New Image Command: turn

Hitherto you could load an image file, resize it and that was it. Basically, the image file did little else. In one of my applications Scandocs which I use to create eBooks of various sorts, I wanted to view my double page scans the right way up. Hence this command. The timing of its creation pretty well coincides with the implementation of a similar command for the gnocl::pixBuf, and for one very good reason -they use the same library calls. Anyway, this is how it works:

set pb4 [gnocl::pixBuf load "wjg.jpg"]

set img1 [gnocl::image -image  "%?$pb4"]

set but1 [gnocl::button \

   -text "Turn" \

   -onClicked { $img1 turn 90 } ]

set box1 [gnocl::box -orientation vertical]

$box1 add $but1

$box1 add $img1 -fill {1 1} -expand 1

set win1 [gnocl::window \

   -child $box1 \

   -widthRequest 200 \

   -heightRequest 200 \

   -allowShrink 0 \

   -alllowGrow 0 ]

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