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Re^4: Memory File and wxPerlby jmlynesjr (Deacon) |
on Mar 24, 2016 at 23:02 UTC ( [id://1158761]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Findings: Base GD can't output to an XPM file. However, I found the CPAN module GD::Convert that adds output options to GD, one of which is XPM. This seems to work as advertised and didn't have a problem creating the 600x600 image memory file. NewFromPNGData is not wrapped in Wx. Per Mark Dootson(wxperl-users), the work around is:
This works as well. I plan to try both methods and see if there is any speed difference(currently at a 35msec screen refresh rate). My gut feel is that I might not see a speed increase. The small file size may have been writing/reading within Linux I/O buffers and not from physical disk. More testing needed. James There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...
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