I am very interested in this talk about images...can someone please send
me a small piece of code that uses this and just displays the image in a frame o
r simple widget so I can see how it is done? The books that I have aren't real c
lear about how to go about this.
Thanks,
Chris
On 09-Oct-97 Jim Kramer wrote:
>
> This is where I found mpack and it did work.
> What I did was:
>
> mpack -o tmpfile file
>
> in which tmpfile will contain something like what you gave below
>
> I cut this between the two blank lines which gives:
>R0lGODdhQwFaAfQAAKsAqwAAAEwATBkAGYMAg2gAaDEAMZsAm7kAuaMAo5MAk7IAsosAi3EA <many
>lines deleted>
>ihaK0wpymEirqEieiZHIiZjSqYxOiM9MiNd3pdf7mJkzuNmGiY4hmZmZiEthgAAOw==
>
> I then put it into a statment link:
> image create photo gif -data {
>R0lGODdhQwFaAfQAAKsAqwAAAEwATBkAGYMAg2gAaDEAMZsAm7kAuaMAo5MAk7IAsosAi3EA <many
>lines deleted>
>ihaK0wpymEirqEieiZHIiZjSqYxOiM9MiNd3pdf7mJkzuNmGiY4hmZmZiEthgAAOw==
>}
>
>
>and it worked.
>
>
>Jim K.
>
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>Subject: Re: [vtcl] Base64 Encoding
>Author: "J.R.Suckling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at maillink
>Date: 10/9/97 9:56 AM
>
>
>
>
>Stewart Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Jim Kramer wrote:
>
> I need to include gif images in my vtcl app
> and I need to keep the file standalong. I
> know that you can use the -data option on
> image create to create the image from
> Base64 data. My question, does any anyone
> know how to convert a gif file to base64
> encoded.
>
> I used a program called "mpack" on unix to do
> this. Unfortunately I have no pointers, but it
> should be in the standard archives.
> Alternatively, I have some Java code and C code
> which does this (but it's not in a pretty
> package). Send mail if you're interested.
>
>I found mpack on ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/
>
>Is this that you are talking about stewart?
>It seems to make mime format as the output.
>below is an example of what mpack produces.
>
>Do I take the binary data( I deleted all but two lines in
>the data below) and put it in a quoted string for tcl/tk
>to process.
>
>Jim, Could you send mt a small example when you get it to
>work. I do not have the time right now to puzzle it out.
>But I have wanted to do this for quite some time. Thanks.
>
>mpack sample output below this line.
>________________________________________________________________
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Subject: bk1.gif
>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-"
>
>This is a MIME encoded message. Decode it with "munpack"
>or any other MIME reading software. Mpack/munpack is available
>via anonymous FTP in ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/
>---
>Content-Type: image/gif; name="bk1.gif"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bk1.gif"
>Content-MD5: t4iCHcmzJaBc4e26WDtAxA==
>
>R0lGODdhQwFaAfQAAKsAqwAAAEwATBkAGYMAg2gAaDEAMZsAm7kAuaMAo5MAk7IAsosAi3EA
><many lines deleted>
>ihaK0wpymEirqEieiZHIiZjSqYxOiM9MiNd3pdf7mJkzuNmGiY4hmZmZiEthgAAOw==
>
>-----
>
>
>
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