Arthur Elsenaar wrote:

>  what I like to do, is reading arbitrary images coming in over a socket
>  and display them _as they arrive_, so when a chunk is in, immediatly
>  display it (in pygame).
>   From the PIL documentation, I can see that one needs to use the
>  frombuffer() method and feed that to pygame using the fromstring()
>  method. Also I understand the pygame.load() function needs a complete
>  file like object (StringIO), so how does one go about partly displaying
>  these incoming data chunks? Do I need to use the PIL parse function
>  somehow? Do I need to pad the missing data?

while PIL can decode things incrementally, there's no (reliable) way to
get access to incomplete image data.  maybe in 1.1.6 ?

(but I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this one)

</F> 




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