Introduction

The Imaging Common Dialog libraries provide a set of common dialog boxes that combine Windows Common Dialog functionality with imaging functionality contained in LEADTOOLS. Imaging Common Dialogs are provided for numerous image processing, effects and filtering functions.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ Reusable dialogs for the most common LEADTOOLS imaging functions and effects are now provided.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ A Thumbnail Preview option for the image processing dialogs allows the end user to preview the proposed change to the image, before actually affecting the original image.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ An optional Help callback function lets you provide custom help information for each dialog.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ A user interface control for the dialogs is provided through flags in the structure passed to each dialog function.

$image\sqrblit.gif$ An option to have the Imaging Common Dialog process the image automatically is provided.

LEADTOOLS Common Dialog COM supports UNICODE. For more information on using the samples in this help file with UNICODE, please refer to A Special Note About UNICODE Support.

Executable demos are included in all LEADTOOLS products. The executable demos provide a quick and easy way to evaluate the LEADTOOLS Common Dialog features and performance.

The LEADTOOLS Common Dialog features come in a WIN32 edition so that it can support development of software applications for any of the following environments:

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000

Visual C++ 5.0 and later (32-bit)
Visual Basic 4.0 and later (32-bit)