Filling with image [duplicate] - image

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Image covering whole page in Inno Setup
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I am using the following code to add a background image,
function Page1_Create: TWizardPage;
var
Page1: TWizardPage;
// Fonts
// Pictures
PictureBox2_PictureName: String;
// Controls
PictureBox2: TBitmapImage;
begin
// This is a page creator Function. You can use the Result of it to access the controls on this Page.
Page1 := CreateCustomPage(wpWelcome, 'Title', 'Subtitle');
{ PictureBox2 (TBitmapImage) }
PictureBox2 := TBitmapImage.Create(Page1);
PictureBox2.Parent := Page1.Surface;
PictureBox2.Enabled := True;
PictureBox2.Visible := True;
PictureBox2.Left := ScaleX(0);
PictureBox2.Top := ScaleY(0);
PictureBox2.Width := ScaleX(513);
PictureBox2.Height := ScaleY(302);
PictureBox2.Anchors := [akLeft, akTop, akRight, akBottom];
PictureBox2.Stretch := True;
PictureBox2_PictureName := ExpandConstant('{tmp}\purple-skin.bmp');
ExtractTemporaryFile(ExtractFileName(PictureBox2_PictureName));
PictureBox2.Bitmap.LoadFromFile(PictureBox2_PictureName);
// Result is the newly created Page (TWizardPage).
Result := Page1;
end;
procedure InitializeWizard;
begin
PageWelcome_Create()
end;
But this does not fill the entire background. It fills like as shown by the image below,
How to fill the entire background?
Also, how to add images to the Title section (fill the entire title bar) at top and command button section (fill the entire bottom bar) at bottom?

TLDR: Your code is correct, simply repeat it for each page and the title and bottom part of the form + adjust the controls positions and dimensions (posting whole code is beyond the SO, it would be hundreds of lines of code).
Detailed answer:
Filling the entire background is quite tricky. The setup form consists of several "layers" of components placed on it.
There is no such thing as "background", there is a WizardForm: TWizardForm containing OuterNotebook: TNewNotebook which contains InnerNotebook: TNewNotebook which represents the individual pages of the installer, see https://github.com/jrsoftware/issrc/blob/main/Projects/Wizard.dfm for details.
So you need to create several images: first for title section, second for all setup pages (I assume all pages have the same dimensions) and third for bottom section.
Each control has its own handle and custom position (relative to its parent so you need to play with updating control's Left and Top position) and also there is some "space" around the controls which can be minimized by adjusting the WIdth and Height of the control.
Then load these images and show them in some control e.g. TBitmapImage as you did.
Also do not forget to handle the page refreshing.
This require a lot of work in vanilla Inno Setup. As this question is quite often I have developed a 3rd party extension specially designed for this purpose.
It is called Graphical Installer: http://www.graphical-installer.com
Please try it (it is commercial but costs only few bucks and save you hundreds of hours of work) and let me know whether it suits your needs.

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How to load large bitmap in FMX (fire monkey)

