On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:17:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara) wrote: >Can someone please point out where my reasoning is flawed >concerning base64 encoding. > >A question recently came up in the Tk newsgroup on how to >display a jpg image with Tk, directly from a url. > >I could easily do it if I mirrored a temporary jpg file on the local >harddrive, then displayed it; but to do it by displaying what is in >memory alone, required MIME::Base64 encoding.
Nevermind, a Tk expert informed me that Tk still requires data to be "printable characters", which seems to explain it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]