MediaThumb version 1.0 beta
Copyright  1999 Bernard Deveza.

Email : bdeveza@aol.com
URL   : http://members.aol.com/bdeveza/
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MediaThumb is a media browser an a graphics viewer, file manager for images, sounds, video.
It make thumbnails of your image files and has many features
to make easy your life:
image file search, file conversion, image manipulation,
keywords, categories, printing utility, drag & drop between
applications, catalog of your cdrom images etc.
MediaThumb supports many image formats available on Windows.

MediaThumb is freeware at this time but it will
become shareware within two months.

You can get the last version at :
http://members.aol.com/bdeveza/

please free to send me an email for bugs report, suggestions, 
what you (or do not) like in this program etc.

Help needed :
I need help for translation (Help and strings, captions...) 
in spanish, italian, german, English etc.


credits for :

I have used several useful components in this application

- Toolbar97 by Jordan Russell  http://www.connect.net/jordanr/ 
- TreeNT 2.0 a treeview component by Dipl. Ing. Mike Lischke (Lischke@hotmail.com)
- Drag and Drop Components by Angus Johnson, Anders Melander & Graham Wideman http://www.melander.dk.
- RX Library 2.6 by Fedor Koshevnikov (fkozh@usa.net), Igor Pavluk (ipavluk@usa.net), Serge Korolev (korolev@usa.net) http://rx.demo.ru 
- TAdvSplitter component 1.1 by Charles Bedard (bedardc@mlink.net)
- TDFSStatusBar v1.10,
- TDFSColorButton  by Brad Stowers http://www.pobox.com/~bstowers/delphi/  
- TWidget button bar component by Robert R. Marsh http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/rrm

Program installation : Inno Setup version 1.11 by Copyright  1998-1999 Jordan Russell

Tips Thumbnails:
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In options, preferences, you can select the format of thumbnails.
there are three available types:
						
						
 1) bmp reduced to 256 colors (the default) 
    - Need more time to create thumbnails but high speed when drawing on screen
      this type is the best if you have a Pentium 200 or lower
   
 2) Bmp advantage the thumbnails creation is 
    - High speed in creating thumbnail but important size thumbnail

 3) jpg
    - try this type if you have a Pentium 300 or higher.
      The size of thumbnails are low but drawing process is also low.

Statistics size

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                          BmpTrueColor   256Colors    Jpg
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  1 thumbnail 200x200 =   57.8 Ko        30 Ko         16.7 Ko
  1 thumbnail 160x160 =   37.4 Ko        19.8 Ko       11.5 Ko
  1 thumbnail 120x120 =   21.2 Ko        11.8 Ko       7.5 Ko
  1 thumbnail 100x100 =   14.5 Ko        8.25 Ko       5.3 Ko
  1 thumbnail 84x84   =   10 Ko          6.3 Ko        4,3 Ko
  1 thumbnail 64x64   =   6.9 Ko         4.5 Ko        3.05 Ko

To uninstall MediaThumb:
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The program produce files with
extension : *.ltb;*.lts, to store the thumbnails. 
Delete these files which are stored into directories that contains images.
