[Image-SIG] Re: progressive image displaying

[Fredrik Lundh]

Arthur Elsenaar wrote:

> what I like to do, is reading arbitrary images coming in over a socket
> and display them _as they arrive_, so when a chunk is in, immediatly
> display it (in pygame).
>  From the PIL documentation, I can see that one needs to use the
> frombuffer() method and feed that to pygame using the fromstring()
> method. Also I understand the pygame.load() function needs a complete
> file like object (StringIO), so how does one go about partly displaying
> these incoming data chunks? Do I need to use the PIL parse function
> somehow? Do I need to pad the missing data?

while PIL can decode things incrementally, there's no (reliable) way to
get access to incomplete image data.  maybe in 1.1.6 ?

(but I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this one)

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