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Fixes to avoid "no Parent-Window" exception

BernhardGeyer — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:45:26 -0400

Please change following code to avoid above exception unter some circumstances:

ElPgCtl.pas

TElPageControl.ChangeActivePage -> Add "if HandleAllocated then" bevore Realign
TElPageControl.IntMouseDown -> Add try..except around SetFocus
TElPageControl.IntLButtonUp -> Add try..except around SetFocus
TElPageControl.RecalcTabPositions -> Change "if HasVP then" to "if HasVP and HandleAllocated then"

ElTree.pas

TElTreeItem.RedrawItemPart -> Add "if FOwner.FView.HandleAllocated() then" bevore InvalidateRect
TElTreeItem.RedrawItem -> Add "if FOwner.FView.HandleAllocated() then" bevore InvalidateRect

LMDWebPack Demos - Can't get any working!

JohnB — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:01:45 -0400

Following a recent purchase of the web pack I thought I'd just run through the demos to see which one best suited my needs. Essentially what I originally wanted is for an application to update itself from the web (or preferably intranet) whenever there was a newer version of the application file.

I'm not clear which of the "auto update" demonstration programs would be best suited so I've been trying them all with little success. Having got them apparently connecting to a web site (I couldn't get anywhere with an intranet connection) for pAutoUpdate I get "cant find LMDAutoUpdate component" and for the others I get "unrecognised scheme" error message.

Could someone point me in the right direction please as to :

a) Given what I want to do (a typical request I should think!), what of the updates would be the best to use?
b) What am I stupidly doing wrong to get these errors?

I've had a trawl through the Wiki option and other documentation but fear I have now spent so much time on this that I'm just confusing myself!

Many thanks

John

Re SyntaxEdit: How do I avoid seeing an "End of document reached..." message using Search

johnc — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:50:15 -0400

I am using TLMDCustomEditView.SearchFirst to perform a simple search. At the end of the search I get a messagebox reading "End of document reached. Continue search/replace from start?". How do I eliminate this message?

Thank you!

TLMDSysSystemInfo on Windows 7

rvp71 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:57:43 -0400

Hello,

I have 2012.2 version of the components installed on Delphi XE.
I cannot get TLMDSysSystemInfo or other of those components work.

Are these components capable for Windows 7?

LMD Docking Pin Question

Stewart81 — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:48:30 -0400

Hi,

I haven't purchased the docking pack yet as I am evaluating it to determine if it will fit my needs. So far I have been very impressed but there is one question I have that I haven't been able to figure out myself. I have a panel which I want to stay universally tabbed except when it's needed to display information to the end user so my plan is to leave it in the pinned state. The question I have is there a way to have the panel slide out via code and keep it slid out as long as I need it to be and then hide it again when I am done with it?

Thanks for your feedback and once again so far this appears to be a heck of a nice library.

Thanks,

Stewart

Unicode-EnabledTElFileNameEdit

BernhardGeyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:18:39 -0400

Hi,

please make TElFileNameEdit Unicode-Enabled for pre-D2009-Version.
I've changed following to get it run:

Change String -> TLMDString
TElFileNameDialog = class(TLMDSaveDialog)
and disable TaskModualDialog-Methode of TElFileNameDialog.

The best think would to move to TLMDFileOpenDialog, but this could cause problem because of OnBeforeDialogExecute-Event.

How to Change fontcolor in Memo

RobertP — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:29:53 -0400

Hi
I want override the TextOut and change color depending on text
How to?

limiting docking freedom

Roadrunner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:34:13 -0400

Being a LMD DockingPack newbie, I miss how-to´s or samples showing how to limit the users freedom (and thereby potential problems).

One example could be an ap where two panels are docked to the appplications right border.

The user should be able to pull the pin and autohide both panels, but no additional panels should be dockable to this zone and the two panels sholud not be able to detach from this zone.

I think the key is the Site's OnDockOver event, but I'm unsure of the criterias.

Best regards

Roadrunner

Docking component

philgerm — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:44:52 -0500

with delphi XE2 and new theme ( carbon and other) the Hotspot is no visible ?

Maximize LMDDockPanel

maurix — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:59:28 -0400

Is there a way to display a maximize button in the header or a way to maximize a floating dockpanel like it happens in normai forms. For example Visual Studio does that with the floating windows and VS dock panels can be maximized even putting them on the screen bounds (as it usually happens with forms in Windows 7).

Thanks.

"Not implemented/Nicht implentiert" bei LMD DesignPack

PeterFunny93 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:10:17 -0400

Hi,

im using the registered version of LMD DesignPack 2012 with C++ Builder XE2 Update 4.

