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Tuesday, 21 May 2024

HOW TO SAVE AN IMAGE AS AN HTML WEB PAGE WITH OPTIONAL HYPERLINK

ImageEn is one of the best and most popular image libraries for Embarcadero Delphi.

Here is a single function to save an image from TImageEnView as an HTML web page with an optional hyperlink and automatically open it ready to use in your default web browser:

The function first asks for the filename of the HTML Web Page. Then, it prompts the user for an optional Hyperlink URL. Then, it automatically opens the saved HTML Web Page in the user's default web browser. If a HyperLink URL was provided, clicking the image automatically navigates to the provided URL.

Here is a Delphi demo project that contains the demo source and a compiled (signed) executable:

SaveImageAsHTML_Demo.zip

uses

  Vcl.Imaging.jpeg, Vcl.Imaging.pngimage, Vcl.Graphics, System.Classes, System.SysUtils,

  IdCoderMIME, ImageEnView, Vcl.Dialogs, ShellAPI, Vcl.Forms;


procedure SaveImageAsHTML(ImageEnView: TImageEnView);

var

  MemoryStream: TMemoryStream;

  Base64Stream: TStringStream;

  Base64Encoder: TIdEncoderMIME;

  HTMLFile: TStringList;

  Base64Image: string;

  SaveDialog: TSaveDialog;

  JPEGImage: TJPEGImage;

  HTMLFileName: string;

  ImageLink: string;

  LinkProvided: Boolean;

begin

  SaveDialog := TSaveDialog.Create(nil);

  SaveDialog.DefaultExt := 'html';

  SaveDialog.Filter := 'HTML files (*.html)|*.html';

  SaveDialog.Options := [ofOverwritePrompt, ofPathMustExist];


  try

    if not SaveDialog.Execute then

      Exit; // User cancelled the save dialog


    // Prompt the user to OPTIONALLY enter an image hyperlink:

    LinkProvided := InputQuery('OPTIONALLY enter an image hyperlink URL', 'URL:', ImageLink);

    // if the user enters no URL (or hits the ESC key) then the image web page is saved normally with no hyperlink


    HTMLFileName := SaveDialog.FileName;


    MemoryStream := TMemoryStream.Create;

    Base64Stream := TStringStream.Create;

    Base64Encoder := TIdEncoderMIME.Create(nil);

    HTMLFile := TStringList.Create;

    JPEGImage := TJPEGImage.Create;


    try

      // Convert the TImageEnView image to JPEG with 100% quality

      JPEGImage.Assign(ImageEnView.Bitmap);

      JPEGImage.CompressionQuality := 100;

      JPEGImage.SaveToStream(MemoryStream);

      MemoryStream.Position := 0;


      // Encode the image to Base64

      Base64Encoder.Encode(MemoryStream, Base64Stream);

      Base64Image := Base64Stream.DataString;


      // Create the HTML content

      HTMLFile.Add('<html>');

      HTMLFile.Add('<head>');

      HTMLFile.Add('<style>');

      HTMLFile.Add('  body { display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; height: 100vh; margin: 0; }');

      HTMLFile.Add('  .container { text-align: center; }');

      HTMLFile.Add('</style>');

      HTMLFile.Add('</head>');

      HTMLFile.Add('<body>');

      HTMLFile.Add('<div class="container">');


      if LinkProvided and (ImageLink <> '') then

        HTMLFile.Add('<a href="' + ImageLink + '">');


      HTMLFile.Add('<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,' + Base64Image + '">');


      if LinkProvided and (ImageLink <> '') then

        HTMLFile.Add('</a>');


      HTMLFile.Add('</div>');

      HTMLFile.Add('</body>');

      HTMLFile.Add('</html>');


      // Save the HTML content to a file

      HTMLFile.SaveToFile(HTMLFileName);


      // Open the saved HTML file in the default browser

      ShellExecute(0, 'open', PChar(HTMLFileName), nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

    finally

      MemoryStream.Free;

      Base64Stream.Free;

      Base64Encoder.Free;

      HTMLFile.Free;

      JPEGImage.Free;

    end;

  finally

    SaveDialog.Free;

  end;

end;



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