Thursday, February 04, 2010
GDIPPictureContainer Editor
GDIPPictureContainer use
Many components have the capability to show images, either from an imagelist or a GDI+ picturecontainer or sometimes both. The GDIPPictureContainer makes it easy to use and embed PNG, JPEG, ICO, BMP, GIF and TIFF images in your applications. The major advantage of the GDIPPictureContainer is that it allows to store images just once in the DFM file and allow to reuse it in different components. The GDIPPictureContainer could be dropped on a datamodule and can be shared between different forms.
First a GDIPPictureContainer component must be dropped on the form and linked to the component.
Previously, adding images at design time to the GDIPPictureContainer was done via a simple collection editor:
With this collection editor, a picture could be loaded for each item in the collection and a name could be set. The process quickly becomes tedious though as you cannot easily see at design time the picture that is behind each item in the collection:
GDIPPictureContainer Editor
To make the use of the GDIPPictureContainer easier and more straightforward, we have designed a special new design time editor. With this design time editor, you have a visual presentation of the images in the GDIPPictureContainer as well as a quick visual overview of available images in folders on your hard disk. Adding images to the GDIPPictureContainer now becomes as straightforward as drag & drop from the image folder to the GDIPPictureContainer picture list.
The power of TAdvSmoothImageListBox
The components that are used for the picture list overview and the image browser are both a TAdvSmoothImageListBox. Below is a list of the included features:
- Drag and drop one or multiple images from the image browser to the picture list.
- Double click on an item in the picture list to change the name.
- Change the view of the picture list or the image browser with a splitter or change the number of columns.
- Browse easily and fast through different folders on your system.
- Fast overview of all added images to the GDIPPictureContainer
- Fast loading & smooth animated scrolling through thousands of images
- Quickly remove and add pictures with one click
- Keyboard lookup based on image name
This new editor will be available in the next version of the TMS Component Pack, and the TMS Smooth Controls Pack
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Pieter Scheldeman
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Friday, October 02, 2009
Introducing TMS FTPUploader, a small free utility for your daily email routine
The daily routine to send something to a user via email It becomes increasingly difficult these days to send an email with an attachment. Different email servers implement different filtering techniques for emails with attachments. Especially for support this is quickly becoming frustrating, both for the sender and the receiver. The sender does not know whether an email actually arrived at the receiver or if the email was answered or if the answer simply didn't arrive. A solution is to no longer send the file as attachment but to make it available as download and just send the download link. Now, while convenient for the receiver, it quickly becomes a repetitive annoying and error-prone task for the sender:
- Locate the file
- Open an application to connect to an FTP server
- Remember the corresponding hyperlink to send in the email
The FTP server information must be configured once by starting the application and clicking the "Configuration" link.The file can also be uploaded to the FTP server by "drag-dropping" the file on to the icon.
After uploading the file the link is copied to the clipboard.
Free download of our FTPUploader app Under the motto "eat your own dogfood", we uploaded this free little useful utility to an FTP server. You can download it at this hyperlink pasted from the clipboard: http://www.tmssoftware.net/public/FTPUploader.zip
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Pieter Scheldeman