When trying to use a TCppWebBrowser on the Designpanel, after every action like move or resize
a MessageBox ("Nicht implementiert") pops up.

Whats this?

---------------------------
Benachrichtigung über Debugger-Exception
---------------------------
Im Projekt designer.exe ist eine Exception der Klasse EOleException mit der Meldung 'Nicht implementiert' aufgetreten.
---------------------------
Anhalten Fortsetzen Hilfe
---------------------------

Designer not updating properties in property inspector when form is resized

kgiddings — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:20:25 -0400

Hi,

I have created a form designer, using the design tools, and I have it set so that I'm using a design panel, as I want the form itself to be designable (ie it's size etc). So I set the Module Root to the form, set the forms top and left properties to 0 and set OSDesigner active to true. This is all working nicely except for two things:

1. There are no grab icons on the form itself (I suspect this is a feature request)
2. Any changes I make to the form (resizing it for example) are not reflected in the property inspector and the ModuleCompsModified event i not fired.

I have ExcludeRoot set to False in the LMDDesigner instance.

Incidentally the inverse works - editing width in the property inspector updates the forms size in the designer.

Regards
Keith

Docking info about dynamically created panels/forms

Roadrunner — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:53:42 -0400

In an application where forms/frames are created dynamicaly and added in TLMDDockingPanels, how do you integrate the saving/loading of panel layout?

I would like to register a class/instance information pair on every panel, so I can recreate an identical set, when restarting the app.

Is there a solution for this ?

in the XML file there is a entry per panel. Can I customize the id attribute?

Missing Check "CanFocus" for TCustomElAdvancedPanel

BernhardGeyer — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:21:46 -0400

Please add

if CanFocus then

before

FCaptionPanel.SetFocus

in methode

TCustomElAdvancedPanel.WMSetFocus

"Block" parameter in TLMDCustomEditView SetSelection ?

johnc — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:36:19 -0400

The SetSelection method (and some related methods) appears to need a parameter referring to a "block" mode. I don't see this documented. I ~think~ I have the latest help file. This is for the LMD Syntax Editor current as of now (April 2012) installed in C++ Builder 2007. Can you tell me what it refers to? Thank you.

Dockingpack + OpenGL/DirectX ?

bikechecker — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:52:11 -0400

Hello,

do you think an OpenGL/DirectX TPanel descendant will work in the docking site?

I tried a simple TPaintBox (OnPaint event on canvas) and it did not work.

May the styled painting mess it up?

Thank you for your answer (and it's a great docking library).

Save Docking-XML in my own projectfile

Jens01 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:19:05 -0400

The XML-string can I get in this way from the Docking-Manager:

s := TStringStream.Create;
Dockmanager1.SaveToStream(s);
Result := s.DataString;
s.Free;

That works fine! I save it as a XML-string in my project-file.

But when I want to send a XML-string from my file to the Docking-Manager Delphi always give an exception.
Source:
s := TStringStream.Create;
s.WriteString(MyXMLstring);
Dockmanager1.LoadFromStream(s);
s.Free;

The exception EReadError comes here:
procedure TLMDXmlDocument.Load(aStream: TStream);
...
aStream.ReadBuffer(aBinarySign[1], LMDBinXmlSignatureSize);
...

What do I wrong?

Greetings Jens

LMDBiProgressBar

horkinc — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:39:20 -0500

I can't seem to get the LMDBiProgressBar to work correctly. I can't seem to change the color, regardless of color settings. It is always green. Anyone figured this out?

TElEdit (Memo-Mode) and Autodisplay of Scrollbars

BernhardGeyer — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:26:10 -0500

Is it possible to set some properties to get the scrollbar in TElEdit/TElMemo to be displayed automatically if needed?
Currently I can set Scrollbar = ssBoth and the scrollbar is disabled if not needed. I want to get it only visible if needed

Can't find ELColorMap

gullbyrd — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:56:49 -0500

I have the task of updating an old Delphi 7 app that used ELPack. It makes extensive use of a unit called ELColorMap. I installed D7 and the ELPack for D7, but there is no ELColorMap and I can't find any reference to it. Is it possible that this is some home-grown unit, or was there once a unit by that name in ELPack?

TLMDShellList

Dave — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:47 -0500

How do I get LMDShellList to sort correctly when using custom columns?

Dave....

