From: "Earl F. Glynn"
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Subject: Re: FIF source
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:04:32 -0500
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"Earl F. Glynn" wrote in message news:3ad468ca_2@dnews...

> There is part of a chapter about FIF in Danny Thorpe's "Delphi Component Design" book, which is
out
> of print.  I'll check tonight to see what that book has about FIF (my copy of the book is at
home).
> I haven't looked at the disk that came with the book yet.  It's possible the source for FIF is
> proprietary and Iterated Systems never made it public.


Here's what's on the CD related to FIF -- there's no source code for FIF itself.

File List:
=========
     DECO_32.DLL       - Fractal Decompression run-time library.
     DECO_32.H         - Fractal Decompression header file.
     ISIERROR.H        - header file containing ISI error codes.
     DECO_32B.LIB      - Fractal Decompression library for linking
                         with Borland C++ 4.5.
     DECO_32M.LIB      - Fractal Decompression library for linking with
                         Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0.
     DECO_32W.LIB      - Fractal Decompression library for linking with
                         Watcom C++ 10.5.
     FIFVIEW.EXE       - Sample application program
     FIFVIEW\*.*       - Source for FIFVIEW.EXE
     FIFDEC32.HLP      - Fractal Decoder help file.
     README.TXT        - This file.
     LICENSE.TXT       - The license agreement.
     DEISL?.ISU        - Uninstall log file (required for
                         deinstallation).
     UNINSTFI.ICO      - Uninstall icon file.


Danny's book explains the details of classes TFIFData and TFIFImage.
(See pp. 218-223.)


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