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  <title>High Level Interface</title>
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    <title>High Level Interface</title>
    <par>Imaging's high level interface is set of classes build on top
    of low level interface
    implemented in <ref>ImagingClasses.pas</ref> unit.
    It is <b>Object Pascal</b> only, therefore it is not accessible
    from other programming languages (although creating high level interface
    for other languages using low level interface imported from dll/so should not
    be difficult).</par>

    <par>High level interface
    consists of the base class <ref>TBaseImage</ref> with two descendant classes.
    The first is <ref>TSingleImage</ref> and it is high level wrapper to <ref>TImageData</ref>
    structure. The second is <ref>TMultiImage</ref> and it is wrapper to 
    <ref>TDynImageDataArray</ref> array.</par>
    
    <par>These classes provide access to all members of underlying structures
    trough properties. This access is read/write so you can for example
    convert image to another format by setting <icode>Format</icode> property
    to new value. You can also assign single image to multi image and vice versa.
    Some image manipulation functions are integrated into high level interface.
    However, you can use even those that are not integrated
    with high level images classes. You can find information
    how to do this and more in the following pages.</par>
    
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      <title>Information about usage of the high level interface</title>   
      <lslink url="../Procedures/Procedures.xml">How To ... </lslink>
      <lslink url="../Demos/Pascal.xml">Object Pascal Demos</lslink>
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