Max Rabkin wrote:

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Max Rabkin wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Try AC-EasyRaster-GTK.

Thanks, I'll give that a try

Having downloaded it, I must admit I was a bit put off by seeing things like init_system :: IO () process_event :: IO () wait_event :: IO () main_loop :: IO () in an image library.

But it's the best we've got right now, so I've got a couple questions: is it safe to call init_system more than once? And what do I need the event-handling functions for, if anything?

If all you want to do is load/save images and do pixel I/O on them, you can completely ignore process_event, wait_event, main_loop, etc. All you need to do is make sure you call init_system at the start of your program. (You see the ib_display function? If you want *that* to work properly, you need to run the GTK event loop, which is what these event-related functions are all about. If you're not trying to display the image on screen, you can ignore all that.) I should probably make the documentation clearer...