LMD-Tools Standard/Professional

© 1997, 98 by LMD Innovative, http://www.lmd.de

LMD Tools 3, is a collection of 110+ native Delphi components that can be compiled into your application royalty free, and without the need of additional files for distribution. Buttons, Dialogs, Multimedia, System, Data-aware, Container, Standard, Label, and Extended controls will allow the developer to produce professional applications, quicker and easier than ever before.

If you are looking for enhanced functionality of existing components in the VCL, or just want to add that personal touch to your application, LMD Tools 3 has a solution to fit you. And it ships with a vast array of sample projects and demos for all of the components found in the package. As very special bonus each version is bundled with WPTools Light (LMD-Edition, easy to use RTF-editor and -label).

FEATURES:

In addition to the following features found in both versions of LMD-Tools, Professional version also includes:

• BC++ compatible object files
• full source of all components/routines/component- and property-editors.
• Additional bonus apps like a DFM-extractor

Components in Standard and Professional Versions:

LMDBtn Tab

• TLMDSpeedButton - Extended replacement for TSpeedButton, adds additional texteffects (3D, rotation, free positionining, multiline text) and display of popup-menus. Can be linked to Image- and BitmapList components as well.
• TLMDDockSpeedButton - Speed Button that can be "docked" to another component ( (e.g. TEdit - movement and sizes changes affect both controls then).
• TLMDButton - Extended replacement for TButton, adds additional texteffects (3D, rotation, free positionining, multiline text) and display of popup-menus. Can be linked to Image- and BitmapList components as well.
• TLMDDockButton - Button that can be "docked" to another component ( (e.g. TEdit - movement and sizes changes affect both controls then).
• TLMDOfficeButton - Button that supports the flat Office 97 Look.
• TLMDDockOfficeButton - Office button that can be "docked" to another component ( (e.g. TEdit - movement and sizes changes affect both controls then).
• TLMDExplorerButton - Button that supports Office 97 look, with more extended modes or transparent display.
• TLMDShapeButton - A button which offers all display possibilities of a TLMDShapeControl component and functionality of a Speedbutton.
• TLMDShapeLabelButton - A button which offers all display possibilities of a TLMDShapeLabel component and functionality of a Speedbutton.
• TLMD3DShapeButton - Extends TLMDShapeButton component with automatic 3D-effects.
• TLMD3DShapeLabelButton - Extends TLMDShapeLabel component with automatic 3D-effects.
• TLMD3DEffectButton - Effect button which provides any bitmap with amazing 3D-effects
• TLMD3DCaptionButton - Effect button which provides any text display with amazing 3D-effects
• TLMDMMButton - Any bitmap can be a button! Supports imagelists and transparent areas for really stunning effects.

LMD DB Tab

• TLMDDBFilter - Component that adds a Filter-event to a DataSet within Delphi 1. This feature is included in Delphi 2, therefore the component routes in Delphi 2 all funtionality to the corresponding Dataset. Use this control if you want to write same code for 16- and 32-bit programs.
• TLMDDBLabel - Like TLMDLabel, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBLabelFill - Like TLMDLabelFill, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBLEDLabel - Like TLMDLEDLabel, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBLight - Like TLMDLight, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBNImage - Like TLMDNImage, can be connected to a TDataSource. It uses fewer resources than a TDBImage control.
• TLMDDBProgress - Like TLMDProgress, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBProgressFill - Like TLMDProgressFill, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBRestoreGrid - Within a TDBGrid component an enduser is usually able to resize and move columns within a datagrid .If you want to provide saving and restoring of these settings you should use this component (without writing any code).
• TLMDDBShapeControl - Like TLMDShapeControl, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBShapeLabel - Like TLMDShapeLabel, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBSimpleLabel - Like TLMDSimpleLabel, can be connected to a TDataSource.
• TLMDDBSwitch - Like TLMDSwitch, can be connected to a TDataSource.

