How to get dimensions of image file in Delphi?

Question

I want to know width and height of an image file before opening that file.

So, how to do that?

EDIT: This refers to jpg, bmp, png and gif types of image fil

Answer 1

As a complement to Rafael's answer, I believe that this much shorter procedure can detect BMP dimensions:

function GetBitmapDimensions(const FileName: string; out Width,
  Height: integer): boolean;
const
  BMP_MAGIC_WORD = ord('M') shl 8 or ord('B');
var
  f: TFileStream;
  header: TBitmapFileHeader;
  info: TBitmapInfoHeader;
begin
  result := false;
  f := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmOpenRead);
  try
    if f.Read(header, sizeof(header)) <> sizeof(header) then Exit;
    if header.bfType <> BMP_MAGIC_WORD then Exit;
    if f.Read(info, sizeof(info)) <> sizeof(info) then Exit;
    Width := info.biWidth;
    Height := abs(info.biHeight);
    result := true;
  finally
    f.Free;
  end;
end;