Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – February 2023 Edition

by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc

Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.

The 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly tech notes are actively published. If you missed the last tips on the KB, that’s fine; here is a compilation from the past few weeks.

This blog post covers 20 tips:

1. The three ways to create a new file on the disk
2. Utility method to return character length of 4D Write Pro document
3. 4D Write Pro – Deprecated Page Break Constant and Standard Action
4. Managing Modifications to 4D VP Tables
5. 4D Remote Web Server Settings
6. Table classes are created automatically when switching to project mode
7. Differences in break modes when creating file handles
8. How to close web area view in 4D for Mobile
9. Utility Method Utilizing Collection .some() Function
10. Replacing _o_OBJECT SET COLOR
11. Creating “threadedFibers.prm” file for more comprehensive dump files on Windows
12. Create a folder hierarchy with file and folder object instantiation
13. How to refresh entity after updating record in 4D for Mobile
14. Utility Method for Capitalizing First Character of Each Word of Text
15. Filtering Commands and Methods
16. Quickly finding obsolete commands
17. Utilizing the User Interrupt
18. Compilation Error: “Internal error when compiling with clang”
19. Utility method to check if a string starts with another string
20. Document Formats Supported by 4D Write Pro