Easy image rendering?

[jaysherby at gmail.com]

I think that you've put me on the right track, but my eventual goal is
to be able to put the pictures on the screen with a full-screen
interface.  Not in a visible window, with just the picture and then a
black backdrop for it.

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >> If you are using PIL you could use im.show(); but all that does is
>     >> saving the image data to a file and opening that file in an external
>     >> application (xv on UNIX). At least you don't have to do it yourself.
>
>     jay> No good.  No external applications.  What else is there?  Worst case
>     jay> scenario, what's the easiest way to do GUI?
>
> You can still use PIL.  Just feed the result to Tkinter.  Check out the
> ImageTk module that's part of PIL:
>
>     http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/imagetk.htm
>
> Check this thread for some hints from Fredrik Lundh on combining PIL and
> Tkinter:
>
>     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-July/007379.html
>
> I'm sure when he gets up in Europe he'll be able to provide some more useful
> pointers.
> 
> Skip