
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!
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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Linkability
The table below lists the supported Clarion versions, template chains, target operating
systems and link modes.
ImageEx
Version 4.1
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DLL version,
standalone
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LIB version,
standalone
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LIB version,
local runtime
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16bit
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32bit
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16bit
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32bit
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16bit
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32bit
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Clarion 5
Ver. 5.002
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Legacy
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ABC
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Clarion 5.5
Release H
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Legacy
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ABC
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Clarion 6
6.0 Build 9015
6.1 Build 9034
6.2 Build 9049
6.3 Build 9054
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Legacy
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ABC
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Clarion 7
7.0 Build 5349
7.1 Build 6695
7.2 Build 7232
7.3 Build 7900
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Clarion 8
8.0 Build 8421
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Legacy
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ABC
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Source included
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No, but available for purchase by request.
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Pricing
and availability
ImageEx4.1 is available exclusively at ClarionShop for just 299,- US$ (single user
license - please contact our sales office for discounted multi-user licenses!)
Upgrades
to 4.1 (which includes support for Clarion 8) from earlier versions are available for just 49,- US$.

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