Minor SyntaxEdit questions and suggestions for

tranglos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:55:13 -0500

I registered LMD IDE-Tools very recently. I'm just starting to use the editor control and I have a few questions and issues, in order of their relative importance to me:

(a) Is it possible to specify the color used for displaying "special characters"? If not, please consider this a feature request.

Explanation: I am a translator, and I enable displaying "whitespace" characters in every editor that supports it, because a difference between one and two spaces is sometimes the difference between a correct text and a punctuation error. However, it helps a lot if the special characters can be displayed using a slightly dimmer color, so that they are distinct from the surrounding text. The difference in readability is actually quite significant when there is a lot of text. (I have attached a screenshot to compare the result; the LMD editor is on the right.)

(b) How can I highlight every occurence of a string in the editor? I know of the highlight command, but it only applies to the current selection. Instead, it would be great e.g. to highlight all matches after a search (like the Delphi IDE and some other Windows editors do).

(c) It would be nice to have the ability to mark modified / saved lines in a gutter bar, like the Delphi IDE does.

(d) Is it possible to change the frequency of line numbers? For example, to display the full number every five lines instead of every ten?

(e) In the line-numbering bar, is it possible to hide the soft-wrap markers? In a large paragraph with a lot of wrapped lines, they tend to obscure the view. (If not hide them, then perhaps display them in a much dimmer color?)

(f) Is it possible to display a ruler above the editor (with distance markers in cm or inches)? Something similar to the left part of the screenshot, perhaps?

Thanks a lot for your time!

URL highlighting in TLMDEditView?

tranglos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:45:46 -0500

I am using TLMDEditView to edit small pieces of text without any specific syntax highlighting scheme. However, I would like the editor to highlight URLs and make them clickable, which is a popularly requested feature in every current editor. Is it possible? (If not, please treat this as a feature request).

Can't use moreWordSeparators attribute in syntax scheme

Steve_OH — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:09:35 -0500

I've been trying to create a new SyntaxEdit syntax scheme. I'm using the demo XML syntax scheme as a starting point. If I add a moreWordSeparators attribute to the "Main" scheme (at line 92):

moreWordSeparators='x'

I get a range-check error when I try to save the scheme (Error ERangeError on loading syntax scheme contents).

-Steve

LMD Browse Path

CM2 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:19:48 -0500

Delphi 2007 w/update
LMD 7.13.00

I am working on a panel component which inherits from TLMDSimplePanel, for an application I am developing. I use ModelMaker 6 to aid with class design and development.

For my installed LMD components, the Ctrl-click method that brings up the pointed-at class source (i.e. "code browsing") does not work.
I have verified the location of LMDSimplePanel.pas is:
C:\Program Files\Borland\ThirdParty\LMD2004\lib\source

There appear to be no other copies of it on this machine, and I have verified this via a fully-up-to-date-index Copernic Desktop search.

The components seem to otherwise work fine, and everything compiles OK.

The following path is in my Delphi Browsing Path:
$(ProgramFiles)\Borland\ThirdParty\LMD2004\lib\source

..and I don't see any other LMD-related paths there.

Code Browsing works fine on my other installed component sets, and (of course) on all Delphi's built-in VCL components.

Any idea how to get the Code Browsing functionality working with my installed LMD components?

Bug in LMDFileCreate (LMDFiles.pas) when getting SVN-Version

BernhardGeyer — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:31:20 -0500

Following lines must be delete:

<<<<<<< .mine
{$IFDEF D+}
{$R+}
{$ENDIF D+}
0, nil, CREATE_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0));
=======
>>>>>>> .r8939

AnyLogger

philgerm — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:36:38 -0500

I have not found in Demo Package the application AnyLogger.exe ?

TElHeader and use of Lookup-Functionality

BernhardGeyer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:24:15 -0500

I want to use Lookup-Functionality in TElTreeStringGrid /TElHeader.
I also set LookupStyle to csDropDownList.

When the style is set to this value, I would expect that Lookup is down when select a value in combobox.
But I have to do a extra keyboard-click (e.g. ) to get lookup finished and combobox hidden.

I've made following changes in procedure TCustomElHeader.EditChange:

if FLookup.Style = csDropDownList then
FLookup.Visible := False;

So Lookup is finished when item in combobox is selected.
I think this is the move expected behaviour in this combobox-Style.

ANN: LMD 2012.2 Releases available

Rafael Maricca (LMD) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:59 -0500

New LMD 2012.2 releases are available for all customers with valid LMD 2012 license.

Latest changes can be reviewed at:
LMD 2012 What is New Page.

Please report any bugs/problems in our BTS (bts.lmd.de) in the LMD 2012 project.