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Beyond the Limits
The Missing Picture class
Issue: 3.5 (May/June 2005)
Author: Didier Barbas
Author Bio: Didier has been a dilettante programmer and linguist for more than 20 years. Unusual for a Frenchman, he speaks 11 languages, including Korean and PowerPC machine-language.
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Article Length (in bytes): 7,795
Starting Page Number: 46
RBD Number: 3521
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3521.sit Updated: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 11:41 AM
Related Web Link(s):
http://effbot.org/downloads/#Imaging
http://effbot.org/zone/pil-toc.htm
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When building console applications, we may not use instances of the Picture class. This restriction is imposed by some requirements that would make compiling Picture-enabled console applications a nightmare, or so I gather. Thus, until Mars Saxman and the other voodoo artists at REAL Software come up with a solution, we are out on a limb. So far, the best solution I have found is to use PIL, Python's Imaging Library. There are other solutions, like using ImageMagick (which I have used quite a bit, and like), but so far the only one I found that gave access to the innards of the image, while providing a fair number of manipulation functions, is PIL. Besides, all solutions are external and require us to install libraries (unless you want to write your own class in pure RB), so in the end, it's a matter of choice, really. So this column will be about integrating PIL within RB, at least on Mac OS X. PIL exists on Windows -- I understand the author is actually more Windows-oriented than I'll ever be -- so I suppose that the provided sample project is usable, with some modifications, on Windows. Linux users should be all right, although I have yet to test it.
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