Has anyone used or know of any component that will allow you to transision between two images, say fade, disolove,push etc,like what can be done with video editing software.

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> Has anyone used or know of any component that will allow you to transision 
> between two images, say fade, disolove,push etc,like what can be done with 
> video editing software.

http://www.delphiarea.com/products/delphi-components/picshow/

Andrew

Thanks for that Andrew, have downloaded their zip file and compiled it, but it is missing an inc file so I will have a look later.  It appears however, that it is only required for the demo so I might hack up something simple and try it out.  This is exactly the sort of thing I was after.  It doesn't show examples of video transitions though, do you know if they will work?  It appears you just need to pass a handle to the each of the images, so maybe it will.

I was given a higher priority job to work on yesterday so it may be a little while before I get back to it, hopefully by the end of the week.

> {quote:title=Andrew Jameson wrote:}{quote}
>  wrote in message news:525084@forums.embarcadero.com...
> > Has anyone used or know of any component that will allow you to transision 
> > between two images, say fade, disolove,push etc,like what can be done with 
> > video editing software.
> 
> http://www.delphiarea.com/products/delphi-components/picshow/
> 
> Andrew

There's not much more that I can add.  I have used this code on a couple of 
projects - many years ago now, so any detail I once possessed is now in the 
dim recesses of my mind !  I do not understand your references to video 
transitions ?  PicShow has all the usual and expected selections of fades 
and wipes and is specific to images and not video.

Andrew

I might get a chance to try something out at the end of the week, so I will know then if the missing include file is important, if it is critical I will see if I can find it in a search (funny how it wasn't in the zip file).  It appears to wrap a series of Windows API calls so the transition wrapper class should be fairly self contained.

I think most of the time we will be disolving between images, if we transition between videos, we might have to settle for something simple.

> {quote:title=Andrew Jameson wrote:}{quote}
> There's not much more that I can add.  I have used this code on a couple of 
> projects - many years ago now, so any detail I once possessed is now in the 
> dim recesses of my mind !  I do not understand your references to video 
> transitions ?  PicShow has all the usual and expected selections of fades 
> and wipes and is specific to images and not video.
> 
> Andrew

I found my missing file and after looking through the example I was able to get something working in a couple of hours.  In total it takes about 20 lines of code to be able to select a transition effect and show it on my application.  It has saved me heaps of time :-)

Thanks
Trevor


> {quote:title=Andrew Jameson wrote:}{quote}
> There's not much more that I can add.  I have used this code on a couple of 
> projects - many years ago now, so any detail I once possessed is now in the 
> dim recesses of my mind !  I do not understand your references to video 
> transitions ?  PicShow has all the usual and expected selections of fades 
> and wipes and is specific to images and not video.
> 
> Andrew