From: "Rafe Aldridge" <rafe@rcai.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Bug in D5 loading RLE Bitmaps
Date: 21 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT
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There's a bug in D5 which means that you'll get a "Stream Read Error" if you
try and load a RLE bitmap into a TImage for example. This is down to a bug
in graphics.pas where the line:

RLEStream.Seek( ImageSize, soFromEnd);

in TBitmap.ReadDIB should say:

RLEStream.Seek(-ImageSize, soFromEnd);

(Thanks to various others for documenting this fix)

This is easy enough to change and putting the modified graphics.pas into my
lib folder meant that I quickly ended up with an all new and improved
graphics.dcu file.

However, I'm not sure what I have to recompile in order for the loading of
bitmaps at design time to work. Anyone got any ideas? Or am I the only
person finding these bugs in D5? <G> (see other post regarding Toolbar
problem)

Rafe