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about how to do this in gtk2-perl

:) You should have searched on how to do it in Gtk2, then translate the code you find to perl :)

Gtk2 image site:perlmonks.org -> Gtk2 Simple Image Fade , Re^2: GTK2 - Load updated image file into a frame, Perl-Gtk2::How to set a window background image., Gtk2-thumbnail-previewer

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Re^2: gtk2-perl: how to update image widget from callback?
by wdef2 (Acolyte) on Oct 01, 2012 at 12:22 UTC
    Oh great more possibly relevant code to wade through. I did google for C examples but not on Perlmonks. That's where I discovered that, in using Gtk2 in C, it seems you can just change the widget and call the the main loop again from the callback - how simple is that! - which does not work in Perl for me. Frankly I'm tired of looking which I why I'm posting, there isn't a single clear blog or doc explaining this in Perl-gtk2. And the gtk2-perl docs are mere type and arg expanders, look auto generated, and show few or no examples whatsoever. Time to move to another toolkit?
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      http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=975036, which does not show a working solution, suggests this can be done by writing and updating a temp file and using a timeout to periodically clear and reload the image from there. Leaving aside the feeling that a temp file is a kludge, where does this timeout go? In or outside the main loop?
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