Read and display an image with Xlib

leistebien · 10-09-2011, 05:28 PM

Hi all,

I would like to read a PPM or BMP image (or just any other format) from a file and display it in a Xlib window. Is there any way to do this ?

Links with examples or snipplets are very much welcome !

Many thanks in advance.
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theNbomr · 10-09-2011, 06:46 PM

Imagemagick can display all common image format files, as well as a host of other image processing. The 'display' tool is the one you want. Imagemagick is probably available as part of most distro repositories.
--- rod.

leistebien · 10-10-2011, 04:36 AM

Hi, Im actually looking for programming it myself in C / C++ with Xlib, i.e. programatically rather than using command line.

theNbomr · 10-10-2011, 11:28 AM

I think Imagemagick also provides a C language API library that implements most of it's functionality.

--- rod.