Re: [TCLCORE] direct access to canvas pixels

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 02/04/2009 3:51 AM, Arjen Markus wrote:
> On 2009-04-02 12:41, Paul Alfille wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for the responses. I guess I misspoke. Having the canvas 
>> available as a svg (or other supported vector graphics) format would be 
>> even better. My personal use was for making shrunken views of the 
>> current canvas available as an icon or menu button. Another use would be 
>> creating a drawing program. This just seems like an underdeveloped 
>> portion of the Tk toolkit.
> 
> you can of course use the canvas scale subcommand to shrink the image
> and the Img package to capture it in an image. Or you could use the
> tkpath extension to directly manipulate SVGs.

On a related note, we recently beat the tkpath build system into shape. 
  It now works across the board and you'll find it in the teapot for 
Windows, OS X soon (in build rotation).  Not for Linux or the others 
until we update systems to have the necessary Cairo prereqs.

Jeff