What road to take to load an SVG graphic into a FireMonkey app?

Question

There are about four implementations I can think of that are capable of loading SVG graphics into a Delphi application.

One of those, by Mattias Andersson, who is the author of FMX.Canvas.VPR , works with FireMonkey, but he's not yet prepared to release the code.

A second one, by Martin Walter, works with the VCL, but developer has quit Delphi and has no plans to convert to FireMonkey.

A third one, part of the AGGPAS framework, works with the VCL, but no FireMonkey.

A fourth one is in development by Jason Southwell, but no date has been fixed yet.

So my question: what road to take if I want an SVG component today, without trying to reinvent the wheel a fifth (and probably more) time?

Answer 1

I'm Mattias Andersson -- the author of FMX.Canvas.VPR; I can say that I'm still actively working on the SVG solution. I guess once I have properly added support for gradients and text rendering then I can release a first beta version. I'm relying on TXMLDocument and that is a bit restrictive in what you are permitted to do (IMO), so I've had to invent some workarounds (maybe a better option would have been to implement my own XML class from scratch.) Also, I've had to do some run-time patching of the FireMonkey classes in order to make everything work correctly. The good part is that I'm actually implementing things according to the SVG interface specifications.