PixeLook - image processing components for Delphi 6, Version 3.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PixeLook Development Group E-mail: support@pixelook.com Homepage: www.pixelook.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document contains the following information: LICENSE INFORMATION HOW TO ORDER INSTALL THE COMPONENTS INSTALL THE IMAGE PROCESSING PLUGINS UN-INSTALL THE SOFTWARE RUN THE DEMO RUN THE DEMO WITH PLUGIN SUPPORT FIRST F.A.Q YOUR COMMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LICENSE INFORMATION: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read the file license.txt for information about the License agreement. HOW TO ORDER: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit www.pixelook.com for detailed information on ordering and registration. INSTALL THE COMPONENTS: ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After dowloading the software unzip it to the directory of your choice. The software is installed into the following directories Components and units: Dir\Delphi6\ Dir\Delphi7\ Sample programs (source code): Dir\Samples\ Plugins: Dir\Plugins\ Help file Dir\Doc\ Additional stuff: Dir\Misc\ Windows XP manifest file: Dir\WinXPTheme Where "Dir" designates the target directory. -------------------------***************************-------------------------- First, run the 'DELPHI 6 PREPARE.BAT' if you are going to work in Delphi 6, or run the 'DELPHI 7 PREPARE.BAT' if you are going to work in Delphi 7 -------------------------***************************-------------------------- Open the package PixeLook.dpk in Delphi IDE (menu File/Open project or by double clicking on the file PixeLook.dpk in the Explorer). Click the INSTALL button in the package window. New page 'PixeLook' will be added to the component palette. INSTALL THE IMAGE PROCESSING PLUGINS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just copy Dir\Plugins\ZPlug*.(bpl,dcp) files to the {$DELPHI}/Projects/Bpl directory ({$DELPHI} is a directory where the Delphi is installed) UN-INSTALL THE SOFTWARE: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Delphi IDE, select the Component/Install Packages menu. In the dialog locate and select the "PixeLook - image processing", and click the Remove button. Manually delete PixeLook.bpl, PixeLook.dcp, ZPlug*.bpl, ZPlug*.dcp from {$DELPHI}/Projects/Bpl directory. RUN THE DEMO: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open the project Dir\Samples\AdvImageViewer\AdvImageViewer.dpr in Delphi. IDE can show the message that it needs to re-create Project1.res. In this case press 'Yes' and run the program. If IDE cannot find some files from the PixeLook package set search path to the directory Dir\Lib where the package has been unzipped (Select Menu Project/Options. In the dialog select Directories//Conditionals/Search Path). In the demo you can open single BMP-image and sequences of BMP-images. Using advanced image viewer (menu View/Advanced) you can analyze and process the image. Also you can edit and save a vector information. RUN THE DEMO WITH PLUGIN SUPPORT: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be sure that the option 'Build with runtime packages' (Menu Project/Options/Packages) is switched on. In the edit box you can leave only PixeLook package. After running the application all plugins will be automatically loaded and additional 'plugins' button appears in advanced image viewer. If you have a licensed source code of the software then any plugins can be linked to your program statically. FIRST F.A.Q. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Can I view JPEG (GIF,TIFF ....) image using PixeLook components? A: The package works only with BMP image format (8 bit grayscale and indexed color, 24- and 32- bit colour images). Also it supports its own DIB-like data format for non-standard data types (byte, integer, float, double). The purpose of the package was to work with internal properties of images (research projects connected with image processing). There are many libraries that deal with different graphic formats and we do not want to reproduce such work. We would recommend the GraphicEx library (Delphi Gems web-site). Using this library you can convert more than 50 graphic formats into BMP with a few lines of code. Q: Sometimes I can see the text 'Unregistered version'at the bottom of the image... A: This means that you use a trial version. It is fully functional one without time limit and without any nag-screens. After registration a patch will be sent by email which removes the reminder message. Q: How to zoom the image in a window. A: Use CTRL+Mouse click to zoom in, ALT +Mouse click to zoom out, SHIFT+Mouse click for easy navigation in image. Q: When I select a vector object and move the mouse to the toolbar to delete the object (delete a node, decrease or increase smoothness ...) the object become unselected and I can not perform the command. A: Select the object, press the SHIFT key and go to the toolbar. All graphic layers do not work when SHIFT, ALT or CTRL are pressed. You also can use the context menu for such operations. Q: When I work with Aperture in the image viewer I can not fix an image fragment inside the aperture window because it always follows the mouse. A: Use SHIFT key. YOUR COMMENTS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send us a note if you have any comments or suggestions on how to improve our components. The address is provided above, and we would realy like to hear your great ideas! PixeLook Development Group 21 April 2003