I have to display about 30 photos as thumbnails, to allow the user to select a few at random, (using Click, Shift-click, or Ctrl-click) to be sent to an external app for closer examination of the full image.
In Delphi, I hand coded a TImage inside a TPanel (used to make an orange box outline to indicate "selected"), and that was inside another TPanel (which completed the "image box") then I generated one of each of these assemblies for each photo, then programmatically laid them out inside a TScrollBox kind of like the image gallery on an Android phone.
This was a ton of work, and although it did what I wanted, I would not call it "elegant".
My question is:
Is there a simple way to display discrete image files from disk, as a gallery of thumbnails, that is already built? Maybe something that involves a FlowPanel? Or are there other ideas you have or methods or components you've used that are just simpler for this, what I suspect is, a very common task?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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