Re: Gtk2::Image Loading a png from scalar

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

William B Carlson said:
> I have a library (GD::Graph, GD::Dashboard, etc) that can create an image
> and put it in scalar reference.  It can also make a physical file on the
> file system which I can load in with Gtk2::Image->new_from_file("file.png").
>
> What I want to know is if there is a way to take the scalar
> ( my $image = $dash->png() ) that the library can produce and load that into
> the application without having to write the file to the file system and read
> it again.

see perldoc Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf there are several new_from_xxx functions one of
which might fit the bill. they're pretty well documented as well. i don't know
that any of them will deal with png formatted data so you may have to feed
them something else, but hopefully that will get you going in the right
direction.

-rm