LMD Ext Tab

• TLMD2PaneSplitCtrl - This splitter component allows easy access to all properties of single panes (e.g. Color and Autoscroll-feature) or the splitterbar (e.g. color, width etc.). Unlike other available splitter components this one support panes and splitter-bars in one component (up to 4 different panes and up to 3 movable bars).
• TLMD3PaneSplitCtrl - 3 panes and two movable splitter bars supported.
• TLMD4PaneSplitCtrl - 4 panes and two movable splitter bars supported.
• TLMD4Pane3SplitCtrl - 3 movable splitter bars divide up 4 panes (thus every pane can have any size).
• TLMDTrackBar - Extended slider control with userdefinable display and slider (can be linked to an Image- or BitmapList).
• TLMDAssist - This panel like control allows fast creation of Windows 95 like "assistants" or "wizards".
• TLMDLabelFill - Extended label control, allowing you to paint any bitmap-texture or a gradient on the letters of a text. As a descendant of TLMDLabel, it is of course also featured with 3D-effects and rotating text.
• TLMDPanelFill - Like TLMDFill, but also usable as container. Properties of labels with the LMD-Tools like 3D- and rotation-effects are included.
• TLMDFill - A component for filling an area and surrounding it with a bevel. You can choose a gradient, any bitmap with attributes like tile, stretch and center or naturally any brush style.
• TLMDProgressFill - Like TLMDMeter and TLMDProgress. Adds additional Fillobject for progress bars painted with textures/gradient fills/brushes.
• TLMDShadowFill - Fill areas with a shadow- or semitransparent effect.
• TLMDLabelFill - Extended label control, allowing you to paint any bitmap-texture or a gradient on the letters of a text. As a descendant of TLMDLabel, it is of course also featured with 3D-effects and rotating text.
• TLMDFormDisplay - This small but very useful component is able to display a form like a panel within the component. This is not only useful for faster loading of forms but also much more resource friendly than using a TNotebook. Besides forms are much easier reusable in other projects than pages of a TNoteBook or similar component.
• TLMDBackPanel - Descendant of TLMDSimplePanel which is specialized on fast display of background images and support of semitransparent LMD controls (e.g. TLMDAniCtrl or TLMDScrollText). Must be linked to an Image- or BitmapList.
• TLMDNImage - Extended Image component. Distinctly improved speed (on drawing transparent) and providing new display modes (e. g. stretching or compressing retaining the original ratio).
• TLMDLImage - Like before, but display of images is controlled by linked Image- or BitmapList (for easy sharing of images among several controls).
• TLMDAniCtrl - Improved animation component. Display of images is controlled by linked ImageList. Many new modes including fast and flickerfree transparent display of animationsi.
• TLMDScrollText - Allows display of scrolling text (horizontal or vertical). Supports transparent display as well.
• TLMDClock - Easily incorporate an analog or digital clock into your application. The clock is similar to the Window's CLOCK.EXE but more powerful. Supports time measurement, countdown or alarm functions.
• TLMDRuler - Display of horizontal or vertical rulers. Measuring between two points is supported.
• TLMDLight - Displays boolean-states easy but very fast.
• TLMDSwitch - A switch for defining boolean-states. Many properties for changing display modes (color, caption, 3D-effects and more). - This small but very useful component is able to display a form like a panel within the component. This is not only useful for faster loading of forms but also much more resource friendly than using a TNotebook. Besides forms are much easier reusable in other projects than pages of a TNoteBook or similar component.

