Re: [TCLCORE] Thanks for TCL/Tk 9.0.0 and next steps

[Kevin K. <kev...@gm...>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:36 AM Marc Culler <cul...@gm...> wrote:

> I have no idea what the item "factor out the image command from Tk" is
> about, nor why one would want to do that. What is the issue? It seems like
> something that should be discussed here before it is discussed on zoom,
> which reaches many fewer people.
>
>
I have had a number of apps over the years that want to do 'headless' image
processing.  Either they are sending images to a destination other than a
graphical user interface (for example, printing), or they are accepting
images from an external source (such as a camera, X-ray, ultrasound, radar,
...) and performing analytics upon them.  But at the root, there's still an
'image' object - an array of pixels.  Much of what's in the [image] command
is dealing with file formats, memory management, and the like,
without reference to a GUI.  I think that refactoring that portion out and
making it available to non-GUI applications could be a significant step
forward.

Whether now is the time to discuss it (relative to the release schedule) is
a question that I'll leave to others.
-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin