LMD VCL 2012 - What`s New?
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General
Support for IDEs and operating systems
- Compatible with Delphi XE2 and C++ Builder XE2, including 64bit support for Delphi XE2!
- Supported IDEs
- Delphi 6, 7, Delphi 2005 - 2010, XE + XE2
- C++ Builder 6, 2006 - 2010, XE + XE2
- Delphi 2005.NET - Delphi 2007.NET
- Turbo (2006) Professional versions for Delphi, C++ and Delphi.NET
- All corresponding Studio Products (BDS 2006, CRS 2007, CRS 2009, RAD Studio 2010, XE, XE2 etc.)
- Supported operating systems
- Win98 and WinNT4 or better (including Windows 7).
For recent Delphi releases LMD VCL package support same platforms as the VCL which is included in the IDE (e.g. Delphi 2009 officially supports Win2k or better only).
64bit support (Delphi XE2 and higher)
All packages were ported to 64bit. Exception: Compatibility controls (dcllmdlegacy) can not be used in 64bit applications. [Top]
New package naming convention
Package names have been changed to be more consistent with VCL naming convention. LMD version number and IDE version number were removed from package names. Runtime package names are prefixed now with "lmdrt", design-time package names with "dcllmd". Some examples of generated package file names are: lmdrtdocking.dcp, lmdrtdocking.bpi, lmdrtdocking.lib, dcllmddocking.dcp, dcllmddocking.bpi, dcllmddocking.lib. IDE version suffix is still contained only in generated "bpl": lmdrtdocking_160.bpl.
This change simplifies porting projects (supposed they are compiled with run-time packages) to another IDE version. Since package references contain neither IDE version nor LMD platform version, migrating to a future IDE version will require no changes. [Top]
LMD Tools
General
TLMDDBAliasNamesComboBox
This component uses features of BDE which is deprecated. Therefore control was moved to Legacy Package. If you used this control, please make sure to install dcllmdlegacy package (not installed by default from installer!).
TLMDDBDriverComboBox
This component uses features of BDE which is deprecated. Therefore control was moved to Legacy Package. If you used this control, please make sure to install dcllmdlegacy package (not installed by default from installer!).
TLMDDBTablesComboBox
This component uses features of BDE which is deprecated. Therefore control was moved to Legacy Package. If you used this control, please make sure to install dcllmdlegacy package (not installed by default from installer!).
LMDBaseEdit
Three values added to TLMDEditOption type: eoAllowCopy, eoAllowCut, eoAllowPaste. All LMDBaseEdit descendants which expose 'Options' property now support setting separate permissions for each of Copy/Cut/Paste action.
Actions in popup menu are shown/hidden according to current options. For example, all copy/cut/paste operations are disabled:
LMDFormComboBox
New component TLMDFormComboBox added. This control is a generic combobox, allowing to dropdown a form containing any visual control:
LMDDateTimePicker
New component TLMDDateTimePicker added. LMDCalendar and LMDClock controls received Style and ColorScheme properties. See screenshots of LMDDateTimePicker with different calendar and clock styles:
LMDMaskEdit
LMDMaskEdit received new mask type: meDateTime and new property TimeSettings.
The mask type allows to edit both date and time part of a DateTime value. For 'meTime' mask type a convenient edit mode is now supported, similar to that for meDate mask type.
Custom time formats support added. For custom formats time separator must be ':'
Custom formats can use
- 'h' for hours in 12 hour format,
- 'H' for for hours 24 hour format,
- 'm' or M for minutes,
- 's' or S for seconds,
- 't' for AM/PM sign if 't' is omitted, then AM/PM sign is added at the end with a space.
'hh' ('mm', 'ss') means that leading zero is displayed, 'h' ('m', 's') means that leading zero is NOT displayed.
Examples:
- 'h:mm:ss' - 3:34:12 am
- 'hh:mm' - 03:34 am
- 'hh:mmt' - 03:34am
- 't h:mm' - am 3:34
- 'HH:mm:ss' - 03:34:12
