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Component X Graphics is an free plugin for the REALbasic Development Environment which provides high quality, fast, cross-platform consistent graphics functions. If you write software with REALbasic, you can take advantage of these functions in your own applications with Component X Graphics. If you are not a REALbasic developer, you can enjoy Component X Graphics by using applications such as Bosco’s Foto Trimmer, Bosco’s Foto Ensemble, Bosco’s Screen Share, and RealeWriter.

The picture above was created by calls to Component X Graphics functions CXG_Stretch, CXG_FreeRotateBySheer, CXG_AdjustHSV, and CXG_Threshold. Component X Graphics makes it easy and fast to incorporate high-end graphics functionality into your REALbasic applications.

REALbasic Developers
Component X Graphics provides powerful, cross-platform, pixel-consistent, scalable graphics routines that extend REALbasic's picture class. It contains routines to stretch, flip, rotate, shear, and trim pictures, routines to adjust contrast, gamma, HSV, and RGB of pictures, routines for compositing, threshold, transitions, and pixelating images, and even a routine to blit high quality crawling ants on images. Some day, we'll add a routine to eliminate run-on sentences.

Component X Graphics is offered under a free developer license. We also offer development and support services for the Component X Graphics plugin and build applications that use Component X Graphics. Check out RealeWriter for a sample of our work.

How fast is Component X Graphics?
Check out this recent message to REALbasic-NUG comparing various methods of compositing images. The comparatively slow Win32 times for plugin methods is explained in a follow-up message in the thread, and is no longer an issue in REALbasic 2005. Summary: Component X Graphics smokes the competition!

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  • Component X Graphics 2005r2 (4 MB)
    Requires REALbasic 2005 r1 or later.
    For Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, Windows, and (new for 2005r2) Linux.