[ANN] Smagick

[hidden email] wrote:

Hi,

Thanks (to all) for the nice feedbacks !

request by Damien:
"Smagick 0.1" is now available as Package Universe ;)

interfacing:
Right now the "IO" between "Smagick" and "Image Magic" via  
"OSProcess" is done using "OSProcessIO". That is an intermediate  
layer that composes the commands for a model (=Smagick) and returns  
the parsed output (if there is any) and the process of an external  
application (=Image Magick) back to it. "OSProcessIO" is using a file-
pipe for this ... yet very primitive.

I know that "Smagick" works well on Unix, Linux and MacOSX - tested  
and heavily used. I don't know whether it runs on Windows. Maybe  
someone can try it ? - I don't use Windows anymore ...

Cheers,
Stef


On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:

>> "Smagick" is a small high level interface to control "Image Magick"
>> from within a Smalltalk environment, eg. Squeak. The purpose of this
>> package is to provide high performance image manipulations without
>> the need to know all the low level details of image processing.
>
> Neat!!
>
> There is a ton of stuff available on our machines outside of Squeak.
> There are several ways to access such things, and Smagick's approach
> is to use OSProcess.
>
> Can you comment on how the interfacing works?  Does Image Magick have
> a mode that lets you talk to it over a pipe, or does it have a rich
> set of command-line options that Smagick can use, or what?
>
> Also, does anyone have an idea if Smagick works in Windows, possibly
> with Cygwin?  How about OS/X ?
>
>
> Lex
>

Kevin Driedger wrote:

I've tried it on Windows and stepped through the code a bit and it seems that you are assuming that the names of the binaries will be without extensions but on Windows they add .exe to the end.  I'll see if I can change that.

]{evin

[hidden email] wrote:

Hi,

Thanks (to all) for the nice feedbacks !

request by Damien:
"Smagick 0.1" is now available as Package Universe ;)

interfacing:
Right now the "IO" between "Smagick" and "Image Magic" via  
"OSProcess" is done using "OSProcessIO". That is an intermediate  
layer that composes the commands for a model (=Smagick) and returns  
the parsed output (if there is any) and the process of an external  
application (=Image Magick) back to it. "OSProcessIO" is using a file-
pipe for this ... yet very primitive.

I know that "Smagick" works well on Unix, Linux and MacOSX - tested  
and heavily used. I don't know whether it runs on Windows. Maybe  
someone can try it ? - I don't use Windows anymore ...

Cheers,
Stef


On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Lex Spoon wrote:

>> "Smagick" is a small high level interface to control "Image Magick"
>> from within a Smalltalk environment, eg. Squeak. The purpose of this
>> package is to provide high performance image manipulations without
>> the need to know all the low level details of image processing.
>
> Neat!!
>
> There is a ton of stuff available on our machines outside of Squeak.
> There are several ways to access such things, and Smagick's approach
> is to use OSProcess.
>
> Can you comment on how the interfacing works?  Does Image Magick have
> a mode that lets you talk to it over a pipe, or does it have a rich
> set of command-line options that Smagick can use, or what?
>
> Also, does anyone have an idea if Smagick works in Windows, possibly
> with Cygwin?  How about OS/X ?
>
>
> Lex
>