The first release of LMD ElPack 4 was in May 2, 2003 (at this time still published by Eldos).
LMD ElPack 4 includes the following new features:
Style Manager. This component lets you change appearance of all components in your application with one line of code. Styles are similar to CSS (cascading style sheets) used in web design with the difference, that they are hierarchical. LMD ElPack 4 will be shipped with several predefined styles that include regular Windows style, default LMD ElPack style and one or more 2D styles.
Support for Windows XP themes on other Windows versions. We are still working on XP theme engine that can load themes in Windows XP formats and all LMD ElPack controls will use the loaded theme then. This lets you make your application skinnable on all platforms quite easily -- there are hundreds of custom themes for Windows XP so you won't need to draw your own skins.
One more virtuality level for ElTree. With vlAllProps almost all item's properties are requested from the application.
Speed improvements for ElTree. It is possible to populate ElTree with 1 000 000 (one million) items in about a second now (with new virtuality level).
Word wrapped multiline text in ElTree.
Translucent selection (highlight) for controls. It is useful when your control has custom background and you want to see the background through the item.
Support for 32-bit images with alpha level in controls.
Custom scrollbars for controls. These scrollbars replace the standard windows scrollbars and offer the same features found in ElTree and ElEdit. And those scrollbars can be plugged to almost any VCL control.
