Component: 	TGifImage
Description:	Image control with added property
Author:		Richard Shotbolt
Email:		100327,2305@compuserve.com
Date:		10 Apr 1996

TGifImage is an image control with one extra property allowing it to
display GIF images at design and run time.

This control owes much to previous authors and continuing the
tradition it is completely free. Use it and modify it as you wish, but
please upload any worthwhile additions to this forum. Anyone care to get
the RegisterFileFormat working? (I'm through with it now!)


			***** LEGAL NOTICE ******

Following rulings by US courts, UniSys Inc. (the inventors of the LZW file
format used by GIF) and possibly Compuserve, who are the registered users
of the format, require that you obtain a license before using this
component in any product to be sold for profit. This includes shareware,
but freeware is exempt from this requirement. Following this ruling, a new
public-domain graphic file format (.PNG) has been devised and it is to be
hoped that freeware/shareware components for Delphi will follow. 


<< Using TGifImage >>

TGifImage has all the properties, methods and events of a normal
TImage, with the following addition:

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<< New Property >>


GifFileName - string, read/write.

When written at design or run time, the image control converts the
GIF file to an in-memory bitmap and displays it e.g.

MyGifImage.GifFileName := garden.gif;

When read it returns the file name in uppercase.

The file must exist and have the extension .gif or the component will
raise an exception (at design/run time) or clear the image (.EXE time).

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<< Installation >>

Backup your 'cmplib32.dcl' file as a precaution.
Select 'Component', 'Install'.
Select 'Add', 'Browse'.
Select the directory containing the GifCode files.
Select 'GifCode' and click OK on each box that appears.
The TGifImage control will be added to the 'Samples' section of your
component toolbar.
If anything goes wrong, restore your backed-up cmplib32.dcl and try
again after correcting any obvious problems.
