Re: only pixmaps available?

> I am using ImageMagick for all my image conversions so I can create XPM from > jpg/png/tuff & vise-versa quite easily via .... exec(convert this.jpg > this.xpm); etc, its just thats its so slow especially when I have to convert > a directory full of jpgs to xpm's before I can even display them in my > application. > > My last question was related in that for this project It would be useful to > be able to capture images from either an external device - i.e. digital > camera/video , or the windows clipboard, so a user could right-click and > 'copy' an image in explorer or photoshop or whatever, and then on button > click in GTK I could save the clipboard data to file an them convert to xpm > from whatever format came in , strangely enough the camera aspect is easier > as there are command-line utilities for many cam/video makes for dumping an > image to file. > > I assume I could capture the windows clipboard via the w32api functions but > I have yet to get further than a abort/retry/cancel dialog :) - I've absolutely no idea, let me know how you get on :) w32api's new, James wrote it initially and I don't know how developed it's become since. > I have looked everywhere for command line utilities for dumping the windows > clipboard to file but can only get utilities that grab text data not binary. > A couple of dudes on the ImageMagick mailing list seem to think that it > would be a trivial addition to the ImageMagick source to achieve this > functionality but thats beyond me for now. > > hey - GtkHtml - is that not *NIX only ?? - that would be perfect for > directory displays and I would only have to convert the selected image .... > ?? GtkHtml is 'nix only at present, yep. It'd solve a lot of my problems having it on win32 an' all :-\ if anyone's feeling energetic and has MS building materials ... sorry, can't help with this. > > Regards, > Simon Wheeler. > - Steph