FFI would certainly work, there is a fair amount of it in Croquet as  
an example for the Open/GL support.

Quicktime provides translation services, also there are other os-x  
subsystems that convert from one form of image data to another now.


On 8-Sep-05, at 3:47 PM, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:

> John M McIntosh puso en su mail :
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>> I altered the mac services plugin, the os-x plugin, that lets you
>> access the OS-X Services Menu to support different data types than  
>> TEXT.
>>
>> So now you can ask the Grab service for the TIFF image of the screen,
>> or sent a UTF-16 string to TextEdit.
>>
>> Revised instructions, change sets, and the plugin are found on
>>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html
>>
>> experimental directory
>>
>> macservices directory
>>
> John:
> I using Image Events via AppleScript from inside Squeak, this way  
> could do
> some image conversion.
> Wish know if possible use via FFI .
> Any tips or reading material.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Edgar
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