'Generic.ttf',pointsize=>18,fill=>'#600',stroke=>'none');

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You can see a push going on, onto the images variable,(itself an image object) and then the montage operation occuring without a loop. It must be some sort of stack that is flattened ... um err.

Sorry for not making myself more clear ... if you only faintly understand, but get a sense of where my problems may lie, a pointer to some illuminating sites would be appreciated.

Many thanks in advance

In reply to advice on OO and perlmagick by stabu

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