Hello alll,
Apologies if this isn't the correct list.
I'm getting my feet wet with the Python Imaging Library (PIL) 1.1.6 on
Python 2.5.1. I have played around quite a bit with transparent GIFs,
and from what I can tell, PIL should support what I want to do -
except I can't seem to get it to work.
I have a large number of smallish icons (GIFs with transparency) that
I'd like to tile into a grid in one large GIF image. The background
color of the image should be GIF-transparent. Currently, I can set it
to be white or black or any other color I want, just not transparent.
My current code:
import os, sys
from PIL import Image, ImageColor
# size in pixels of each row/col
ROWSIZE = 50
COLSIZE = 50
# maxwidth of sprite grid
SPRITEWIDTH = 20
MAXWIDTH = COLSIZE*SPRITEWIDTH
FILENAME = '/static/images/icons.gif'
def merge():
pwd = os.getcwd()
imagePath = os.path.join(pwd, 'images')
# Somehow, I need to ensure the palette used in the sprite image
# is the same as the individual icons
sprites = Image.new('RGBA', (MAXWIDTH, MAXWIDTH), (253,253,253,0))
sprites.putalpha(0)
palette = None
colors = []
col = 10
row = 10
for f in os.listdir(imagePath):
try:
im = Image.open(os.path.join(imagePath, f))
if im.size[0] <= 20 and im.size[1] <= 20 and im.format ==
'GIF':
sprites.paste(im.copy(), (col, row))
print 'url(/static/images/%s) =url(%s) -%dpx -%dpx'
% (f, FILENAME, col, row)
col += COLSIZE
if col >= MAXWIDTH:
row += ROWSIZE
col = 10
if row >= sprites.size[1]:
break
except IOError, ex:
pass
sprites = sprites.crop((0,0,MAXWIDTH, row)).point(lambda pt: pt ==
(253, 253, 253, 0) and 0 or pt)
return sprites
So this code is obviously littered with the detritus of failed
attempts to get transparency to work. Has anyone out there had any
experience with this?
Thanks,
David
