GIF loading Reportbuilder DBIMAGE Component.

rbuser

Hello again..

In other word.. How is the best way to save GIF image in BLOB field that can
be retrieved from TDBImage Component of Reportbuilder. ?

rbuser

Hi Ricardo,

there is nothing special with storing/restoring GIFs in BLOBs, use 'TBlobStream' or any descendant.


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Article: ReportBuilder Image Support
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ReportBuilder natively supports .bmp, .jpeg, .wmf, .ico image formats.

ReportBuilder has an open architecture that supports any TGraphic
descendant.

For example, ReportBuilder ships with a freeware component called
GIFImage that can be used with ReportBuilder to print .gif images. (see
the main report demo app for an example.)

There is another freeware component called GraphicEx that
supports several additional formats - including tiff, targa, and
autodesk.

It can be downloaded from:

http://www.lischke-online.de/Graphics.html


ReportBuilder can easily support TGraphic descendants
with a simple register call.

Below is the code to our ppGIF.pas unit which
'uses' and registers the freeware GIFImage component.


{********************************************************************}
{ }
{ ReportBuilder Report Component Library }
{ }
{ Copyright (c) 1996, 2000 Digital Metaphors Corporation }
{ }
{********************************************************************}

unit ppGIF;

interface

{$I ppIfDef.pas}

uses
ppCtrls, GIFImage;

implementation

{***************************************************************
*
** I N I T I A L I Z A T I O N / F I N A L I Z A T I O N
*
{****************************************************************}

initialization

ppRegisterGraphicClass('GIF', TGIFImage);

finalization

ppUnRegisterGraphicClass(TGIFImage);

end.



regards,
Chris Ueberall;