TGifImage component
From this page you can download my TGifImage component.
Before you do that, you should be aware of its advantages,
disadvantages and the alternatives:
Advantages
- It's free
- With complete source code
- Compiles under Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Delphi 3 and Delphi 4
- Decoding, encoding, animation: it does all this.
Disadvantages
- It is not very fast; for offline encoding and decoding images
this is no problem, but if you want to use it more heaviliy
this may be a real disadvantage
- Can't be installed in the component palette (don't try this,
it creates trouble if you do this), but only works when created
at run time.
- Although it's been tested rather thoroughly and working well
with a very large set of GIF images, there are some special cases
in which it doesn't work
- I hardly support it anymore; I have decided that working on
the TGifImage took too much of my time; in fact, it had practically
stopped my work on the Delphi Bug List for almost half a year
(but I really started again around March 1998)
Alternative
I mention just this one because it's the only I know which is
good, free and with source. And on his page you can find
information about all the other 'competitors'.
- Anders Melander's
TGifImage. It's very well-tested, versatile, fast, free and
with source code.
It has just one serious disadvantage that I know of, and that's that it
does not work with Delphi 1.
Download
If you want to try it, please go ahead and
download my TGifImage component
(version 2.60
; 25 Nov 1998; 133 kb).
Reinier Sterkenburg, 25 November 1998.