SVGMagic adds support for SVG and animated SVG graphics files to Embarcadero® RAD Studio Delphi® and C++ builder® Visual Component Library (VCL).
Once installed, any SVG image can be displayed using the native IDE components just as with the bitmap-based formats (.bmp, png,
.jpg,…). All components using TGraphic support SVGs, among which: TImage, TPicture, TCanvas.
Always get the best image quality whatever the dimensions / resolution. You don’t need to edit the image if it needs to be resized.
When an SVG is used to display an image, its quality does not change, even when the image is stretched. This feature offers a certain advantage when the application has to support the high dpi, because the resizing of the images naturally accompanies the interface.
SVGs fully support transparency. No more anti-aliasing issues experienced with bitmap based images.
The SVG standard natively supports complex animations and SVGMagic fully supports them.
SVGs are incredibly smaller than bitmap based images, even when compressed. Furthermore SVGs also support compression.
SVGs are widely used for internet graphics, and several well known and powerful creation tools are available, like Inkscape or Adobe® Illustrator. In addition, you don’t need to create all SVGs yourself as there are plenty of vector image libraries available online.
SVGs can easily be expanded to other components such as buttons, checkboxes, radiobuttons, popupmenus and many more.
SVGMagic is used on a daily base in commercial software like CopyTrans.
The SVG standard allows to obtain spectacular effects including animations, then to change them completely without modifying one line of code.
You can start by downloading the provided demos.
There are two ways to use the SVG graphic component. You can either use it natively, through the VCL TImage component. In this case, simply put a TImage on your form, then open the Picture property to load a file, and select the SVG file to open as any other image.
Or you can use it in your code exactly the same way as any TGraphic descendents, like a TPngImage or a TJpgImage. For example, here is a sample code that illustrates how to paint a SVG onto a canvas:
pSVG := TWSVGGraphic.Create;
pSVG.LoadFromFile('MyFile.svg');
pSVG.Width := ClientWidth;
pSVG.Height := ClientHeight;
Canvas.Draw(0, 0, pSVG);TWSVGGraphic* pSVG = new TWSVGGraphic();
pSVG->LoadFromFile(L"MyFile.svg");
pSVG->Width = ClientWidth;
pSVG->Height = ClientHeight;
Canvas->Draw(0, 0, pSVG);pSVG := pPicture.Graphic as TWSVGGraphic;
pSVG.AnimationPosition := 0.5; // in percent, between 0.0 and 1.0pSVG = dynamic_cast<TWSVGGraphic*>(pPicture.Graphic);
pSVG->AnimationPosition = 0.5; // in percent, between 0.0 and 1.0pImage.Animation.Position := 50; // in percent, between 0 and 100pImage->Animation->Position = 50; // in percent, between 0 and 100SVGMagic Precompiled demo SVGMagic Demo source code SVGMagic Delphi/C++ Builder package
Make sure to read installation instructions.
To fully experience the component capabilities, test it now. Follow the steps to install the SVGMagic library
Open your Embarcadero RAD Studio IDE, then from menu “Component” -> “Install Packages”, click “Add…” button, and browse to c:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\[Product Version]\Bpl\WSVGD.bpl file, then confirm twice with “OK”.
[Product Version] for your IDE version is:
“9.0” = XE2
“15.0” = XE7
“16.0” = XE8
“17.0” = 10.0 Seattle
“18.0” = 10.1 Berlin
“19.0” = 10.2 Tokyo
“20.0” = 10.3 Rio
Common issues:
SVGMagic works on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP and is available for RAD Studio XE2, XE3, XE4, XE5, XE6, XE7, XE8, 10 Seattle, 10.1 Berlin, 10.2 Tokyo, 10.3 Rio.
All licenses come with 2 years of free updates and support.
For other licensing options, please email us at hello@svgmagic.io.
If you have any question, suggestion or you need help, please don’t hesitate to email us at hello@svgmagic.io.
SVGMagic supports a wide array of SVG attributes, however the SVG standard contains a very large amount of properties, and it is possible that one is not supported yet. Please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to add the missing feature to the library.
SVG Magic - v1.005 (Released on 09/21/2019) -> improved: unified all the animation properties to share the same engine -> fixed: an issue in checkbox and radio button styles could cause the target content to be drawn incorrectly on high dpi -> fixed: the animation could run too quickly in TWSVGGraphic because the interpolation was applied twice -> fixed: in XE2, the component icons didn't appear on the designer -> fixed: in XE2, a stream corruption could break several images, which appeared with a fuchsia halo around them SVG Magic - v1.004 (Released on 06/29/2019) -> improved: high dpi support -> fixed: issue with graphical cache, which prevented several brushes to be cached correctly -> fixed: several SVG images could be lost in design time the first time the project was reopened (since XE8) SVG Magic - v1.003 (Released on 03/25/2019) -> fixed: library raised an exception while opening SVG files if decimal separator was not configured to "." in computer locale -> fixed: high DPI issues with component styles -> fixed: trial library could not be tested in 64 bit due to a memory error -> fixed: c++ demo project could not be compiled under 64 bit -> fixed: several configuration issues in 10.2.3 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio demo projects -> added: RAD Studio XE2, XE8, 10.0 Seattle and 10.1 Berlin support SVG Magic - v1.002 (Released on 02/27/2019) -> fixed: incorrect BkColor default value in TWSVGImageList -> fixed: users no longer have to link the Uniscribe library (usp10.dll) explicitly -> added: new property (DPIScale) to allow image list content to be auto-scaled on DPI changes -> added: drag&drop support in TWSVGImageList design time editor -> changed: now TWSCGImageList design time editor is shown as a grid instead of a list SVG Magic - v1.001 (Released on 02/13/2019) -> added: library version number property is now exposed in components -> fixed: now TWSVGImageList no longer clears its content when the size is changed -> fixed: Delphi demos for 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio contained several graphical glitches and path to DCU was missing for 64 bit compilation SVG Magic - v1.000 (Released on 02/06/2019) -> First release
SVGMagic was designed for our own project needs. With around 50’000 line of Delphi code, and after more than 2 years of intensive work, SVGMagic significantly shortens our development time and allows our applications to provide a cleaner user experience. It’s the reason why applications like the CopyTrans are using it.
According to Wikipedia:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999.
SVG is a graphic standard based on vectorial rendering, that allows to draw images without loss of quality, regardless of the size and resolution, and with considerably smaller image file size. The format is widely used for graphics on the internet and all recent browsers support it. In addition SVGs natively support animations.