Re: problem with `display' from ImageMagick

Michèle Garoche wrote:
> 
> Le 28 août 2006 à 16:45, Joerg van den Hoff a écrit :
> 
>> hi,
>>
>> after upgrading `ImageMagick' today
>>
>> the `display' command responds to arbitrary input by displaying it's 
>> help list and exits afterwards. `display' without argument does the 
>> same instead of bringing up the "splash screen wizard".
>>
>> `convert' on the other hand still works.
>>
>> any ideas?
> Assuming you use ImageMagick 6.2.8:
> 
> 1 - Copy the file /opt/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg in 
> say home/Pictures or wherever is convenient to you; for example, in a 
> Terminal Window type:
> 
> cp  /sw/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/images/logo.jpg ~/Pictures/
> 
> 2 - In the Apple X11 menu (if you use it), type:
> 
> display ~/Pictures/logo.png
> 
> or make a script (bash, applescript, what you want) to launch display 
> with this icon.
> 
> The key here is that ImageMagick wants an image at launch time, so use 
> any image you want, and then click on the window to get the menus.
> 
> 
> 
thanks, but I probably did not explain clearly enough what's happening:

both,

`display' and `display {some_image_or_other}'

do not work. in both cases, I only get the help text in the terminal as 
if I had issued `display -help'. `display -version' seems the only thing 
which reacts as expected, displaying only the version number, not the 
help text. this is version 6.2.7.5 as available at the moment via 
DarwinPorts and MacOS 10.4.7. on a G5

in all previous versions (including 6.1.8 which as a work around I 
installed via `fink' after having the described problem)

`display' brings immediately up the splash screen (logo.jpg) and
`display {some_image}' does just that (as it should :-)).