I am trying to create a Manga viewer which needs to load JPG images with large sizes like 1000*16000, my application is in delphi FMX and i have already tried using TImage, TImageViewer, TImageControl but all of them use TBitmap which trims the size to 8192 after loading the image
I tried searching for image libraries but i was unable to find anything for FMX (firemonkey)
I was thinking maybe i could load the image in a Memory stream and then copy and draw it in smaller sizes to several bitmaps ? but i don't how can i read and parse the memory stream and only pick to a certain clean height !
In the end i'm looking for a way to load and show these large (1000*16000) images in Delphi FMX
I am using delphi 10.2.3
Thanks.
Edit 01 :
I think i have found a way that might make things easy, i added the Vcl.Imaging.jpeg to uses clause in the FMX (FireMonkey) and then i used TJPEGImage and loaded the image, and i printed the width and height and they are correct and not trimmed ! so i was thinking, maybe i can read each pixel from TJPEGImage.canvas and then print it into FMX TBitmap ?, what do you think about this approach ?, do you know a good way to copy the data inside TJPEGImage to FMX TBitmap ?
Edit 02 :
I have found a new solution, the TBitmapSurface, it seems this class doesn't have the TBitmap limitations and i was able to load the image inside of it without getting trimmed ! but there is a problem! how can i give this to TImage ? if i simply say Image.bitmap.assign(TBitmapsurface), then the image gets trimmed again ! so it seems the only possible way is rewriting the TImage so it uses TBitmapSurface instead of TBitmap, any help regarding this issue is appreciated, thanks.
Here is the code for the TBitmapSurface :
bitmapSurf := TBitmapSurface.Create;
TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile(path, bitmapSurf);
Unlike FMX.Graphics.TBitmap which has a size limitations of 8192 * 8192, FMX.Surface.TBitmapSurface seems to support up to 16k * 16k and possibly even more (i haven't tested), so using FMX.Surface.TBitmapSurface you can load the image without getting trimmed, and then you can easily split it into two FMX.Graphics.TBitmap (or possible more parts using the same approach)
Below you can see the code which first loads the JPG into TBitmapSurface, and then the code which splits that into two TBitmap :
var
srce, dest: TBitmapSurface;
path: string;
scan: integer;
w, h1, h2: integer;
begin
path := 'C:\tmp\Imgs\res.bmp';
srce := TBitmapSurface.Create;
TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile(path, srce);
dest := TBitmapSurface.Create;
// first half
w := srce.Width;
h1 := srce.Height div 2;
dest.SetSize(w, h1, TPixelFormat.RGBA);
for scan := 0 to h1-1 do
Move(srce.Scanline[scan]^, TBitmapSurface(dest).Scanline[scan]^, srce.Width * 4);
Image1.Bitmap.Assign(dest);
// second half
h2 := srce.Height - h1;
dest.SetSize(w, h2, TPixelFormat.RGBA);
for scan := h1 to srce.Height-1 do
Move(srce.Scanline[scan]^, TBitmapSurface(dest).Scanline[scan-h1]^, srce.Width * 4);
Image2.Bitmap.Assign(dest);
end;
This answer was provided using the comments on the first post and the answer to my other question:
How to draw FMX.Surface.TBitmapSurface on FMX.Graphics.TBitmap

Delphi use of CopyRect from bmp to image

I have such code
source.Picture.LoadFromFile(fName);
buffer.Assign(source.Picture.Bitmap);
buffer.Canvas.CopyRect(rect(0,0,buffer.Width,buffer.Height), target.Canvas, rect(0,0,buffer.Width,buffer.Height));
And it won't work.
There are better ways to load image, but I want to play with them.
The main reason is to load smaller images,
So it's correct to copy canvas rect, but it not shows single pixel...
Objects are initialized and scaled except for target which I want to contain more than one image.
I supose there is no need for writing what types are objects, all needed are classes procedures that shows what are what.
I wonder whats wrong? I tried many ways, but simple nothing.
Please help.
Probably source is TImage, buffer is TBitmap, target is also TImage (you should mention it in your question so we don't have to guess).
In this case, the second line would work only when you load from .BMP because only these have bitmap populated. If you have .png or .jpeg instead, the second line would erase the actual picture and replace it with empty bitmap... Not very intuitive behaviour but it's documented at least.
To work with arbitrary graphic, you should use TCanvas.Draw method which in turn calls TGraphic.Draw(). As you can see from description, it draws the graphic you loaded into the canvas at given rectangle. Something like that:
source.Picture.LoadFromFile(fName);
target.Canvas.Draw(0, 0, source.Picture.Graphic);
UPD.
If you want to scale arbitrary picture, it could be done this way:
source.picture.loadFromFile(fName);
buffer.Width := source.picture.Width;
buffer.Height := source.picture.Height;
buffer.PixelFormat := pf24bit;
buffer.Canvas.Draw(0, 0, source.picture.Graphic);
//so we at last have bitmap containing our image in original size
target.Canvas.CopyRect(Rect(0, 0, NewWidth, NewHeight), buffer.canvas, Rect(0, 0, buffer.Width, buffer.Height));
Here NewWidth and NewHeight are image size we want.
By the way, you don't need source: TImage if it is just temporary object to load from file. TPicture would be enough:
var pic: TPicture;
pic := TPicture.Create;
try
pic.LoadFromFile(fName);
...
buffer.Canvas.Draw(0, 0, pic.Graphic);
finally
pic.free;
end;

Why might the scaling of SetWindowExtEx be just wrong?

