Date: 27.06.2003
(© by LMD Innovative, (http://www.lmd.de or http://www.lmdtools.com)

Introduction

LMD DesignPack 2.X is a collection of 7 native VCL components that can be compiled into your application royalty free. It contains controls which help you to enhance your projects with advanced designing features - either by adding object inspector like controls, extended form designers or diagram like objects.

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System Requirements

• Operating System and hardware requirements depend on the installed Delphi/C++ Builder version.
• Support for Delphi/C++ Builder version 5 and higher.
• Required Space: 2 to 10 M, depends on selected installation options.
• Media Type: Online only
• Documentation: Includes online help files for Delphi/C++ Builder integration.

Features

• 7 components for adding design features to your applications
• Provides object inspector like component, form designer and diagram based controls
• Full sourcecode of library
• Extensive demo projects demonstrating advanced features - even a report designer is basically included!
• Free updates via Internet (Version 2.X)
• Free technical support via newsgroup (news.lmdtools.com), e-mail, fax or mail
• Also available as part of LMD-Tools 7 CE (Complete Edition)

• New TLMDDesignManager control: Connect designer control(s) with object combobox/property inspector to set up designable forms with almost no code
• New TLMDObjectComboBox control: Delphi object inspector like object combo box
• Support of ASCII/binary DFM format for saving/restoring form data
• New useful demo projects demonstrate now even advanced features, existing ones were improved
• TLMDDesigner: Nonvisual controls are supported now! And much more...

 

Tab "LMD Design"

TLMDDesigner Use TLMDDesigner to make enduser design features similar to the form designer in Delphi IDE available. The control can be used in two ways: At first as stand alone control to set a form in "design mode" or used in connection with TLMDDesignPanel. A TLMDDesignPanel control acts as container for any TWinControl descendant for which runtime design features should be made available.

TLMDObjectComboBox ComboBox like in Delphi object inspector, allowing display and selection of controls in the current designer.

TLMDDBDiagramm The TLMDDBDiagram class represents a more specialized variant of TLMDDiagram component. It is usually used to visualize relationships of database tables, similar to the table relationship diagrams e.g. known from MS Access.

TLMDDesignPanel The DesignPanel control is required if you want to use TLMDDesigner in connection with a TWinControl descendant (instead of using the "form designer" mode). This control does not provide any design features itself, it handles only the control for which design feature should be enabled (e.g. adds scrollbars when design area extends dimensions of TLMDDesignPanel etc.).

TLMDDesignManager Use TLMDDesignManager to connect designer control(s) with object combobox and property inspector components. Thus creation of a designer with object inspector like features is simplified, because almost no synchronization code is required.

TLMDPropertyInspector The TLMDPropertyInspector control simulates functionality of the object inspector which is known from the Delphi / CBuilder IDE. With a couple of mouse clicks and a few lines of code you can integrate advanced design features into your applications. In addition the component provides a powerful interface which allows simple integration of own property editors or extended features.

TLMDDiagram The TLMDDiagram component allows display of boxes which can be linked to each other, so that relationships between different items can be made visible.

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