8.4 Photos

8.4.1 Description

A photo is an image whose pixels can display any color or be transparent. A photo image is stored internally in full color (24 bits per pixel), and is displayed using dithering if necessary. Image data for a photo image can be obtained from a file, a string or a url. At present, only GIF and PPM/PGM formats are supported. A photo image is transparent in regions where no image data has been supplied.

In QTk, photos are built by the QTk.newImage function. This function takes one parameter: a record of the form photo(param1:value1 ... paramX:valueX) and returns an object allowing to reference that photo and change it as needed. The valid parameters and methods are described below.

8.4.2 Parameters

8.4.3 Interface


Donatien Grolaux
Version 1.3.0 (20040413)