clayton arends

There already exist excellent classes that handle these types for you within
the VCL framework (ie. all are TGraphic descendants).

Already part of the VCL:
BMP -> Graphics::TBitmap
JPG -> TJPEGImage (BCB5 and higher) Downloadable:
GIF -> TGIFImage (by Anders Melander, code currently part of JEDI http://homepages.borland.com/jedi/jcl/)
PNG -> TPNGImage (http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net/)


If you would still like to create the classes on your own then you can look
at this code to see how "they" did it.

- Clayton