Introduction

ImageEx is the ultimate graphics and imaging toolkit for Clarion. It gives you everything you need to add professional strength image or graphics manipulation to your Clarion application.

“If you are a serious Clarion Developer and want to add real graphics and imaging capabilities to your programs – then this is one product that you can’t afford to miss!”

ImageEx can display images of 19 popular file formats and gives you more high performance graphics functions than any other 3rd party product. ImageEx is so powerful – yet very easy to use! All major classes have an accompanying set of templates that will allow you to use them without even writing a single line of code - the CLARION way of imaging. In fact, ImageEx is the only available graphics & imaging library exclusively written for Clarion!

Features

• extended image control displaying images of 19 popular file formats (with more than 40 different file extensions) including TIFF, PNG and PCD on both windows and reports!
• fast and flicker free zooming and panning using the viewer control (mouse wheel supported)
• panoramic image viewing with user-defined, clickable hotspots
• class wrappers for creating, loading, modifying & saving 32bit images (24bit RGB - plus 8 bit alpha channel)
• image processing functions for adjusting contrast, brightness & intensity, gamma adjustment and color correction
• resizing, rotating, flipping and skewing images
• special effects like mosaic filter, convolution filters and colorizations
• royalty free TWAIN scanning without ANY other 3rd party files
• advanced drawing functions (line, rect, roundrect, ellipse, polygon, pie...) with alpha channel support and antialiasing for smooth results
• direct access to any single pixel in an image
• high-quality text transformations like scaling, rotating and skewing
• screen capture functions for capturing the entire screen, single windows and controls or selectable regions
• read EXIF and IPTC metadata directly from image files
• utility functions like PictureDialog (a file dialog with a preview area for images), others for saving images to and loading from BLOBs (without the need for an image control), get properties from image files, and more!
• standard GDI context handle for interfacing GDI api functions with ImageEx bitmap objects

New in version 3:

• Read and write support for JPEG2000 images
• Save support for TIFF images (single- and multipage)
• Save support for PDF and PostScript files
• more than 100 different transition effects for creating slide shows
• a new color picker control
• lossless jpeg transformations
• completely new TWAIN engine for better scanner compatibility
• lots of minor changes, fixes & improvements (there's a detailed description in the docs)

And just added in version 4:

• Support for Clarion 7
• Save support for ICO images
• Now able to grab shell object images via the IExtractImage shell interface
• Improved SaveToMemory functions
• DibSection copy support for interfacing with other imaging applications

Recommended  additions

As an addition, I'd like to recommend the following two products created by the guys at www.clarionproseries.com, both based on ImageEx:

Customer's voices

"This is exactly what Clarion is missing!" Henrik Kartin, Kartin Data

"Thanks Jens! You are a genius... how did you know I wanted all the cool stuff!" Glenn Rountree, Rountree & Associates, Inc.

"I started using ImageEX 2.2 this weekend and it's really great!! It lets me manipulate images with ease. Really nice!" John C. Anderson, Delphi Delco Electronics Systems

"GREAT software!" Ty Shewmake

"ImageEx and other Solid Software products are critical to my development of interactive multi-media authorware. I literally could not do the development without them. Jens provides a steady stream of product improvements that I can in turn pass on to users as excellent enhancements." David Podger

Package Contents

Let me start by saying what you not get: The box shown above is a virtual one - the software is only available for download via internet. Upon purchase, you'll be provided with all data required to download and install the product. This will give you:

• a state-of-the-art installer which automatically detects installed Clarion versions and (optionally) registers the templates
• runtime libraries (lib and/or dll files) for all supported Clarion versions
• easy-to-use template files for both ABC and Clarion (legacy) template chains
• class and template documentation in compiled HTML format (.chm file)
• comprehensive example applications for both template chains

Plus

• lifetime free email support
• lifetime free minor upgrades (the ones after the dot)

Linkability

The table below lists the supported Clarion versions, template chains, target operating systems and link modes.

ImageEx Version 4.0		DLL version, standalone		LIB version, standalone		LIB version, local runtime
		16bit	32bit	16bit	32bit	16bit	32bit
Clarion 5 Ver. 5.002	Legacy	-		-		-
	ABC	-		-		-
Clarion 5.5 Release H	Legacy	-		-		-
	ABC	-		-		-
Clarion 6 6.0 Build 9015 6.1 Build 9034 6.2 Build 9049 6.3 Build 9054	Legacy	-		-		-
	ABC	-		-		-
Clarion 7 7.0 Build 5349 7.1 Build 6695	Legacy	-		-		-
	ABC	-		-		-
Source included		No, but available for purchase by request.

Pricing and availability

ImageEx4 is available exclusively at ClarionShop for just 299,- US$ (single user license - please contact our sales office for discounted multi-user licenses!)

Upgrades from earlier versions are available for just 49,- US$.