I am trying to scale images/text etc using MM_ANISTROPIC and what I've done is the following (by the way if the syntax is a little weird, it's originally from delphi so treat the following as pseudocode)
I would expect the following code to produce a rectangle that is 70% of the width of the PaintBox and 30% of the height, yet it doesn't, instead it it noticeably too small.
SetMapMode(hdc,MM_ANISOTROPIC);
SetWindowExtEx(hdc,100,100,0);
SetViewportExtEx(hdc,70,30,0);
Rectangle(hdc, 0,0,PaintBox.width-1,PaintBox.Height-1);
if, on the other hand I change the code so that the SetWindowExtEx has 91 instead of 100 as its parameters (as shown below) then it works, which makes no sense to me at all...
SetMapMode(hdc,MM_ANISOTROPIC);
SetWindowExtEx(hdc,91,91,0);
SetViewportExtEx(hdc,70,30,0);
Rectangle(hdc, 0,0,PaintBox.width-1,PaintBox.Height-1);
My sanity test case was to add the following pseudocode
SetMapMode(hdc,MM_TEXT);
DrawLine(hdc,Round(PaintBox.width*0.7),0,Round(PaintBox.width*0.7),PaintBox.Height-1);
DrawLine(hdc,0,Round(PaintBox.height*0.3),PaintBox.width-1,Round(PaintBox.height*0.3));
I would have expected this to overwrite the lower / bottom edges of my original Rectangle but it does not unless I uses that 91,91 SetWindowExtEx.
Can anyone duplicate this?
FURTHER EDIT: Here is my exact original code I had given pseudo code before to make the question more accessible to non-delphi users but one of my commenters wanted full code to see if my contention that it was a delphi quirk was true or not.
The entire project consisted of a VCL form with a rectangular paintbox dropped on it centered so there was space all around it, and its onPaint event was set to the code below resulting in this image::
procedure TForm11.PaintBox2Paint(Sender: TObject);
var
hdc:THandle;
res:TPoint;
procedure SetupMapMode;
begin
SetMapMode(hdc,MM_ANISOTROPIC);
SetWindowExtEx(hdc,100,100,0);
SetViewportExtEx(hdc,70,30,0);
// These lines are required when we're painting to a TPaintBox but can't be used
// if we're paiting to a TPanel and they were NOT in my original question but only
// got added as part of the answer
// SetViewportOrgEx(hdc,PaintBox2.Left,PaintBox2.Top,#ZeroPoint);
// SetWindowOrgEx(hdc,0,0,#ZeroPoint);
end;
begin
//draw a rectangle to frame the Paintbox Surface
PaintBox2.Canvas.Pen.Style:=psSolid;
PaintBox2.Canvas.Pen.width:=2;
PaintBox2.Canvas.Pen.Color:=clGreen;
PaintBox2.Canvas.Brush.Style:=bsClear;
PaintBox2.Canvas.Rectangle(0,0,PaintBox2.Width-1,PaintBox2.Height-1);
PaintBox2.Canvas.Brush.Style:=bsSolid;
//initialize convenience variable
hdc:=PaintBox2.Canvas.Handle;
SetTextAlign(hdc,TA_LEFT);
//as doing things to the PaintBox2.Canvas via Delphi's interface tends to reset
//everything, I'm ensuring the map mode gets set **immediately** before
//each drawing call
SetupMapMode;
/// Draw Text at the bottom of the PaintBox2.Canvas (though as it's mapped it
/// SHOULD be 1/3 of the way down and much smaller instead)
TextOut(hdc,200,PaintBox2.Height-PaintBox2.Canvas.TextHeight('Ap'),'Hello, World!',13);
PaintBox2.Canvas.Pen.Color:=clblue;
PaintBox2.Canvas.Brush.Style:=bsClear;
//ensure it's set before doing the rectangle
SetupMapMode;
// Redraw the same rectangle as before but in the mapped mode
Rectangle(hdc, 0,0,PaintBox2.Width-1,PaintBox2.Height-1);
PaintBox2.Canvas.Brush.Style:=bsSolid;
//reset the map mode to normal
SetMapMode(hdc,MM_Text);
//draw text at the "same" position as before but unmapped...
TextOut(hdc,200,PaintBox2.Height-PaintBox2.Canvas.TextHeight('Ap'),'Goodbye, World!',15);
//Draw lines exactly at 70% of the way across and 30% of the way down
//if this works as expected they should overwrite the right and bottom
//borders of the rectangle drawn in the mapped mode
PaintBox2.Canvas.Pen.Color:=RGB(0,255,255);
PaintBox2.Canvas.MoveTo(Round(PaintBox2.Width*0.7),0);
PaintBox2.Canvas.LineTo(Round(PaintBox2.Width*0.7),PaintBox2.Height);
PaintBox2.Canvas.MoveTo(0,Round(PaintBox2.Height*0.3));
PaintBox2.Canvas.LineTo(PaintBox2.Width,Round(PaintBox2.Height*0.3));
end;
Okay, I don't know WHY the following is necessary -- it may be a Delphi quirk, the fact that I'm using a TPaintBox with is a TGraphicControl rather than a Component, or if I'm missing out on some fundamental concept on how this whole mapping mode works, BUT if I add the following code:
ZeroPoint:=TPoint.Zero;
SetViewportOrgEx(hdc,PaintBox1.Left,PaintBox1.Top,#ZeroPoint);
SetWindowOrgEx(hdc,0,0,#ZeroPoint);
Then it all displays as expected. Anyone have any explanations as to why this is necessary?
EDIT: Okay, I've got a PARTIAL explanation. It has to do with the control I was painting on being a TPaintBox, which is a TGraphic control rather than a TWinControl. To wit:
TGraphicControl is the base class for all lightweight controls.
TGraphicControl supports simple lightweight controls that do not need the ability to accept keyboard input or contain other controls. Since lightweight controls do not wrap Windows screen objects, they are faster and user fewer resources than controls based on TWinControl.
As such, although they APPEAR to have a separate canvas, I have this sneaking feeling that they are really sharing the form's canvas which is why, when I switched to a TWinControl descendant, which DOES own its own Windows DC, then the display worked as expected without setting the ViewpointOrg.
So it was a Delphi quirk after all...!

