Re: [wxperl-users] Creating a BMP from scalar...

[Bradley K. E. <bk...@bk...>]

Bradley K. Embree wrote:
> Mattia Barbon wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:58:56 -0700
>> "Bradley K. Embree" <bk...@bk...> wrote:
>>
>>   Hi,
>>  
>>> open my $fh, '<', \$chart_bmp or die "cannot open: $!";
>>> $bmp = Wx::Bitmap->new(
>>>     Wx::Image->new( $fh, wxBITMAP_TYPE_BMP, -1 )
>>> );
>>>
>>> Which gives me an error of 'DIB Header: Image width > 32767 pixels 
>>> for file.'.
>>
>>   This should work, though. I will have a look at it.
>> Which wxPerl/wxWidgets versions and platform are you using?
>>  
> 
> OS:         Windows 2000 SP4
> Perl:        v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
>         Binary build 815 [211909] provided by ActiveState
> wxPerl:     0.5 installed from www.gigi.co.uk.
> wxWidgets:     2.6.3
> 
> 
> I installed the latest perl from ActiveState (5.8.8 build 819) and got 
> the same error message using wxPerl 0.5.
> 
> I then installed the latest wxPerl PPMs (compiled against wxWidgets 
> 2.7.0) from www.gigi.co.uk and got the same error:
> 
> wxPerl:     0.56
> wxWidgets:     2.7.0
> 
> 
> I plan on getting my Ubuntu machine up and running so I can test on 
> there as well, and will let you know the results.

I've since tried this on an Ubuntu box which also failed. I've attached 
the output of perl -V from both my Windows 2000 PC and my Ubuntu PC.

On the Ubuntu PC I had:

Alien::wxWidgets 0.21
wxPerl 0.57
wxWidgets 2.6.3

and still no luck. Not sure if that helps or not. :)

Brad