'TSCLED is a multiline dot matrix LED display emulator that uses a monochrome offscreen bitmap to draw on. Text can be displayed using any installed font and it has a dozen or so built in animation sequences and custom draw functionality.'+PAR+
'TSCLED is based on the component TDynaLED 1.0 by Samson Fu. You can download his component from http://www.torry.net/leds.htm.'+PAR+
'TSCLED displays a monochrome bitmap (accessible through BITMAP property) with adjustable pixel size and inter pixel spacing.'+
' Although this BITMAP is exposed, you need not use it directly when simply displaying text, which you do by assigning strings to either the CAPTION or LINES properties.'+PAR+
'Most of the features are quite straightforward, with a couple of exceptions:'+PAR+
'* For LEDSTYLE, sclsSQUARE and sclsROUND yield identical looking displays unless LEDSIZE is larger than 2 pixels.'+PAR+
'* TSCLED has both a LINES and a CAPTION property. If LINES is empty, CAPTION is used,otherwise LINES is used. It is a little easier using LINES at design time when entering multi-line text.'+PAR+
'* The AUTOSIZE property may not be what you expect. If it is set to true, any change in LEDSIZE, LEDDISTANCE or LEDCOUNTX or LEDCOUNTY will change the component size, in other words, component'+
' WIDTH and HEIGHT become derived properties. Otherwise, LEDCOUNTX and LEDCOUNTY are derived from the other properties. Mainly a design time convenience.'+PAR+
'* CLIPMODE can either be set to sccmTEXT or sccmDISPLAY. If set to sccmTEXT, the monochrome BITMAP will be the minimum size to accomodate the text drawn on it. '+
'Otherwise, the BITMAP will be the same size as display (ie LEDCOUNTX by LEDCOUNTY pixels). To better visualize this, enable ONAFTERDRAW on the this demo page, which will draw a frame around the BITMAP. '+
'As a rule of thumb, use sccmTEXT unless you are doing custom drawing.'+PAR+
'* ALIGNMENTH doesn not use Delphi''s TALIGNMENT values but a custom enumerated type. This is in anticipation of a later feature.'
