Date: 06.09.2015
(© by LMD Innovative, (http://www.lmd.de or http://www.lmdinnovative.com)

Introduction

LMD ShellPack is a collection of 29 native VCL components that can be compiled into your application royalty free. It contains shell controls which help you in all aspects to create Windows Explorer like projects. Other included components provide access to undocumented windows dialogs or advanced system functions.

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• Compatible with Delphi and C++ Builder XE2 - 10 Seattle, including 64bit support for Delphi XE2 and higher!
• Supported IDEs:
• Delphi 6 - Delphi 10 Seattle
• C++ Builder 6 - C++Builder 10 Seattle
• Delphi 2005.NET - Delphi 2007.NET
• Turbo (2006) Professional versions for Delphi, C++ and Delphi.NET
• All corresponding Studio Products (BDS 2006, CRS 2007, CRS 2009, RAD Studio 2010, XE, XE2, XE3, XE4, XE5, XE6, XE7 etc.)
• Documentation: Includes online help files for Delphi/C++ Builder integration.
• Operating System and hardware requirements depend on the installed Delphi/C++ Builder version.
• Supported operating systems: Win98 and WinNT4 or better (including Windows 7 + 8). 

For recent Delphi releases LMD VCL package support same platforms as the VCL which is included in the IDE (e.g. Delphi 2009 officially supports Win2k or better only)

• Includes 29 controls including full sourcecode
• Component package allows simple und fast creation of Windows Explorer type applications by providing Shell List-/TreeView and Combobox controls
• Provides access to undocumented Windows dialogs
• Simplifies handling of shell links and other shell tasks
• Many predefined TAction objects to set up menus and toolbars easily.
• Extensive demo projects with sourcecode, including a sample Windows Eplorer clone
• Free updates via Internet
• A Site License covers unlimited number of developers in same organization at one location
• Free technical support via public forum (forum.lmd.de), e-mail, fax or mail;
• Also available as part of LMD-Tools and LMD VCL Complete

Component Overview

Tab "LMD Shell"
	TLMDShellConsoleView Use TLMDShellConsoleView control to redirect output of command line batch files to a memo or string list.
	TLMDShellFavoritesMenu Add to your application a Favorites menu for URLs like in Internet Explorer.
	TLMDShellFavoritesDialog Displays the Favorites Dialog from Internet Explorer to organize the prefered links and URLs (if IE 3 or higher is installed on the target system).
	TLMDShellAddFavoritesDialog Displays the Add Favorite Dialog from Internet Explorer (if IE 3 or higher is installed on the target system).
	TLMDShellAppletLoader This component displays several applets and tabs of the control panel.
	TLMDShellRestartDialog This component displays the Windows ShutDown dialog.
	TLMDShellPickIconDialog This component displays the Icon selection dialog for a file or an object.
	TLMDShellRunFileDialog This component displays the Run File... dialog.
	TLMDShellObjectPropertiesDialog This component displays the Properties dialog of an object or file.
	TLMDShellFormatDrivesDialog This component displays the Format Drives dialog.
	TLMDShellFindDialog This component displays the standard Find Computer... or Find Files... dialog.
	TLMDShellNotify This components provides events for several system events.
	TLMDShellComboBox Specialized combobox for display of directory trees (like in Windows Explorer). Used in connection with TLMDShellFolder.
	TLMDShellList Specialized listview for file display (like in Windows Explorer). Used in connection with TLMDShellFolder.
	TLMDShellTree Specialized treeview for display of directory trees (like in Windows Explorer). Used in connection with TLMDShellFolder.
	TLMDShellFolder 'Controller' Component for TLMDShellList, TLMDShellTree and TLMDShellComboBox. Use only one interface to handle current displayed data, because all mentioned components are linked to TLMDShellFolder.
	TLMDShellListDialog This control provides an ready-to-use enduser dialog for customizing header and column display in a TLMDShellList component.
	TLMDShellPathDialog Use this control to provide enduser possibility to administrate a list of paths in a very simple and comfortable way.
	TLMDShellDriveListBox TLMDShellDriveListBox displays the system drives, allowing fast selection of a specific drive.
	TLMDShellNetConnectionDialog This component displays Map-/UnMap Drive dialogs for shared network resources.
	TLMDShellListFilterDialog This control provides an ready-to-use enduser dialog for specifying file/folder filter settings of a TLMDShellFolder component.
	TLMDShellLink The TLMDShellLink control can be used to create or read windows LNK files.
	TLMDShellBrowseDialog The TLMDShellBrowseDialog control provides an extended 'Browse for folder' dialog with additional options against the system folder dialog.
	TLMDShellSysBrowseDialog Wrapper for the WIN32 BrowseForFolderDialog procedure, customized for use within LMD ShellPack component suite.
	TLMDShellAboutDialog Simple Component to display the Windows About-Dialog.
	TLMDFileGrep This powerful component helps you creating FileGrep like applications. Searches for files on a specified set of paths. Possible paramters are creation date, access time, modified time, filemasks, fileattributes, filesize. Result values can be specified (e.g. Filename, FileExtension, Size or  Filename, CreationTime). Can be connected to a LMDListBox for output of result.
	TLMDFileCtrl Supports various file actions for one or more files (copy, delete, remove, rename) and retrieves various file infos for one single file. Includes methods for system imagelist support.
	TLMDVersionInfo Retrieves resource info of a file / dll (CompanyName, BuildNr, LegalTrademark, ...)
	TLMDStarter Use the TLMDStarter component to execute applications or processes. Several start parameters and events are supported. In addition the exact time and date of the start process may be specified.

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