Graham, Yes, this is technically feasible. IM is great stuff. Call it from the shell function.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 19 apr 2011, at 21:52, Graham Samuel wrote: > I'm writing an app that allows its users access to a variety of bit-mapped > images and manipulates them in particular ways. I have found it easy with > formats PNG, JPG, BMP that LC reads natively, but I also have to deal with > PDF and TIF files. > > I have asked questions before about reading PDFs and other graphic formats > (I'm only interested in bitmapped graphics) that LC can't read natively. What > I am planning to do, thanks to advice from this list, is to get another > program, ImageMagick, to do the reading for me. I want my users to have the > simplest possible experience, so I want them to be unaware that two programs > are involved. I imagine, for example, that I could use my LC app to select > say a PDF file, pass it silently to ImageMagick for conversion to say PNG, > and then acquire the output in my own app so that from the users' point of > view there is just one program to deal with. > > My initial question is, is this feasible? I have read section 12.1 of the LC > Manual ('Communicating with other process and applications'), but the trouble > is, I'm too inexperienced to know which way to go. > > If anyone has any experience of this at all, perhaps they could give me some > pointers - it might save a great deal of wheel-inventing. > > TIA > > Graham > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
