Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hello there,

the problem is:

1) I render some images with another software and I don't know when this render ends
2) after that I would like to composite those images with imagemagik

is there any way to "tell" imagemagik to wait for the images to be done and then make the composite?

thanks!

Nicola

No.

However you could write a shell script to watch an image and when it it nolonger updating for a some period of time, start IM on the image.

The Linux system also have software an tools which coule posibly be used to watch a programs IO connection to some file and notify you when the program closes the write stream.

In other words non-IM and specifically other system tools will be needed to determine when the renderer is finished, if there is no way the renderer itself can report this (like creating a 'finished' file).