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Jlouro
Jlouro

Reputation: 4545

Image/photo frames

Is there any good component for Delphi to create a frame like the messenger frame around a photo?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 594

Answers (2)

Arnaud Bouchez
Arnaud Bouchez

Reputation: 43033

Take a look at our MicroPic very small tool. http://bouchez.info/micropic.html

You've got the source code on the page. It could be interesting for you, as start for drawing a custom frame to any picture. I wrote this years ago, just to help my girl friend with her web site, without using photoshop before inserting pictures...

Upvotes: 1

Andreas Rejbrand
Andreas Rejbrand

Reputation: 108963

This frame is basically just a bitmap. There seems not to be any function in the Windows API to draw this. Instead, a previous questioner here at SO found that this (or at least a very similar) bitmap is stored as a resource bitmap in explorer.exe, if I recall correctly.

Hence, to write a Delphi component displaying a bitmap inside such a frame would be trivial -- one just have to copy this bitmap. However, I feel this would be wrong (copyvio or at least bad manners). But of course you can draw your own version of a frame /using The GIMP or Photoshop/, and include it as a bitmap.

Also notice that it is very easy to apply bitmap effects, such as hue shifts, to a bitmap during run-time.

Upvotes: 3

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