The screenshots below demonstrate several visual features of LMD-Tools. You might download the Megademo from the download areas to get a better imagination how versatile LMD-Tools components and classes are.
Figure A: Windows XP Support
LMD-Tools 8.0 supports in Delphi/CBuilder 5 new Windows XP Themes - even within the IDE (see example above).
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Figures B - G: Effects of new TLMDBitmapEffect object
Use alphablending effects to melt one bitmap with the background (the degree of this operation is fully customizable). In the example above a gradient fill was used, but any other bitmap is allowed as well.
To emphasize a certain area on a background you may convert desired area into grayscale format or...
... you may use brightness effects...
...or you simply invert this area. Please note that almost all LMD-Tools components which support Transparency support the TLMDBitmapEffect object as well.
Most LMD-Tools controls provide an additional menu (activated by right mouseclick) which allows access to the most frequently used properties and objects. Moving the cursor to the object inspector is not required in may cases!
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Figure D: TLMDBitmapList component editor
Several components own really extensive component editors to make designing of an app like a snap. For example the editor above supports addition of Bitmaps via Drag&Drop from Filemanager/Explorer, clipboard data exchange and saving/loading of frequently used bitmaplists.
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