Very encouraging and helpful, thank you...
And yes, I am still on "the original" (old!) Delphi 4!
(And do understand that I need to be careful about which version of
ICS I use)
Tom
On 8 Aug 2013 at 21:09, François Piette wrote:
> > Do you think this can be done with ICS and Delphi 4?
>
> Delphi 4 or XE4 ?
> Of course no problem with XE4.
> If you still have an ICS version working with D4, then you can do it.
>
> Downloading an image is not different than downloading any file or any HTML
> page. One you get the JPG (or GIG or PNG or whataver) into a file, you can
> then load it into your favorite TImage. You may also use ICS to put the file
> to a TMemoryStream and load the image component from the stream. This way
> there will be no disk activity.
>
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> -Message d'origine-
> De : TWSocket [mailto:twsocket-boun...@lists.elists.org] De la part de TK
> Boyd
> Envoyé : jeudi 8 août 2013 14:24
> À : twsocket@lists.elists.org
> Objet : [twsocket] Fetch image across LAN, WAN?
>
> I have an IP Cam which will service a request from Firefox, as below,
>
> and return to Firefox an image...
>
> http://192.168.0.252:92/SnapshotJPEG?Resolution=320x240&Quality=Clarit
> y
>
> I want, using Delphi 4, to create a simple little app which would have an
> edit box, a "Do It" button and a TImage object.
>
> Don't let the long, complex URL be an issue... I think that the app I want
> could be tested just by putting a little jpg on my web server, and pointing
> the app at that. If the app could be smart enough to know whether it was
> looking at a .bmp or a .jpg, and deal with either, so much the better. But
> to start with, it can just assume that the data is a jpg file.
>
> I would put the "http://192... snapshot..." line in the edit box, click the
> "Do It" button, and hope to see the image from the camera in the TImage
> object.
>
> Do you think this can be done with ICS and Delphi 4?
>
> Any hints?
>
> (I once wrote an app with ICS to read the source of a webpage, i.e.
> the HTML "behind" what Firefox displays if a URL is visited... The biggest
> puzzle I have just now is...
>
> If I "sort of do that again"... how do I intercept the part of what the web
> server returns that is the image? How do I "decode" what the server sends
> into something I can "send" to the TImage object?
>
> I don't expect anyone out there to be able to do all this for me...
> but maybe someone knows of an existing tutorial on the subject...
> remembering my Delphi 4 constraint, please. Or maybe someone knows it
>
> Just Can't Be Done?
>
> As I said... hints welcomed, and I hope I can take it from there...
>
> Tom
>
> Delphi and Lazarus Tutorials, incl ICS material...
> http://sheepdogguides.com/tut.htm
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