The GDI+ Controls allow you to implement controls that draw themselves using GDI+ rather that the normal windows GDI. In addition there are a few helper controls as well.
TGDIPWinControl
A TWincontrol descendant with a GDI+ Canvas. This is used to descend new controls utilising GDI+ rather than the standard GDI (TCustomControl)
TGDIPCanvas
A component similar to the delphi TPaintbox, but providing a GDI+ canvas and on Paint event instead.
TGDIPColorDisplay
A Color preview box, that renders a chequered background so you can see the Alpha-level of the color as well.
TGDIPFontCombo
A simple font selection Combo-box that populates it’s list from the GDI+ registered fonts.
TGDIPColorSelector / TColorSelectorDialog
A HSV and RGB Colour selector with support for specifying the Alpha value and returning a TGPColor.
TGDIPImageBrowser
A VirtualTree based drop down image browser for selection of an image from a directory or sub-directories.
GDIPExtensions
Various helper functions including
- MaintainAspect – Fits a Rectangle into another maintaining the aspect-ratio and allowing centering
- MakeRects that conver between TRect and TGPRect
- GPColorToColor – Convert a GDI+ Color to a TColor
- ColorAsHTML – Convert a GDI+ Colot ot it’s html representation.
GDI+ Controls are released as Freeware and GDI+Controls .
THE GDI+ Controls require some third-party libraries to compile and run:
GDI+ API wrapper by http://www.progdigy.com or download from gdiplus
HSV Library byhttp://www.efg2.com or download from HSV Library
You might want to get the latest versions from the original sites. Please honour their respective licensing.
One reply on “GDI+ Controls (Delphi)”
[…] […]