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Vanessa Talbot
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Say Hello to Rounded Corners

The current trend is for light, clean, soft colors and rounded corners. 

For you to embellish your applications and follow the latest trends, we have added the possibility to round the corners of static texts and input texts.

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Nicolas Brachfogel
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Latest Improvements of the HTTP Client

With 4D v19R6, we brought you a new way to perform HTTP requests: HTTP classes. At that time, some of the HTTP classes functionalities were not final, as we wanted to adapt them to the new syntax. It is now done! In v19R7, compressed responses, chunked responses, and redirections functionalities are now complete.

As a bonus, we also added a new way to log HTTP requests. And as it’s helpful to everyone, this new logging is available to the new HTTP classes as well as for the legacy syntax.

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David Azancot
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4D for Mobile : Get Mobile Users’ Cookies

As you probably know, scalable sessions have been available since 4D v18 R6. They’re a web session type that is able to handle several processes in preemptive mode. This means they can handle several user-agent requests simultaneously and share data between these processes.

Well, 4D v19 R7 greatly enhances this feature and makes it available to 4D for Mobile.

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David Azancot
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4D for Mobile : Display Web Pages in your Mobile Apps

You can already compose views based on templates; dozens of them are at your disposal to beautify your mobile apps. 4D v19 R7 is spicing up things even more by enabling you to display a web page served by 4D using a new preset action: Open URL.

This means four things :

  1. You are now totally free to create your own designs
  2. The user experience remains seamless embedded in your native app
  3. Get updated data in real-time
  4. You can keep user data and offer an optimized user experience using sessions.

You only have to create a web page optimized for mobile devices.

Let’s see how to use it with a simple example:

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Roland Lannuzel
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LIST BOXES – Say Goodbye to Alt Key!

The drag and drop action is a standard action in computer interfaces. In the case of list boxes, pressing the “Alt” key is necessary to move several items simultaneously. Or rather “was” because, starting with 4D v19 R7, this is no longer a requirement at all!

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Fabrice Mainguené
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4D View Pro: New Commands to Manage Rows & columns

Spreadsheets are great versatile tools. From dashboards to input/output UI, spreadsheets provided by 4D View Pro can quickly solve a lot of situations encountered by your end-users.

We previously explained using the 4D View Pro table feature to display and modify data collections. Using 4D View Pro tables, you may need to add or remove columns later on, depending on end-users needs. To do so, from 4D v19 R7, 4D View Pro has several new commands to manage your table columns and rows. Let’s see how it works.

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Roland Lannuzel
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4D Write Pro: User-friendly Display of Formulas

Formulas are an integral part of 4D Write Pro documents. They allow the integration of a lot of information coming from the database. Creating documents and templates that include formulas, combined to physical constraints (number of pages, paper size), can lead to non-wysiwyg designs. A new mode of displaying formulas is now available to facilitate this design.

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