Win32 Toolbar Custom and Default icons on same bar

I realize win32 toolbar icon questions are common here, but none are relevant to my particular problem (most concern image lists, or associating with a bitmap handle).
I am trying to associate a toolbar button with an icon resource within my application. Since I am adding it to a toolbar that already has default images using TB_ADDBITMAP (new, open, save, etc), I cannot use an image list, as the article on MSDN says here:
The TB_SETIMAGELIST message cannot be combined with TB_ADDBITMAP. It also cannot be used with toolbars created with CreateToolbarEx, which calls TB_ADDBITMAP internally. When you create a toolbar with CreateToolbarEx or use TB_ADDBITMAP to add images, the toolbar manages the image list internally. Attempting to modify it with TB_SETIMAGELIST has unpredictable consequences.
MSDN says I should be able to use a resource directly with TB_ADDBITMAP, under the TBADDBITMAP::nID field:
If hInst is NULL, set this member to the bitmap handle of the bitmap with the button images. Otherwise, set it to the resource identifier of the bitmap with the button images.
The VS2008 resource editor shows a single 16x16 icon resource with the id IDI_ARROWLEFT. (I had a screenshot, but since I do not have enough "reputation" to post images you'll have to take my word for it)
This is clearly a valid icon as the following code makes the icon appear on the titlebar of the main window:
wcex.hIconSm = LoadIcon(wcex.hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ARROWLEFT));
The problem is the resource icon is not appearing on the toolbar button within the window. Below is the sample code that is loading the resource and applying it to the toolbar button:
void populateToolbarTest()
{
int index = -1;
TBADDBITMAP tbab;
TBBUTTON tbb;
ZeroMemory(&tbab, sizeof(TBADDBITMAP));
ZeroMemory(&tbb, sizeof(TBBUTTON));
SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_BUTTONSTRUCTSIZE, (WPARAM) sizeof(TBBUTTON), 0);
tbab.hInst = hInst;
tbab.nID = IDI_ARROWLEFT;
// SendMessage returns 0 when testing
index = SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_ADDBITMAP, 1, (LPARAM)&tbab);
if (index == -1) return;
tbb.iBitmap = index;
tbb.fsState = TBSTATE_ENABLED;
tbb.fsStyle = TBSTYLE_BUTTON;
// result is set to 1 when testing
LRESULT result = SendMessage(hWndToolbar, TB_ADDBUTTONS, 1, (LPARAM)&tbb);
}
This code successfully produces a button. However, there is no icon displayed, unlike with the defaults that I used in IDB_STD_SMALL_COLOR
I finally got it working. Turns out, it had nothing to do with the code.
Microsoft is EXTREMELY picky about the EXACT format of the image being referenced. It you use TB_ADDBITMAP with a custom image, it MUST be 256 colors, it MUST have the MS-Specific index format, and the only color I've gotten to register as transparent is black. I spent an hour in Photoshop messing with different formats and colors before figuring this out.
The clue was the CreateMappedBitmap function in the example on MSDN. The page on CreateMappedBitmap had this statement:
This function is fully supported only for images with color maps; that is, images with 256 or fewer colors.
What it doesn't mention is that this is true regardless of whether you use this function or not. I have tried each scenario with and without this helper function, as well as tried every other 256-color BMP index format. Some other formats managed to show up, but they were mangled.
Theoretically, you can use the CreateMappedBitmap COLORMAP to specify a transparency color other than black, but I'm not familiar enough with the "6 level RGB" format to know how to specify an exact color.
(ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_palettes#6_level_RGB)
Unless you're mixing custom icons with default ones, I would recommend sticking with TB_SETIMAGELIST. From what I've read, it's much more flexible (for example, it accepts more than 256 colors.)
(ref: Win32 Toolbars and 24bit Images)

