Reading images from a file

Posted by Yair Eshel on March 12, 2007

I'm using delphi 2007, and quite a newbie, to delphi and RAD development (I have a firm background in "normal" programming).
I now have a form, using a TImage objects, that I want changed. Looking at the form code, I found out the worse I could have imagined: It's not reading the jpg from a file, but converted it to, what I suspect, a A bmp, and translated it into hex. Now the project I'm working on need to create a series of more then 100 images, that I need to find a way to create dynamically, as it is developed for wide usage. I don't have a problem with the imaged "hard coded" as long as there's a way to create the source without actually linking an image one by one.
The way I see it there are two solutions, that I hope you'll be able to direct me to:
1. Some delphi lib will allow me to link a jpg, or if possible a gif image to a form object.
2. Some application, preferably command line application that can run on linux, that will allow me to create a text file with the image data. moving it into the delphi code will not be a hard task for me.

Thanks in advance
Yair Eshel