Delphi XE4 - TImage is not displayed at runtime

Question

Note: In the original question I was in a hurry and wrongly assumed that the problem was related to VCL Styles, but at the end after some testing it seems to be related to the SynGdiPlus.pas, so I removed the original description.

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The problem:

TImage correctly shows the image at designtime but not at runtime.

The cause:

Gdip.RegisterPictures;//initialize SynGdiPlus.pas from Synopse.info

My solution:

Removed the use of SynGdiPlus.pas and notified the author about the problem, use the built-in support for PNG files provided by VCL.

Answer 1

Your version of SynGdiPlus is clearly deprecated.

The current revision has a NOTSYNPICTUREREGISTER condition, which is enabled by default:

initialization
{$ifndef NOTSYNPICTUREREGISTER}
  Gdip.RegisterPictures; // will initialize the Gdip library if necessary
{$endif}

Ensure you got the latest revision of the source code tree.