bit-mapped graphics in Q/kdb

Is there a way to do bit-mapped graphics in Q?  Black-and-white binary images are fine. I see that I can do various kinds of plots in qStudio, but not images. I’m attempting to do this on various Windows systems.

That’s a coincidence, Stuart.

I was just writing a Direct2D graphics extension for kdb+w32.

But in the meantime, you can just write the image to a .bmp file (or any simple bitmap file format) and then run

q)system "mspaint ",x

where x is your filename.

of course, I haven’t tested this myself :)

Ta, 

Jack.

Cool! I think your graphics extension would open up kdb+w32 to a whole new range of applications. Please keep us up to date on this project. Meanwhile, I’ll try out your suggested approach.

-Stu S.

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