Build a custom remote connection dialog
Do you need to build a customized 4D connection dialog? Interested in connecting your client application to different servers? These are two scenarios...
November 20, 2019
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Damien Fuzeau
Project databases: Managing Users and Groups
Project databases, available in beta in the latest 4D v 17 R-Releases, are now available for production in 4D v18! Among the many changes in 4D v18 is...
November 5, 2019
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Deployment made easy with 4D v18
4D v18 introduces a new architecture for files and folders to keep your deployed macOS package and Windows application folders intact. In a nutshell, ...
October 30, 2019
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Headless 4D applications
As a 4D developer, you may have already encountered a need to develop applications without a graphical user interface (GUI), otherwise known as a head...
October 28, 2019
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A new tool at your fingertips to analyze debug logs
With 4D v17 R5, we've improved the debug logs by adding methods and allowing each process to be traced independently. With this R-release, we've gone ...
July 31, 2019
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Retrieve the current execution call chain
When programming an application, you may need to know where you are in your code, especially when one method calls other methods, which may then call ...
July 23, 2019
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Use ORDA to boost performance in Client/Server mode
Using ORDA to access large tables (especially those with relations) in Client/Server mode has been greatly enhanced. With 4D v17 R5, you’ll see 2-3xs ...
June 5, 2019
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Better debug logs with these improvements
As a 4D developer, you may have already activated the debug log to troubleshoot problems. 4D v17 R5 introduces several improvements to help you analyz...
June 4, 2019
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Who’s who? A new way to identify users
As a 4D developer you often need to manage end users with your own directory system. For internal users, you might create a few profiles with differen...
May 15, 2019
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