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Rafael: /* Common */

2025-04-15T11:24:38Z

‎Common

Rafael at 11:15, 15 April 2025

2025-04-15T11:15:21Z

Rafael at 11:13, 15 April 2025

2025-04-15T11:13:51Z

Balabuyew: /* Floating panels Z-order */

2025-04-02T05:55:54Z

‎Floating panels Z-order

Balabuyew: /* Floating panels Z-order */

2025-04-02T05:50:51Z

‎Floating panels Z-order

Balabuyew: /* Layout saving and loading */

2025-04-02T05:43:18Z

‎Layout saving and loading

Balabuyew: /* High DPI support */

2025-04-01T18:13:31Z

‎High DPI support

Balabuyew: /* Package Changes */

2025-04-01T18:12:03Z

‎Package Changes

Balabuyew: /* Package Changes */

2025-04-01T18:10:07Z

‎Package Changes

Balabuyew: /* Layout saving and loading */

2025-04-01T18:09:32Z

‎Layout saving and loading

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 === Common ===
 [+] Rework of component icons for all LMD VCL controls.<br>
 [+] X64 design-time packages support for Delphi 12.3<br>
-[+] Support for the new Win64x platform in RAD Studio 12 ('''Universal Installer only''', pre-compiled releases. Source code version supported Modern C++ projects already before). Please note: RAD Studio 12.1 is the minimum requirement for pre-compiled Athens installers.
+[+] Support for the new Win64x platform in RAD Studio 12 ('''Universal Installer only''', pre-compiled releases. Source code version supported Modern C++ projects already before). Please note: RAD Studio 12.1 is the minimum requirement for pre-compiled Athens installers.<br>
 [*] Universal Installer: Offline installation supported by providing zip files with all possible files for a specific IDE (trial and full version)<br>
 [*] Universal Installer: Internally used DLLs are now signed to prevent false positives from  AV scanners<br>
-[*] Several changes in Universal Installer (e.g. LMD Themes engine added to Legacy Package)
+[*] Several changes in Universal Installer (e.g. LMD Themes engine added to Legacy Package)<br>
 === LMD Tools ===

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 === Component Icons ===
-Component icons for all LMD VCL packages has been updated. Color scheme has been adjusted to match newest Delphi IDE native colors. Pixel-perfect icons are provided in 24x24 size, so consider to change the Component Palette settings accordingly.<br>
+The component icons for all LMD VCL packages have been updated. The colour scheme has been adapted to the latest native colours of the Delphi IDE. Pixel-perfect icons are provided in 24x24 size, so you should change the component palette settings accordingly.
-For older IDE versions, which do not support icon transparency, standard clBtnFace background is mixed with the icon images to provide a nice look with minimal possible transparency related artefacts.<br>
+For older IDE versions that do not support icon transparency, the default clBtnFace background is blended with the icon images to achieve a nice look with minimal possible transparency-related artefacts.<br>
 [[File:474969996CF5.png]] [[File:55A44D76AB6F.png]] [[File:9C3BACBFC048.png]] [[File:7F340286719C.png]]<br>

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 === Installers ===
-* New universal installer for all LMD products. For a limited time installers with old installer technology will be provided in parallel.
+* New universal installer for all LMD products
 * Demo projects are now stored in commpon documents folder (not in main folder like in previous releases)
 * Registered versions: If no license file is found, you can now pick up a valid license file from within the installers
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 === Free access to Git repositories for LMD VCL Complete ===
-We moved our sources to new  git-based project structure. All VCL Complete 2025 customers receive free access to the Git repositories (based on GitLab). Visit your customer area and use the displayed link in your 2025 license to connect to GitLab. SSO with credentials for customer area is supported).
+LMD VCL Complete 2025 customers receive free access to the Git repositories (based on GitLab). Visit your customer area and use the displayed link in your 2025 license to connect to GitLab. SSO with credentials for customer area is supported.
 Check also [https://www.lmd.de/gitrepositories Quick overview] for more info.
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 Subscription period refers only to the right receiving free <b>major</b> version updates. <br>If your subscription expires, your licenses behaves like before (free minor updates until next major release, '''perpetual''' use of the current license).
 *<i>How to renew</i><br>
-Renewals for existing licenses will be applied as extension period to the end of your previous subscription (for example, if your subscription expires 11-Dec-2016, renewing will give you updates until 11-Dec-2017). If your existing subscription has been expired for over three months, you will receive major updates for at least 9 months from the date of renewal. Please note that the term “subscription period” refers to major updates only. As usual product licenses never expire, minor updates with same major version number are always included free of charge and so on.
+Renewals for existing licenses will be applied as extension period to the end of your previous subscription (for example, if your subscription expires 11-Dec-2025, renewing will give you updates until 11-Dec-2026). If your existing subscription has been expired for over three months, you will receive major updates for at least 9 months from the date of renewal. Please note that the term “subscription period” refers to major updates only. As usual product licenses never expire, minor updates with same major version number are always included free of charge and so on.
 * <i>Will I receive notification mails to renew?</i><br>
 We send you notification emails before subscription expires. If you don’t want to receive them, check your profile page and uncheck option “I want to receive mails about my licenses expiration”.
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 == Package Changes ==
-<br>
+=== General ===
 === Component Icons ===

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 [[File:FD5CB120F24F.png]]<br>
-Implementation uses stay-on-top Windows concept, which may introduce slight behavior artefacts.
+Delphi's implementation of stay-on-top forms are not suitable for multiple forms, resulting in flickering and some other issues. So, we had to reimplement the feature on low level, which may introduce slight behavior artefacts, and may not be fully compatible with Delphi's stay-on-top forms.
 ==== High DPI support ====

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 *foAllNormal
 *foToolFormsOnTop
 Implementation uses stay-on-top Windows concept, which may introduce slight behavior artefacts.

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 DockManager.SaveToFile('layout.xml', [sfExcludeSpace, sfExcludeFloatDocs]);
 DockManager.LoadFromFile('layout.xml', [lfPreserveSpace]);‎</syntaxhighlight>
 ==== Floating panels Z-order ====

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 [[File:EE8669A99040.png]]<br>
-All included styles are modified accordingly:
+All included styles are reworked and modified accordingly:
 [[File:17368BD8C7C8.png]]<br>

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 == Package Changes ==
 === Component Icons ===
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 [[File:474969996CF5.png]] [[File:55A44D76AB6F.png]] [[File:9C3BACBFC048.png]] [[File:7F340286719C.png]]<br>
 === LMD DockingPack ===
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 *New TLMDDockPanel.OnHighlightHeader event.
 === LMD SyntaxEdit ===
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 [[File:B1CB46E3A648.png]]<br>
 === LMD DialogPack ===
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 [[File:B1236BA04C46.png]]<br>
 === LMD ElPack ===

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 Now the layout can be saved skipping space zone content (tabbed documents) and as well as floating documents. The layout can be loaded back while preserving current space zone content (tabbed documents) and floating documents. New save and load method overloads include anddtional flags parameter to control this behavior:
 ‎<syntaxhighlight lang="delphi" line>
 DockManager.SaveToFile('layout.xml', [sfExcludeSpace, sfExcludeFloatDocs]);
 DockManager.LoadFromFile('layout.xml', [lfPreserveSpace]);‎</syntaxhighlight>