How to see image data using opencv in visual studio?

I wrote an OPENCV project in VS2010 and the results were not the ones as I expected so I ran the debugger to see where is the problem. When I wanted to see the data inside the image loaded I didn't know how to do it so if I want to see the data inside my images what should I do?
It is pretty simple in matlab for seeing different channel of an image i.e.
a=imread('test.jpg');
p1 = a(:,:,1)
p2 = b(:,:,2)
.
.
In opencv I wrote the same thing but I don't know how to see all the element at once just like Matlab.
a= imread("test.jpg")
split(a,planes);
vector<Mat> T1;
T1 = planes[0];
// How can I see the data inside T1 when debugging the code ?
I think this is what you are looking for - it's a great Visual Studio add-on
https://bitbucket.org/sergiu/opencv-visualizers
Just download the installer, make sure VS is closed, run it, re-open VS and voila! Now, when you point to an OpenCV data structure, all kinds of nice info is showed.
Limitations: I saw some problems with multichannel images (it only shows the first channel) and it also has trouble displaying large matrices. If you want to see raw data in a big matrix, you can use the old good VS trick with debug variables: Stop at a breakpoint, go to Watch tab, and write there
((float*)myMat.data) ,10
Where float is the matrix type, myMat is your matrix, and 10 is the number of values you want to print. It will display the first 10 values at the memory location of myMat.data. If you do not correctly choose the data type, you'll see garbage. In my example, myMat is of type cv::Mat.
And never forget the power of visualizers:
imshow("Image", myMat);
If your data fits into an image. You can use the contrib module's colormap to enhance your visualizers.
I can't actually believe that nobody suggested Image Watch yet. It's the most amazing add-in ever. It shows you a view with all your Mat variables (images (gray and color), matrices) while debugging, there's useful stuff like zooming or contrast-stretching and you can even apply more complex functions directly in the plugin in real-time. It makes debugging of any kind of image operations a breeze and it's immensely helpful if you do calculations and linear algebra stuff with your cv::Mat matrices.
I recommend to use a NativeViewer extension. It actually displays the content of an image in a preview window, not only the properly formatted info.
If you don't want to use a plug-in or extension to Visual Studio, you can access the elements one by one in the debugging watch tab by typing this:
T1.data[T1.step.buf[0]*i + T1.step.buf[1]*j];
where i is the row you want to look at and j is the column.
after downloading imagewatch use the command in watch window
(imagesLoc._Myfirst)[0]
index of image in the vector
You can use the immediate window and the extenshion method like this one
/// <summary>
/// Displays image
/// </summary>
public static void Display (this Mat m, Rect rect = default, string windowName = "")
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(windowName))
{
windowName = m.ToString();
}
var img = rect == default ? m : m.Crop(rect);
double coef = Math.Min(1600d / img.Width, 800d / img.Height);
Cv2.ImShow(windowName, img.Resize(new Size(coef * img.Width, (coef * img.Height) > 1 ? coef * img.Height : 1)));
Cv2.WaitKey();
}
Then you stop at a breakpoint and call yourImage.Display() in the immediate window.
If you can use CLion you can utilize the OpenCV Image Viewer plugin, which displays matrices while debugging just on click.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14371-opencv-image-viewer
Disclaimer: I'm an author of this plugin

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