General Information
Introduction
Key Features
Order Links (switches to order page)
Downloads (switches to download page)

Screenshots
Database Form Designer
Property Inspector demo
New Alignment Lines feature

Component Overview
Components of LMD DesignPack 4.0

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Features

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• 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 4.X);
• A Site License covers unlimited number of developers in same organization at one location
• Free technical support via newsgroup (news.lmdtools.com), e-mail, fax or mail;
• Also available as part of LMD-Tools CE (Complete Edition), LMD IDE-Tools or LMD VCL Complete.

New in version 4

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Unicode support for NT-based systems!

Support for Frames and Frame children - including saving/loading roots with frame-copies and inherited from base-frame event handlers. Most notable feature is capability to load forms with frames at run-time without creation of dummy frame instances.

Alignment lines support for design areas - helpful feature to align controls when they are moved or sized (even possible when controls are inserted).

The Designer control supports now saving/restoring of Lock state.

Component captions for non-visual controls

The designer supports grouping of controls. to handle compound controls as single object (which can be moved/resized/deleted).

The TLMDServiceProvider component represent services architecture for simplifying development of extensible applications.

And other minor new helpful additions like predefined form for representing the structure of a design module or integration code for LMD IDE-Tools support. E.g. designer, property inspector and component tree components now have the ability to display useful default popup menus. Also they can just link popup menu components by adding default items automatically. This feature is used to fill popup menu with Delphi like component editor verbs in designer and component tree.

Combined helpfile for all IDE-Tools packages (IDE Integration package, Designpack, ScriptPack and SyntaxEdit).