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DESCRIPTION
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TPicShow
is an image slider control with 172 transitional effects in
pure Delphi code. The major characteristics of TPicShow are:
- Image
transition can be controlled programmatically
- Image
can be stretched or centered in the client area of the control
- Control
can show a background image as centered, stretched, or tiled
- Transition
process can use a separate thread
- New
transitional effects can be easily implemented and added.
TDBPicShow
is the data-aware version of TPicShow with the ability to
load bitmap, jpeg, and metafile images (natively) from a blob
field. |
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WHAT'S
NEW
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Version 4.05 (January 27, 2007)
The Channel Mix effect is added. There is also a slight reordering of the effects. |
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Version 4.04 (July 1, 2006)
The AV Exception in adding a JPEG image to a blob field using TDBPicShow is fixed. |
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Version 4.03 (April 28, 2006)
Four more new transitional effects are added. |
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Version 4.02 (April 24, 2006)
Fifteen new transitional effects are included. Also, I added light reflection effect to the unroll transitions, so that these effects look much better. |
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Version 4.01 (April 16, 2006)
The code optimized some bit more, and a new method added. In addition, the demo program reconstructed. |
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Version 4.00 (April 14, 2006)
The control drastically optimized, so that the slide show of large images is possible now. There are also some new transitional effects, and some new properties in this update. By the way, the demo is updated too. On the demo program, double click on a picture to show the picture in full screen mode. |
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Version
3.10 (November 25, 2004)
The new property ExactTiming added to the components'
interface. |
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Version
3.09 (August 12, 2004)
The wrong signature of bitmap files fixed. [+] |
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Version
3.08 (December 6, 2003)
The native support for Windows Metafile (WMF) and Enhanced
Metafile (EMF) image formats added to TDPicShow. |
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Version
3.07 (November 17, 2003)
The algorithm of rotational effects (119..122) was optimized. |
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Version
3.06 (September 8, 2003)
The bug in setting StyleName property was fixed. |
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Version
3.05 (July 26, 2003)
The definition of the OnStart event changed. Now the event
passes the original image and its underlying screen as
two bitmaps to the handler. This change makes you able
to modify the image just before transition starts. The
other improvement in the new release is the new property
OverDraw. When this property is True, the control draws
the new transition over the last one, otherwise before
starting a new transition it clears the screen to the
background. |
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Version
3.04 (July 12, 2003)
The off-screen bitmap was not initialized, and because
of that in some cases for the first transition a white
pixel appeared on the top left corner of the control.
The bug has fixed now. |
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Version
3.03 (July 6, 2003)
The bug of corrupted image that was happened because of
loading an image in TDBPicShow fixed. |
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Version
3.02 (May 29, 2003)
The bad result on rendering stretched images on Windows
2000 and XP fixed. |
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Version
3.01 (May 8, 2003)
The code related to termination of the thread optimized. |
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Version
3.00 (February 16, 2003)
In purpose of adding new effects easier, functions related
to transition effects moved to a separate unit. By adding
23 new effects the number of total effects reached to
150. |
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Version
2.81.3 (January 11, 2003)
Reported bugs in TDBPicShow were fixed. |
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Version
2.81.2 (October 25, 2002)
The components prevented Windows for being shutdown. |
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Version
2.81.1 (September 28, 2002)
A
minor bug with a major effect on proportional scaling
of the image was fixed.
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Version
2.81 (September 26, 2002)
There was a memory leak on loading large images into
the control and TDBPicShow had a race condition problem
on the thread. Both of these bugs were fixed. In this
release, I have added a new event called OnGetGraphicClass
to TDBPicShow. By providing a handler for this event,
TDBPicShow can now load any TGraphic compatible image
into the control. By the way, I also optimized the rotate
effect algorithm (119..122). |
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Version
2.80 (September 10, 2002)
Control's thread optimized. The control no longer
calls the Delphi Synchronize function to synchronize
itself with the main VCL thread. As a result, no more
deadlock, faster thread termination, lower CPU usage,
and smoother transitions. However, because of this change,
the control can no longer be compiled as a non-windowed
control. Also, this version can safely change the value
of Manual, Progress, and Reverse properties as the last
step of a transition. A new event OnStop, has been added
which occurs when a transition is either completed or
aborted.
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Version
2.67 (June 5, 2002)
Bug in
releasing the thread fixed. |
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Version
2.66 (May 9, 2002)
Memory
leak bug fixed.
