Re: GIF image handling?

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:05:09 +0000 (UTC), Joe <[email protected]> wrote:

> I need to load a GIF image into a window and then overlay it with
> some circles and arrows and maybe some text.  Is this possible in
> ACL?
>
> It would be nice if it was then possible to write the resulting
> image out to a new GIF file.
>
> It would be even nicer if all the processing could also be done
> without opening a window.

As Harley Gorrell has already said this should work with CL-GD. You
don't have to open a window.

> I'm using the ACL 6.2 trial edition on Windows.

The main problem might be to get all the C libraries for Windows -
CL-GD was developed on Linux and most of its users seem to come from
there. AFAIK these libs /are/ available for Windows,
though. GnuWin32[1] might be a good starting point. You'll probably
have to frob the value *SHARED-LIBRARY-DIRECTORIES* which is defined
in specials.lisp.

Cheers,
Edi.

[1] <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/>