Is there any way to load image into the patch not using GEM?

As a side comment, I think that using .ppm files is the best choice. It's the only way I can get a good quality image.

(.gif works too, but image quality suffers a bit).

So, you cannot open a jpeg file in anyway in Puredata?

@raynovich you can open one as shown here http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/8616/jpeg-glitcher. however, I don't think you can load a jpeg directly into a Pd tk canvas. If GEM is installed you can view JPGs. http://puredata.info/downloads/gem/documentation/manual/manual/images

if you have tk8.6 installed you can display png images, but you have to edit the pd-gui.tcl file.
in third line there should be the path to the wish shell. You just need to change it to .../wish8.6. This worked for me on Archlinux. Then i loaded the image with moonlib/image.

edit: Just tried it on my Ubuntu installation and it works but you have to start pd with:
pasuspender --\usr\lib\pd-extended\tcl\pd-gui.tcl %F

If you run pd with "pd-extended" it still uses tcl/tk8.5. I don't know why. Can somebody explain that behavior?
You can check your current tcl version used by pd with hcs/tcl-version.

@cuinjune and @gsagostinho

"[...] indeed it seems that [size $1 $2( is broken, and I really don't know why".

It's not broken. Let me show you what I mean by a really rude explanation.

You can keep visual track of the size of the selection area just by selecting everything.

Have a nice day!

@LandonPD you are totally right, Landon, I found that out after posting here. And by the way, have you ever tried the new [image] object in Pd-l2Ork? It's vastly superior to the one in pd-extended. I am attempting to compile it for pd-extended and Linux 64-bit, and if I succeed I will share it here. Take care! Gilberto

@gsagostinho said:

"I found that out after posting here".

Yes, I imagined that immediately. But I posted the wild pic all the same, so that our understanding of this popular object becomes better.

Cordially, Landon

Hi,

I there a way to load the GIF into a patch so that it sits under the all the workings of the patch? Like a background on the canvas?

Thanks

@gsagostinho said:

@LandonPD you are totally right, Landon, I found that out after posting here. And by the way, have you ever tried the new [image] object in Pd-l2Ork? It's vastly superior to the one in pd-extended. I am attempting to compile it for pd-extended and Linux 64-bit, and if I succeed I will share it here. Take care! Gilberto

Pd-l2ork/Purr Data have a bugfixed ggee/image that works pretty well and should handle pngs and I think jpegs, too. Both also have moonlib/image which has a more complicated interface and-- for trivial uses-- a small memory leak.

Purr Data also has [draw image] which has a transform method you can use to scale the image size, and [draw sprite] to handle image sequences.