Re: [Pythoncard-users] thoughts on PIL and external packages

[Roman S. <rn...@on...>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Kevin Altis wrote:

>The more I look at PIL, the more I think we might want to use PIL as our
>native image format and any conversion required by wxPython for displaying
>bitmaps on screen would be hidden by our wrapper classes. Has anyone on the
>list done a lot of work with either wxPython wxImage/wxBitmap and/or PIL?

PIL is great and powerful, but it must be at the back because it doesn't
have display capabilities. Tkinter/PIL could be linked together nicely,
but I am not aware about wxPython. PIL is also pretty standard and more or
less mature.

The great thing about PIL is that it is universal and could be used with
any frontend. It is easy to link it with Numeric, for example, to
have even more powerful filters and transforms efficient.

Also, PIL has hooks to SANE (scanner system) and thus could be used
with web-cams, etc.

So, I am both hands for PIL to be used inside PythonCard!
(With animation, too!)

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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