[Image-SIG] im.show does not show, and Tkinter isn't displaying my jpg image
Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra
rsenra at acm.org
Sat Apr 5 17:43:46 CEST 2008
[ Fredrik Lundh ]:
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>Guy K. Kloss wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking already that xv is pretty much a tool of the
>> past. I've circumnavigated this problem on my Linux box by
>> sym-linking /usr/local/xv to /usr/bin/display (of ImageMagick).
>> Maybe it would be more appropriate for "moder times" to replace xv
>> with display within PIL for show() on UN*X platforms?
>
>indeed (and if someone wants to produce a well-tested patch for this,
>be my guest).
By the way, I'd like to suggest a solution similar to webbrowser in
python's stdlib. We could encapsulate in a module tests for the
availability of several image viewers, and im.show() could fallback to
what was available (or configured) for the current platform.
cheers,
Rod Senra
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