ImageLib contains a DLL and four VCL components which allow you to inexpensively add image support to your applications. The data aware components will add image and multimedia BLOB support to your database applications. All of the ImageLib components include a Printing procedure, scrolling message editor, localization error string support. (ImageLib Pro Combo supports Delphi 1.x & 2.x)

System Requirements

• Windows 3.1 or Windows 95/NT
• IBM-PC 386 or later
• Full install: 2.8 MB of disk space
• Installation: under 2 minutes

Features

• Royalty-free!
• Images, text, video and sound in one tool
• Supported Formats: JPEG, BMP, GIF, WMF, SCM, CMS, ICO, PCX, TIF, PNG CMS, AVI, MOV, MID, WAV, And RMI Formats The 32-bit version also supports RTF
• Read/write JPEG, BMP, GIF, WMF, SCM, ICO and PCX images to/from a file, and display scrolling text images
• Effective error trapping
• Ultra-fast and easy implementation
• Museum-quality images in seconds
• Load and run sample Delphi projects to explore ImageLib’s capabilities.
• Procedure to add image printing support with one line of code.
• Read/write JPEG, GIF, PCX, BMP, WMF, ICO, SCM, AVI, MOV, MID, WAV and RMI multimedia files to/from a Blob field, and display scrolling text blobs.
• JPEG support including grayscale, text over image, and text rotation
• Load and run a sample Delphi project to explore it's data-aware features.
• Automatically enable/disable playback of AVI, MOV, MID, WAV and RMI multimedia files, protecting your application from crashes due to missing multimedia drivers.
• Sample Delphi project to gives an overview of properties and functionality.
• Run and load two additional sample Delphi projects (DBSIMP.DPR, MAIL_ORD.DPR) to see these components in action.
• Cut, copy, and paste images to/from the Windows clipboard.
• Enable all image formats 4,8 and 24 bits dithering.
• JPEG save quality 0 to 100.
• JPEG save smoothing 0 to 100.
• Solve Delphi's 256-color palette bug.
• Create and edit message files using the internal scrolling message editor.
• Use the DLL's callback function to show progress bar, process Messages, and cancel operation.
• Retrieve File/Blob information without actually opening the file.
• Localize error strings; strings are stored in DLL resource.
• Ratio stretch/flip/rotate images.
• Optional automatic color reduction/dithering.
• Text over images and text rotation.
• Open dialog preview boxes for images/video/sound.
• Fully TWAIN and multi-platform compliant
• Do Twain scanning to a file or BLOB database field.
• Use the video frame grabber to catch video images.
• Explore ImageLib's VCL source code and Delphi examples.

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theEdge - an add-on for ImageLib

The ImageLib Combo includes both the 16-bit and 32-bit versions of the product. theEdge supports 16-bit and 32-bit applications.
Unysis may require a royalty for applications developed using GIF and TIFF LZW. Otherwise, ImageLib is royalty-free.