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4D 20 R5 Beta Starts Today

Beta testing for 4D 20 R5 is starting today, and we’re thrilled to unveil a truly majestic feature release with a plethora of functionalities designed to empower your development experience!

Let’s explore all the exciting features this release has in store for you:

 

  • In 4D Write Pro, you can now wrap text around pictures and text boxes, tables are no longer restricted to 1000 lines, and effortlessly define both width and height simultaneously with a new attribute.
  • For programmers, enjoy new features like try-catch blocks for precise error handling, a 4D Singleton, to answer a highly voted feature request, and shared classes for easier shared object management, among other enhancements.
  • Visual structure editor information is now stored separately from table definition information to reduce conflicts in the catalog file.
  • ORDA comes with improved data restriction on entity selections for precise data retrieval and enhanced security.
  • The Visual Studio Code extension offers Workspace Syntax Checking, automatic 4D tool downloads, and GitHub Codespaces integration.
  • And that’s not all — There are over 20 new features to explore! 

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4D Write Pro: Electronic Invoice Generation!

4D v20 R4 introduces an exciting feature in 4D Write Pro—now, it empowers you to generate electronic invoices. But what exactly do we mean by e-invoices?

An electronic invoice (or e-invoice) is generated, transmitted, received, and stored electronically, enabling more efficient and environmentally friendly management of business transactions.

While they offer many advantages, they also come with their own specific constraints, particularly in terms of the complexity of the generation process. However, with 4D Write Pro, we’ve come to realize that managing this complexity is much more manageable than initially perceived!

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4D Write Pro: Assign Names to Formulas

In 4D Write Pro documents, formulas are crucial and contribute significantly to their functionality. Previously, these formulas could be represented as values, expressions, or symbols.

However, to further enhance the user experience and improve readability, an exciting new feature with 4D v20 R3 has been introduced: the ability to assign names to formulas. This latest enhancement allows users to quickly identify and comprehend the purpose of each formula within the document.

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Sync Several Collections with this new Function

4D offers powerful features to work with object collections. For example, you can create a collection of cities with their associated countries and continents. Manipulating these collections with built-in functions like sort, order, and filter becomes a breeze.

4D v20 R3 introduces the new multiSort() function to simplify this process. With this function, you can now easily sort and synchronize multiple collections.

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4D v20 LTS is Here

4D v20 LTS, the most feature-rich version of 4D to date, has been released!

Over the past few years, we’ve taken 4D forward at an unprecedented pace. We introduced cutting-edge concepts such as Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and classes, refined the 4D language to match the familiarity and intuitiveness of popular languages such as JavaScript & TypeScript, and introduced ORDA, an innovative way to access data, among other advancements.

Download 4D v20 LTS Now 

Now, with 4D v20, witness the integration of Visual Studio Code editor, harness the exceptional capabilities of 4D Write Pro for template-based document generation, and empower yourself with features to build modern applications’ UIs.

And that’s not all! Check out the highlights below:

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Evolution of Form Objects

To allow you to make the most beautiful interfaces, we continue to improve the form objects. Since 4D v19 R6, you can define a rounded border for static text and input text form objects.

With 4D v20, new possibilities are available.

  • For buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes, we have added new settings for the text and the icon.
  • For radio buttons and checkboxes, the number of states for the icon has been improved to allow a better rendering for the end user.

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Meet the Updated Print form & FORM LOAD Commands

4D v16 R5 brought a significant improvement to the DIALOG command. An improvement that lays in the possibility of passing a new parameter “formData” of type object. It was great to hear that this new addition has been well received by 4D developers.

With 4D v20, two other commands are upgraded, Print form and FORM LOAD! The benefit will be just as great. The object’s content passed in the parameter will be directly exploitable in the printed forms or forms loaded in memory.

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