Build 64-bit Delphi applications to take advantage of the latest hardware
All LMD VCL 2011 packages will support XE2 almost instantly  after release for 32bit-platform. At the same time betas of LMD VCL 2012 packages will be available which include support for 64bit-platform as well. Subscription user and LMD 2012 customers can start immediately with porting their applications to 64bit.
Final versions of LMD VCL 2012 will be available about four weeks after XE2 release. All purchases after 01-Aug-2011 receive free upgrade to LMD 2012 release of their product. Bookmark the What’s New Page for LMD 2012 release. We will summarize there all features which can be expected for the next major release.

Modern Look and Feel with VCL Styles
RAD Studio XE2 will include its own skinning engine. The LMD Theme Engine was always designed to be used as optional theme engine, hence our controls are prepared to support a different skinning engine. Nevertheless support won’t be included in initial LMD 2012 release but  will be added during LMD 2012 life cycle.

Connect any visual element to any type of data using LiveBindings™
We are still evaluating this feature and it is possible, that certain controls in LMD VCL line receive LiveBindings support. New controls will most probably support this important built-in functionlity, though.

Create GPU-powered FireMonkey applications that will keep your customers engaged
FireMonkey is a completely new framework which allows to compile your applications to different targets (Windows, MacOS etc.). Like the VCL the LMD VCL product line is bound to Windows API heavily. Hence it is unlikely that there will be a complete port of LMD VCL product line to FireMonkey. However for new controls and packages or subsets of existing VCL packages FireMonkey support is definitely planned and on the RoadMap in the nearby future. Send us suggestions and requests for those controls, which you would like to see as FireMonkey version.

LMD VCL 2012 notes and upcoming products
Supporting XE2 requires internal changes in LMD VCL package and product structure. Nevertheless  LMD VCL 2012 will still support all Delphi/C++Builder releases from version 6 on. But keep in mind new LMD products (we’ll write about them in our next blog entry) will support higher RAD Studio releases only – allowing us to use modern features like Generics or built-in VCL functionality.
If you are still using a previous Delphi/C++Builder IDE: RAD Studio XE2 with its many new features might be a perfect opportunity to upgrade!

Until this date requests from both newsgroups and web forum will be handled. Please use the oppurtunity to take part in betatesting the new forum software (which is based on the quite popular Vanilla software) and feel free to report us any feature requests and thoughts.

The newsgroups at news.lmd.de will be set to ReadOnly Mode at a later time and available as Web Archive (like the previous newsgroups) on support page.

All orders and support issues during holidays will be handled as usual. In the first two weeks of 2010 there might be delays in support handling, because most members of support team will be in holidays.

LMD-Tools 10.06
LMD ElPack 8.06
LMD IDE-Tools 3.06

Review changes on history page.

This is mainly a release to work around a problem introduced with recent Delphi 2010 Updates in the shared runtime. The following line:

TLMDOnHeaderWrite = procedure(Sender : TObject; var Target : Text) of object;

causes now a TI894 internal error.

This method signature is used OnHeaderWrite events in TLMDApplication class and TLMDApplicationCtrl control. For Delphi 2010 and above this line is now changed to:

TLMDOnHeaderWrite=procedure(Sender : TObject;const Target: TStringList) of object;

This is a breaking change. If you used this event you need to change your code slightly (add your header lines now to Stringlist instead writing to a TEXT variable.
Please also note that this problem appeared for source code user in Delphi/C++ Builder with Update 2 or higher only. If you are not affected by this problem there is no need to update to .06 release.

[*] Memory leak in LMDVistaDialog.pas was fixed.
[+] Added OldFilter property for TLMDCustomFileDialog.FileTypes, you now be able to set old filters like this Text files (*.txt)|*.TXT
[*] Added default option to enable sizing in dealogs in OSes previous than Vista
[*] TLMDPngObject - fixed drawing on Vista glass

“Obviously, Delphi is Jedism. The uninformed say that “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster” , but in the hands of a master it is immensely powerful. Which of course makes C# Sith – the same power turned to the Dark Side ;) ” (c) HMcG

There is nothing to add – I totally agree with this definition :)

program HelloWorld;
begin
  writeln('Hello, World!');
end.