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Version
2.65 (March 8, 2002)
A minor bug in effect no 118 (Fade) fixed. |
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Version
2.64 (February 9, 2002)
A little improvement in performance. |
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Version
2.63 (January 14, 2002)
The last update had produced a bug in the control's thread,
which was fixed. In addition, a new event OnStart has
been added. Please read the ReadMe file (and demo) for
description of the new event. |
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DOWNLOAD
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picshow.zip
(1.07MB)
The components' source code, documentation, and two sample
applications for demonstrating the components' usage. |
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LIMITATION
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The control does not support image transparency. The transparent area of the images with transparency will fill with the control's color. |
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UTILIZED IN
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Portfolio
Pro
Portfolio Pro is a slide show application written by Gary
Bond. It packages up jpeg images into a self contained
slide show that you can e-mail or send to others. The
recipients do not need any other software to run the slide
show. |
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PhotoPlayer
PhotoPlayer is a standalone program for playing images
on CDs as well as on hard drives provided by UniDream
Technologies Inc. It includes features like automatic
search and play, very simple shortcut keys, custom background
image, 127 animation effects, four display modes including
a tile mode, picture frame, four view styles including
a minimal view, custom music list, user-defined comment
or caption, dynamic play interval, resumable play, on
top while playing, WYSIWYG CD autorun, cleanup and more.
Supports most common graphic formats including animated
GIF. |
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Zee-Troll
Zee-Troll is a slide show creator for CD presentation
by Pal Emil Lucian.
The slides can be various image files, MP3 files, AVI
files or animated GIFs. On the static images you can apply
over 120 animated effects. This slide show editor uses
transition effects between the images. |
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Nordler
Nordler,
which is written by Jan
Punter, can read instruction files that will allow
you control of MIDI devices. Nordler also has a built-in
slide show device which is able to show a timed sequence
of pictures. The pictures can be faded using a large set
of fade styles. |
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ViewPicXXL
ViewPicXXL
is an image viewer with all kinds of tools to work on
the images, written by Robert
Sonnabend. By the way, the application's user interface
is in German. |
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Imagick
Imagick is a complete cataloguing solution for jewellery industry, written by Jay Dubal. It has everything that you would require to show your designs. |
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Matrix_ks Screen Saver
This screen saver is written by Kelly Shipp, and uses the authentic Matrix font from The Matrix movie. |
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Image Leach
Image leach is a little software that can do a lot of things. Given a URL, typed or directly acquired from Internet Explorer via a button, it lists all the picture of that URL. It is also possible via a gadget of the mini web browser to display all the thumbnail pictures link (picture linking to another picture). You can therefore generate a HTML document including the selected picture link for future reference, save all pictures at once or only some of them. Of course you can preview all pictures before downloading them. Alternatively while the software stays on top of all applications, you can drag and drop a picture into the mini web browser and open the Internet Explorer context menu via a right click (Saving as, printing...). You can also preview all pictures inside the picture browser window and eventually rename, copy, move, delete part or all of them and create folder with a minimum of effort. A slide show of all the pictures is even possible. |
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QualiKEY
QualiKEY is the ultimate on-screen Keyboard which allows users with mobility impairments to type data directly into any Windows Applications. Instead of pushing keys on a real keyboard, simply point and click on QualiKEY on your computer screen. With QualiKEY you can directly control any Windows application, run and close applications, manage the tasks, shut down the computer, manage you own Start Menu, check the on-line help and much more. |
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IMPACT
The world's finest assessment, distance-travelled and planning aid using highly graphical approaches, Impact allows people, teams and organisations to assess where they currently stand in relation to dozens of different assessment models and then measure their later progress.
You can analyse you data in any way you wish and see the results in graphical formats. Impact is amazingly versatile, and can be used for performance management, personal development, classroom learning, health issues, work-life balance, enterprise development. In fact, anywhere where you want to set goals and see the distance you have travelled.
Quite simply, Impact Development Solutions is tailored to your exacting requirements; from education to professional sporting groups and corporate development solutions, trust Impact to deliver usable data in a graphic format you can actually use.
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Media-Album
Media-Album is a slide show program to create audio tracks and synchronize them with pictures.
This program (Visual audio realization) is complete with a lot of tools. For example, you can:
- Sort out pictures in chronological order (read and write in the "Jpeg Exif")
- Move or Order the images according to multiple options
- Duplicate images and add titles in dissolve or fade out
- Make an album without help, and distribute it to yours friends who can view it without preliminary installation of the software
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If
you have used TPicShow or TDBPicShow in your product, and
you would like your product to be listed here, please send
a link to your application's homepage and a brief description
about it to me via e-mail.
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