petermad wrote: ↑2021-04-13, 22:37 UTC
That doesn't mean that wmf files are supported internally, only whether TC will pass wmf files to plugins or Irfanview or not.
Hmm... Maybe technically you are right, the code for showing WMF is not included in Lister yet. Very persistent and curious users, besides the search in history.txt, may also search this forum and see, for example, this:
ghisler(Author) wrote: ↑2011-10-05, 10:43 UTC
GIF will be supported in beta 4.
WMF and EMF are not supported by Lazarus, probably because they are not portable, or because of the risk to have another bug in the play functions. Currently I don't plan to port them to 64-bit.
The transparent WMF/EMF problem already exists in TC 7.56a. I will check whether I can handle that somehow.
But the TC ability to support the formats like WMF/EMF only by external plugins is a
logical conclusion rather than direct information. In the section
The internal file lister (F3) which I mentioned above the word
plugin does not exist at all; contrary, the note of WMF images immediately follows the general information about Lister. Typical user may only guess whether the mentioned image list is strictly limited or extensible.
If so, it's not a Lister code bug rather an inconsistency in the Lister help section of TC manual. It can be improved, for example, this way:
...the rest is automatically loaded when scrolling through the text. All other image formats (TIFF, WEBP, WMF, etc...) are not supported by Lister internally and require the external plugins; without them, Lister will show the images as binary files.