[Lazarus] TPicture width questions (duplicate ways)

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

Of course the second part should have been Rect(0, 0, p.Jpeg.Width,
p.Jpeg.Height)? :-P

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Kostas Michalopoulos <
badsectoracula at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can check yourself easily: Ctrl+Click on the p.Width to go to the
> definition of the property, then Ctrl+Click on the GetWidth getter,
> Ctrl+Shift+Down arrow to see the code for the getter and see that it simply
> gets FGraphic's property. So what is FGraphic? Ctrl+Home to move at the top
> of the source code (you'd be in picture.inc) and search for "FGraphic :="
> to see where it is assigned (the source code style in that file seems to
> put a space before := in assignments). You can see that it is used in a
> bunch of places, so you can see where those uses are. ForceType is the
> first one and if you search for that one, you'll find that it is used
> wherever a type-specific property (p.Jpeg, p.Bitmap, etc) is used -
> presumably to convert the underlying graphic to the requested type. So the
> FGraphic object is actually an instance of the TBitmap,
> TPortableNetworkGraphic, TJpegImage, etc (depending what you loaded and/or
> accessed last).
>
> So what p.Width gives you is the FGraphic's width or 0 if there is no
> FGraphic loaded (because a picture may have nothing loaded until you either
> load it directly or try to access any of the Bitmap, Jpeg, PNG, etc
> properties). So if you already have a picture loaded from a PNG file,
> p.Width, p.Graphic.Width and p.PNG.Width will give you the same number. If
> your picture doesn't have a graphic (e.g. it is a newly constructed object)
> then p.Width gives you 0, p.Graphic.Width will crash your program (FGraphic
> is nil) and p.PNG.Width will give you zero (because accessing the PNG
> property will call the ForceType function which will create a
> TPortableNetworkGraphic object that by default is undefined and gives you
> zero width).
>
> Question for the readers: what happens to the image if you load a PNG file
> with alpha values using TPicture's LoadFromFile, access the
> TPicture.Jpeg.Width property and then save the picture as a PNG file using
> TPicture's SaveToFile? Is the alpha component preserved? Do you get jpeg
> artifacts? Why?
>
> Bonus question: why is R := Rect(0, 0, p.Jpeg.Width, p.PNG.Height) worse
> than R := Rect(0, 0, p.Jpeg.Width, p.PNG.Height)? Why is R := Rect(0, 0,
> p.Width, p.Height) better than either of them?
>
> You can find the answers to those (and many more) using Ctrl+Click,
> Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down Arrow, Search and back and forward buttons (helps to
> have a mouse with those). Considering how big and complex LCL is, it helps
> to be able to navigate and familiarize yourself with its source code :-).
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Lars via Lazarus <
> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-03-09 10:48, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK:
>>>
>>> TPicture.Width is the TGraphic container size.
>>> TPicture.jpeg.Width is the width declared in the jpeg image.
>>> TPicture.Bitmap.Width is the width of the bitmap in pixels.
>>>
>>> Mostly the 3 will have the same value but extracted from different
>>> sources.
>>>
>>>
>> If I start off using a bitmap, and all of a sudden start using jpeg, will
>> it automagically work or does one have to initiate the jpeg in some way?
>>
>> Example: you start off working with a classic BMP, but then 60 lines of
>> code later you want to work with it as a jpeg. Do you just magically start
>> working with a jpeg without any worry, or you have to take some precautions?
>>
>> Likely, this is explained in a article on the wiki somewhere, I don't
>> know :-)
>>
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