using imlib2 and gtk2

Question

Hi,

Can I use imlib2 with gtk2 or is it better to use it with Qt for image manipulation ? Or if someone knows if I can use imlib2 with free pascal and/or java that would be great.

Thanks in advance

Mike

Answer 1

What are you trying to do?

I wouldn't use Qt/gtk2 for "image manipulation" if you actually mean "image processing". There are several open source image processing libraries, take a look at the ImageMagick API interface, linked here, which has bindings for many images. There's also the gd image library available for programmatic image generation, and it has bindings in many languages.

Answer 2

The fastest way for screen scraping would be to use XGetImage which is part of Xlib and thus you do not need ANY additional library or toolkit. Check also this