{"id":1540,"date":"2010-03-20T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:49:19","slug":"using-boomy-icons-with-tcltk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/using-boomy-icons-with-tcltk\/","title":{"rendered":"Using “boomy” icons with tcl\/tk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent some time over the last few days trying to populate the TK images folder with a usable image library. It seems we can now use .png\/\/.jpg. Jan 2023.
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In Dec 2022, i found out that tcltk\/wish will now process .png images, this page, describes how<\/a> although the functionality just seems to be there.<\/p>\n

The TCL image command<\/a> manual page, and\u00a0 very old note on extending TCL<\/a> to manage other formats.<\/p>\n

Otherwise,<\/p>\n

Using ImageMagick to create .gif from .png<\/h3>\n

I wanted to use the Boomy icon set<\/a>. This comes in .gif, .ico and .png. The .png is really good. The .gif has the wrong transparency colour set and so needs conversion. There are quite a lot so I wanted to use a batch operation.<\/p>\n

I chose to use ImageMagick<\/a>. I used cygwin shell<\/acronym> to manage the batch logic. I chose to use the .png icons as my source.<\/p>\n

convert accept.png accept.gif<\/pre>\n
N.B.<\/b> dos has\/had a convert command so on windows you need to manage the PATH so that imagick’s bin folder is early in the path; I decided to explicitly invoke the command by its full hierarchical name. Here’s my code<\/a> to do a complete directory, now on github.bash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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