Does the scanning software provide any API (OLE/ActiveX/Win32::NamedPipe)? Any of these would likely allow a direct passing of data to the application...
Jason P. ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Spearman Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:00 AM To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Hopefully an easy question about bitmaps... I am using some scanning software that can provide me with a handle to a DIB (Device Indep. Bitmap according to the documentation). What I'd like to do is display this directly on the screen in a label, or another suitable element. I'm not very clear on exactly what a handle is (except that it's different from a pointer, again according to their documentation) and how to interface this with Win32::GUI. What I'm doing right now is writing the page out to a BMP file on disk, then opening it in a Win32::GUI::Bitmap, which is then assigned to a label, but it seems to me there should be an easier way to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Scott Spearman Programmer Pikeville Medical Center Phone: 606-218-4660 Pager: 606-437-8542 Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this material from any computer.
