LMD VCL 2007 - What's New?

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LMDRTL

• Unicode Support
• Native, unicode enabled RegExpression engine
• Native, unicode XML support
• New LMDBitmap class (LMDBitmap.pas)
• Native ZLib Support
• LogTools Basic support / LMDThread

LMDRTLX

• Vista Style controls and support
• New ThemeEngine
• Shared ImageList support
• Native PNG support
• Cab files Support
• Improved HTMLRenderer

Enhancements / Changes

General

• TLMDControl and TLMDBaseControl removed
• LMDProcs.pas -> LMDFireURL added

LMD Std

TLMDBaseLabel and descendants
+ loShowLabelHint flag in Options property added (if Hint= and ShowHint, display LabelText as hint).

TLMDStaticText
+ loShowLabelHint flag in Options property added

TLMDSimpelLabel
+ property ShowURLInHint
+ property ShowURLMenu
+ method CopyURL

LMD Dlg

General
+ Font property for native dialogs

TLMDCalendarDlg
+ StartDay property

TLMDInputDlg
+ OnEditChange event
+ InputQueryMask method
+ InputQueryEx method (useful for LogIn dialogs etc.)

LMD List

General

• All previous VCL derived combobox controls (TLMDColorComboBox, TLMDComboBox) are now derived from TLMDThemedComboBox and support native ThemeEngine.

TLMDCalendarComboBox
+ StartDay property

TLMDCheckListComboBox
+ CheckBtnDefault property
+ CheckBtnMode property
+ State array property (public)

TLMDImageComboBox
+ GlyphNumber and GlyphColumn properties

TLMDTrackBarComboBox
+ TrackBarBorder, TrackBarMargin, TrackBarHeight and TrackBarWidth properties

LMD Sys

+ MRUList: New ToolButton property

LMD Standalone Packages

ShellPack

+ TLMDShellConsoleView component

General Changes

Package structure

lmdrtl
Runtime and helper units, nonvisual base classes. Used by all subpackages and LMD-Tools (example: TLMDApplication, TLMDIniCtrl, XML services, LMD base interfaces etc.). Provides base classes like TLMDCustomComponent etc., from which all LMD-Tools controls should be derived from.

lmdrtlx
Runtime and helper units, nonvisual base classes and custom visual classes which are used by fewer controls and packages (example: PNG, LMD graphical objects).

lmdcore
Standard controls and shared controls which are used by larger sub packages and LMD-Tools. In addition the LMD-Tools Core controls will represent the new "SE" version which supports fully themed display and centralized visual appearance setting. In addition LMD Core controls can be downloaded by all registered user

lmdtools
LMD-Tools standard and database controls (as known from previous release).

Common designtime features

• New ILMDComponent interface, see intfLMDBase and LMDBase. Will be used to identify components to certain packages and to retrieve version number of a component at runtime.
• Only one About-Dialog for all controls (distinction will be made via ILMDComponent interface return values).
• All version number/date information for packages are stored now in LMDPackages.inc in LMDRTL folder. No more specific package inc files like LMDTools.inc etc.
• Only one component symbol file (LMDCPData.dcr can be found in \lmdshared folder)
• A new res file for all splash screens (LMDSplash.res in \lmdshared folder)
• C++ Builder files are created with Delphi Compiler and TLIB.exe conly.