LMD Std Tab

• TLMDSimpleLabel - Fast label-component using 3D-effects. Compared to TLMDLabel it is faster but doesn't contain the Bevel- or rotating-text-properties.
• TLMDLabel - Extended label-control allowing free rotation, 3D-effects, bevel and extended alignment compared to the standard-label.
• TLMDDockLabel - Descendant of TLMDSimpleLabel which is dockable to any TWinControl-component (e.g. TEdit - movement and sizes changes affect both controls).
• TLMDLEDLabel - Represents text like an LED-display.
• TLMDDrawEdge - Draw 3D- lines, boxes and diagonals using the fast Win32-API-function DrawEdge. Also available for 16bit-platforms!
• TLMDSimplePanel - Fast panel without caption with special support for LMD button classes.
• TLMDColorComboBox - Special combobox for choosing colors. Supports standard-, system- and user-defined colors + an extended colordialog.
• TLMDFontComboBox - Like TLMDColorComboBox. Use it for fast selection of fonts at runtime.
• TLMDFontSizeComboBox - Linked to a TLMDFontComboBox component possible font sizes for the current selected font are returned.
• TLMDListBox - Extended listbox with new bevel-, header- and multiline-properties.
• TLMDProgress - Replaces TLMDMeter, adds 3D-effects and extended properties.
• TLMDSpinEdit - Improved replacement for TSpinEdit component.

LMD V1 Tab

The following components are included only for compatibility to version 1 of LMD-Tools. Don't use these components in any new projects!

• TLMDPicClip - Encapsulates images in your .EXE as form data and thus makes working with images much more easily.
• TLMDAniPicClip - Encapsulates animation in your .EXE as form data. Serves as container for TLMDAniImage.
• TLMDAniImage - Displaying of animations consisting of bitmaps. Many different settings like transparent display are possible
• TLMDImage - Extended TImage-component, e. g. with several transparent display-modes.
• TLMDTile - This component is derived from TGraphicControl and serves to fill the background quickly with given textures / patterns (consisting of bitmaps) or gradient fills.
• TLMDMeter - Appealing process-display that supports five modes, e. g. gradients or bitmaps.
• TLMDPanel - Extended panel which supports free text-rotation, 3D-Effects, bevel, extended alignment and filling the background like TLMDTile.

LMD Cont Tab

• TLMDContainerCtrl - LMD-Tools 3 supports a global container class (LMDContainer) which is accessible from any place at runtime. This component specifies data values for the supported container classes at designtime. This component was mainly designed for 16bit platforms where no TDataModule-forms are available (which support sharing of components among other forms).
• TLMDBitmapList - Container component for saving bitmaps (storing palette information).
• TLMDImageList - Container component for saving imagelists (bitmaps of same size without special palette information). Mainly used for animation and button (-> Glyph) controls.
• TLMDStringList - Container component for stringlists.
• TLMDWaveList - Container component for waves.

LMD Dlg Tab

• TLMDAboutDlg - Easily incorporate an "about box" into your application.
• TLMDDirDlg - Using this non-visual component the user is given the opportunity to change a path name quickly.
• TLMDTipDlg - Use the familiar TipDialog you see in many applications to guide the user through your application.
• TLMDWindowListDlg - Allows selection of windows or forms within your application (e.g. for displaying or hiding them).

LMD MM Tab

• TLMDHiTimer - The component represents an alternative to the Delphi-Timer. As it is interrupt controlled high-resolution intervals of one millisecond are possible (contrary to the TTimer).
• TLMDJoystick - Allows simple access to connected joystick(s). Includes function for calibration.
• TLMDScreenSaver - Place the component on a form - and the 'Blank-Screen'-screensaver is ready for your further modifications.
• TLMDWaveComp - Easily encapsulates .WAV files in your program and your finished .EXE by saving sound files as form data.
• TLMDRepeatedShape - Displays geometrical shapes repeating themselves. Uses textures, gradients or brushes and shadow-effects. Suitable as background for graphical applications.
• TLMDShapeControl - Extends Delphi's standard shapecontrol adding various shapes (e. g. Star, Comb, Octagon, direction indicator) as well as special color-, bevel- and shadow-effects. Beyond that it contains almost all properties of the LMDLabel (3D-effects, rotating, etc.).
• TLMDShapeLabel - Extension of the TLMDShapeControl using any fill-options like textures, gradients and brushes. Text can be clipped into the shape.
• TLMDTeethShape - offers frame effects at the edge of q document/form as seen in multimedia-applications or internet pages.
• TLMDTeethShapeLabel - Like TLMDTeethShape, but providing fill-options like texture (with bitmaps), gradient, brushes.

