Your ImageGear Professional toolkit contains a comprehensive set of sample application programs, which are installed together with ImageGear DLLs and related files. Each sample is provided in both executable and source form. You can execute each application to see the actual effects of the ImageGear function calls within it, or examine the source file to find examples of ImageGear API function calls and accompanying platform-specific calls. In addition, Accusoft permits you to use the sample applications' source code. You can use the sample code as is, or cut and paste from it as you wish, to create, then expand, your own applications. The only restriction is that you may not distribute the original ImageGear sample applications with your applications.

Many ImageGear functions are demonstrated in at least one of the most all-around useful samples DISPLAY. This program lets you load, display, and print images, and also demonstrates the implementation of a status bar, GUI windows and dialogs. By running this application then examining its source code, you can see how the calls to ImageGear functions such as IG_load_...(), IG_dspl_...(), IG_fltr_...(), IG_GUI_...() and IG_gui_...() interact with the requirements and procedures of Windows programming. You can later use this program as a template for developing an application of your own.

The samples are located in the directory to which you have installed ImageGear (see the sections Directory Structure and Description of Installed Files).

You can begin developing an application easily by choosing an appropriate sample to start with as a template, making a backup copy to preserve it, and editing it - cutting and pasting whole sections from other samples if you wish. In this way, you will begin with a working program that displays images on your screen from the start, so you can test and debug each new feature as you add it to your code.

See Description of Installed Samples for information about the available samples.