Author: Intissar Elmezroui

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• Product Marketing Manager • Intissar joined 4D in 2017 as a Product Marketing Manager. She works closely with the product, marketing, engineering, and technical support teams to highlight the ‘why’, the ‘how’, and the ