You are correct. There is no discussion of this anywhere including in the source code. There is a demo PhotoEn that has this:
procedure TMainForm.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
// uncomment to enable Gif and TIFF-LZW
(*
DefGIF_LZWDECOMPFUNC:=GIFLZWDecompress;
DefGIF_LZWCOMPFUNC:=GIFLZWCompress;
DefTIFF_LZWDECOMPFUNC:=TIFFLZWDecompress;
DefTIFF_LZWCOMPFUNC:=TIFFLZWCompress;
//*)
end;
The only thing I can say about it is I do not personally use it, but it looks like it enables LZW compression for GIF and TIF files. I do know that the code has been around for a long, long, long... long time.
Nigel said in the forum:
These properties exist for legacy reasons. You should not need to use them as they are initialized automatically:
IEGlobalSettings().DefGIF_LZWDECOMPFUNC
IEGlobalSettings().DefGIF_LZWCOMPFUNC
IEGlobalSettings().DefTIFF_LZWDECOMPFUNC
IEGlobalSettings().DefTIFF_LZWCOMPFUNC
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