[Image-SIG] that's enough

[Jack Uretsky]

 	Thank you.  I am new to these "toolkits", but this gives me some 
clues that I can follow up.
 		Regards,
 			Jack

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, donn wrote:

> On 29/07/2010 04:56, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>>      I suspect that my phrasing was a distraction.  There is a python
>> command that brings up an X11 window.  Is there a python command that
>> make the window go away?
>>      This is a general question, independent of the particular context
>> of my program.
> You've already been given all the best info: If you want to work with images, 
> and you want some control over that, then use a gui toolkit. Your choices: 
> Tk, WxWidgets, GTK, QT and then it gets harder.
>
> If you want to open a given image file without much control, then simply 
> fire-off a call to your o/s to open file 'X' using program 'Y' with popen or 
> subprocess (see Python docs).
> To close program 'Y', make sure you keep its process-id and then use similar 
> means to call kill. Some image viewers may even replace the last image with 
> the new one, so you can leave it open.
>
> Think 'scripting by pipes' if you don't want to use a gui toolkit.
>
> \d
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