August 19, 2006
LMD DesignPack is a collection of 9 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.
Features are:
- 9 components for adding design features to your applications
- Provides object inspector like component, form designer and diagram based controls
- TLMDDesignManager control: Connect designer control(s) with object combobox/property inspector to set up designable forms with almost no code
- TLMDObjectComboBox control: Delphi object inspector like object combo box
- Support of ASCII/binary DFM format for saving/restoring form data
- Full sourcecode of library
- Extensive demo projects demonstrating advanced features - even a report designer is basically included!
- Free updates via Internet (Version 3.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 in version 3
- New TLMDDesignObjects collection component. Greatly simplifies interoperation between different DesignPack components in Delphi db-aware like style.
- New TLMDModule component. Some module-related utilities and events were moved from other DesignPack components to the TLMDModule component. It actually implements all required functionality for event support and enhanced streaming. It is designed to be used not only while designing, but also at runtime e.g. for loading of forms and hooking runtime event handlers.
- True Event support. Includes ability to work with events in property inspector, to store/load event handler references in *.dfm file in Delphi style. So, text DFMs also can be used to store forms with event handlers. Design pack relies on external source code utilities for managing event handler source code. Also external runtime event handler hooking mechanism is expected (for example from scripting library). LMD ScriptPack was prepared for working with DesignPack smoothly!
- Property names translation was implemented in TLMDPropertyInspector control (OnTranslateProp event).
- Collection property editor was added.
Please check Product Data Sheet for more info, trials are available at LMD Innovative public download area.