[SOLVED] Different pictures with different values

[madref]

This is what i want to do:
If a choose to be a color to be orange i want all the pictures i use to be of the orange kind
If a choose to be a color to be red i want all the pictures i use to be of the red kind
If a choose to be a color to be green i want all the pictures i use to be of the green kind

But i don't know how to do this.
I thing i need a TImageList for it.
Can any give me a example of how to do this?

[Mike.Cornflake]

Are you presenting your user ONLY three choices?  (Orange, Red, Green)?

Where will the Pictures be used (Toolbar?  TPicture?)

Where are the pictures stored? (Resources, different Files, one file as per TImageList.SaveToFile, database)

[madref]

Are you presenting your user ONLY three choices?  (Orange, Red, Green)?

Yes that is what i am thinking of. But maybe 2 more.

Where will the Pictures be used (Toolbar?  TPicture?)

TPicture.

Where are the pictures stored? (Resources, different Files, one file as per TImageList.SaveToFile, database)

Haven't thought about that on. But what is your advise in this?

[Mike.Cornflake]

This is all too vague for me to respond to.  The number of ways this can be implemented is large,and I have no desire to enumerate all options.

[madref]

lets say i store my images in the resources is that helpful.

[madref]

I just need somewhere to start...

[Mike.Cornflake]

Ok.   Heres an idea.   Lets say you have 3 base pictures.   "picture1.jpg" "picture2.jpg" and "picture3.jpg"

Create your different colourised versions of those (I don't even know what this means).   When you save them, add the colour to the start of the filename.  "redpicture1.jpg" and so on.

Add your colour options to a radio group.   In the radiogroup. Onchange at a string with the name of the colour.

Then finally  Picture1. Loadfromfile( ColourStringSetByRadioGroup + 'picture1.jpg');

[madref]

Thanks.


This works for just a few pictures but what if you have say like 20 different pictures?

[Mike.Cornflake]

That would have been useful to know earlier on. Please fully specify what you're looking for. As I say, possibilities are endless with what you've provided so far.

[wp]

What do you mean by "pictures"? I have the feeling that you have monochrome icons and want to colorize them (i.e. replace the black color by some user-defined color). Please confirm.

[madref]

Nope  i am not using icons but real PNG-files.
These have transparent backgrounds but the color is different

[balazsszekely]

The big question is how those images are displayed? As part of a Toolbar, Button or something else? Do you want to load them directly from memory or it's ok to save them to HDD first. How big those images are? Without the details is hard to give a useful advice.

[wp]

I still don't understand what you want to do. Maybe my word "icons" was misleading... OMG! Please post one of these images before and after the modification that you want to apply. Use some image processing program to get the final image.

[balazsszekely]

@wp
If I understood correctly, the OP has all the images ready(each image in 3 different color/nuance). He does not want to modify the image itself in the program, just a method to store/load/ them at runtime according to the clients need.

[madref]

@GetMen: Thanks. Thats what i want.