LMD Sys

• TLMDApp - Sets properties of an application at design time instead of runtime, allowing you to attach event-handlers as well.
• TLMDApplicationCtrl - This component is derived from TLMDApp and adds properties and events from the global LMDApplication object. This object adds new methods for controlling logfiles, global exception habdling, time measurement or a global TLMDIniCtrl-object, which can be accessed from your application at any place.
• TLMDTimerPool - Use just one timer for various time-depending-purposes. Processing is controlled either by using a central event-routine or calling a user-defined method. This component helps you saving resources on Windows 3.X.
• TLMDIniCtrl - The TLMDIniCtrl component is an easy to use but very powerful tool to control inifiles or registry settings in one single component. All methods are used in the same way on Inifiles or Registry-Path depending on the setting of one property. Besides many new LMD-Tools components can be linked to a TLMDIniCtrl to save their configuration values without writing any sourcecode.
• TLMDBack - Like TLMDFormFill but specialized on fast display of background images and support of semitransparent LMD controls (e.g. TLMDAniCtrl or TLMDScrollText). Must be linked to an Image- or BitmapList.
• TLMDForm - Extremely versatile tool which adds following functionality to any of your forms that do the following: receiving system-events (e.g. powermanagement messages, graphic-resolution or /system-time changes, etc.), controlling of window's position, max./min. height and width, saving or restoring size and position values (can be linked to TLMDIniCtrl), adding graphical effects (e.g. exploding effects while showing a form)
• TLMDFormFill - Fills your form (also MDI) very fast with a background. You can choose a gradient, any bitmap with attributes like tile, stretch and center or naturally any brush styles.
• TLMDFormShadow - This small component adds a shadow effect to any form. Simply drop the component on the form and set the Shadow property - That's all!
• TLMDFormStyler - Amazingly change the look of your window's title bar. Use the gradient you know from the office-programs or use the 3D-fonts provided. You can even paint the title bar yourself!
• TLMDSysMenu - Allows manipulation of the system menu (Add an ordinary TPopMenu to the system menu!).
• TLMDMRUList - The TLMDMRUList component offers an easy to use tool to add a MRU(Most recently used)-Filelist to the files menu of your application. This component does almost all work for you and can be used even in MDI applications.
• TLMDOneInstance - Safeguards that only one instance of your application can be started.
• TLMDTrayIcon (32bit only) - Allows easy creation of applications for the traybar within Windows 95/Windows NT 4.
• TLMDGlobalHotkey (32bit only) - Allows defining of a systemwide global hotkey.
• TLMDHideNonVC -This small but useful component allows you to hide non visual components on your form. E.g. especially useful if you use dozens of TDataSources or TTables on one form. Nevertheless the component offers you full access to all properties and editors of the hidden components.
• TLMDSysInfo - Provides system information like resources, environment variables, registrated user- and company-names.
• TLMDStrList - Useful and small component to save strings as form-data at designtime.
• TLMDShapeHint - TLMDShapeHint is no descendant of the standard-hint like TLMDHint. It provides extended abilities like special shapes (e. g. bubble), shadow and free positioning.
• TLMDMessageHint - Like before, but appearence of hint windows can be controlled programmatically.
• TLMDHint - Extension of the standard hint. Use multiline hints at designtime, any font, various 3D- and bevel-effects are possible.
• TLMDMouseFencer - "Fences" the mousecursor in a control, a form or any given rectangle.
• TLMDMousePositioner - Positions the mousecursor relating to any control, a form or the defaultbutton.
• TLMDFMDrop - Let your form/any TWinControl receive files easily per Drag&Drop from the filemanager.
• TLMDFile - A handy control that offers properties to allow manipulating a single file easily (e.g. copy, move, create, retrieve attributes, etc.).
• TLMDScreenCanvas - Allows painting on desktop. With its help you can also build a copy of the screen before painting on it.

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