Re: Tk::Photo->data(-format) support ?

Todd Littlefield wrote:
> Strange thing is the Tk Widget Demo loads some gif files (earth.gif and 
> earthris.gif) for the
> Alpha Channel Compositing demo.  It doesn't specify the file type, it 
> just opens it:
> 
>    my $i1 = $mw->Photo( -file => Tk->findINC( 'demos/images/earth.gif' ) );
>    my $i2 = $mw->Photo( -file => Tk->findINC( 
> 'demos/images/earthris.gif' ) );
> 
> Are you sure the binary data is correct?  What if you tried dumping that 
> to a file
> with a .gif extension and loading it?

The issue isn't in creating a Tk::Photo, but rather retrieving
the data back out of it.

Having applied Slaven's comments, I further discovered the output
is base64 encoded, so it also requires decoding the output.
With that magic, I can grab the PNG version, and feed it directly
to GD.

Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.

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