> I have binary image blobs stored in a database and want to 
> interpret them with Fl_Shared_Image, but this class expects 
> to read from a file. As a quick hack currently I write the 
> blob to a temporary file and then pass the file name to 
> Fl_Shared_Image.
> Any suggestions? Should I try extending Fl_Shared_Image to 
> take a buffer or is there a work around?

What format are the blobs in? 

Just in the last few days, someone posted code in this list for reading
PNG image data from RAM, and it would br trivial to write an equivalent
function for JPEG data...

If what you have is the "raw" binary data for the pixels, then something
like this might work for you:

http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L468


HTH,
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Ian

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