UniImageList reload property request

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Hi Farshad,

It's possible the adding of a "Reload" button in the ImageList Editor of the TUniImageList component?. It implies the storage of the file name and path for each image, but it should help a lot when changing, replacing, adjusting or retouching images without affecting their indexes.

And referencing to images by an alias to make images independent of their order inside the image list?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Farshad,

It's possible the adding of a "Reload" button in the ImageList Editor of the TUniImageList component?. It implies the storage of the file name and path for each image, but it should help a lot when changing, replacing, adjusting or retouching images without affecting their indexes.

And referencing to images by an alias to make images independent of their order inside the image list?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Farshad,

Do you find these kind of options useful and easy to include in future versions?. It's just sheer convenience for graphic design.

Regards,

[Farshad Mohajeri]

What will a "Reload" button actually do?

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What will a "Reload" button actually do?

Reload: Simply load all images from their sources (now, you have to go image by image clicking on "Replace..." button and selecting its source file)...

[Farshad Mohajeri]

Reload: Simply load all images from their sources (now, you have to go image by image clicking on "Replace..." button and selecting its source file)...

 

UniImageList doesn't save info regarding the source! Again even if it does, how reloading same file is same as replacing it with a new file?

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UniImageList doesn't save info regarding the source! Again even if it does, how reloading same file is same as replacing it with a new file?

Because the file name is the same, but its content has been modified. It is like a .pas file: you have one with a conrecte and normally fixed name in your project, but you change its content when you need.

 

Two examples of real nuisance we had:

 

 

Real example 1:

 

once a lot of forms were developed with one concrete theme and icons set, i.e. Picol icon set, we need to change it all to another theme and another icon set, i.e. Fugue icons set, visually very different.

 

Instead of using original icons name, we use our own name convention, so changing icons is as simple as mapping file names. Our icons file names are exaclty the same, but their contents have been changed with the substitution.

 

 

Real example 2:

 

once a lot of forms were developed with a theme and one icon set as provided to speed up develpment, many original icons doesn't meet exactly what you want, i.e. size of some details, their color or their edge contrast, so you have to retouch those icons and reload them in a kind of "refine" stage.

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Because the file name is the same, but its content has been modified. It is like a .pas file: you have one with a conrecte and normally fixed name in your project, but you change its content when you need.

 

Two examples of real nuisance we had:

 

 

Real example 1:

 

once a lot of forms were developed with one concrete theme and icons set, i.e. Picol icon set, we need to change it all to another theme and another icon set, i.e. Fugue icons set, visually very different.

 

Instead of using original icons name, we use our own name convention, so changing icons is as simple as mapping file names. Our icons file names are exaclty the same, but their contents have been changed with the substitution.

 

 

Real example 2:

 

once a lot of forms were developed with a theme and one icon set as provided to speed up develpment, many original icons doesn't meet exactly what you want, i.e. size of some details, their color or their edge contrast, so you have to retouch those icons and reload them in a kind of "refine" stage.

Hello, In Web-mode TUniImageList can Assign images from TImageList

example UniImageList1.Assign(ImageList1)

but TUnitoolButton could not affect this changes in run-time, but you can assign images to uniimagelist before create form

see example

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Hello, In Web-mode TUniImageList can Assign images from TImageList

example UniImageList1.Assign(ImageList1)

but TUnitoolButton could not affect this changes in run-time, but you can assign images to uniimagelist before create form

see example

Thanks but TImageList has the same issue that TUniImageList has. This extra functionality we request, if UniUI team find it useful, is to provide some help in situations described above.