Re: feature request: xscanimage postview window

becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Sat, 26 Apr 1997 13:56:47 +0200 (MET DST)

> When not using the standalone xscanimage, I think it would be *really*
> useful if a `postview' window popped up after the image was scanned.
A simple and useful solution to this would be to be able to specify a pipe
as the filename, just as xv does.

Specifying "|xv -" would do quite what you want. Other might want to use
"|ppmtogif >bla.gif" ...

> How easy would this be to implement? I was browsing through the code,
> but I'll confess that I know next to nothing about writing interactive
> graphical applications, much less GTK.
Well - the idea above should be quite easy ... a few lines of code around
open() and close() in the saving code ;-)

I'd do it myself, but am busy with GGI.

-- 
Andreas Beck              |  Email :  <becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>



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