Class TImageLoader

Unit

Irrlicht

Declaration

type TImageLoader = class(TReferenceCounted)

Description

Class which is able to create a image from a file.
If you want the Irrlicht Engine be able to load textures of currently unsupported file formats (e.g .gif), then implement this and add your new Surface loader with TVideoDriver.AddExternalImageLoader to the engine.

Hierarchy

• TInterfacedObject
• TWrapper
• TReferenceCounted
• TImageLoader

Overview

Methods

	function IsALoadableFileExtension(const FileName: StringType): Boolean; inline;
	function IsALoadableFileFormat(RFile: TReadFile): Boolean; inline;
	function LoadImage(RFile: TReadFile): TImage; inline;

Description

Methods

	function IsALoadableFileExtension(const FileName: StringType): Boolean; inline;
Check if the file might be loaded by this class. Check is based on the file extension (e.g. ".tga") Parameters FileName Name of file to check. Returns True if file seems to be loadable.

	function IsALoadableFileFormat(RFile: TReadFile): Boolean; inline;
Check if the file might be loaded by this class. Check might look into the file. Parameters RFile File handle to check. Returns True if file seems to be loadable.

	function LoadImage(RFile: TReadFile): TImage; inline;
Creates a surface from the file. Parameters RFile File handle to check. Returns The newly created image, or nil upon error.