Build your Compiled Structure or Component with Build4D
With the introduction of the project mode, it’s pretty easy to manipulate the components of your projects.
In the last few feature releases, we have added several functionalities that allow you to create your own build chain adapted to your team, your working methods, and your needs.
For example:
- Launch a compilation by programming,
- Zip/unzip files and folders with these commands,
- Easily Manage your Application’s Information,
- Headless 4D applications to integrate it into a build tool.
To help you create your own build chain or integrate 4D into a continuous integration tool, we have developed a component named Build4D, available on GitHub with the sources.
For this first step, Build4D allows you to create a compiled structure and a component. We will continue to enrich it to enable you to manage a single-user application, client application, or server application.
Say Hello to an Enhanced Content Translation
We have some thrilling news to announce, and the title may have already given a hint!
Yes, the 4D blog content translation just got an upgrade 🥳
Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – November 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 17 tips:
Haunting Features Await You 🦇
From under the full moon, among the shadows of the dark forest, 4D v19 R6 was released, bursting with many features!
It’s not a bunch of hocus pocus; these are the features you requested:
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.
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 :
- You are now totally free to create your own designs
- The user experience remains seamless embedded in your native app
- Get updated data in real-time
- 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:
4D Write Pro – Document Modification Detection
When a 4D Write Pro document is in edit mode, it’s often helpful to know if it has actually been modified by the end user. Based on this information, actions or interfaces can be adjusted to be more user-friendly.
Starting with 4D v19 R7, this is now easier than ever.
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.
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.
4D View Pro: New in 4D v19 R7
With every release, the 4D View Pro features list is growing. And this feature release is no exception:4D v19 R7 comes with a new version of SpreadJS, the v15.2, and a Ribbon update that is compatible with it.
Let’s discover the new features offered by this new version.
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