I have just hunted down and reported (to Borland via their web pages) a
bug with Delphi 5 where it cannot load RLE encoded bitmaps. The offending
code is on line 5724 of Graphics.pas where it reads:
RLEStream.Seek(ImageSize, soFromEnd);
Unfortunately ImageSize is a positive value and this has the effect of
moving the stream position way past the end of the file, which was not the
intended result of this repositioning. I have made a temporary patch as
follows:
RLEStream.Seek(-LongInt(ImageSize), soFromEnd);
and this corrects the problem.
Hopefully this will make it into a patch for D5 in the future, but perhaps
a little more cleanly than my small but ugly fix.
Cheers, Max.
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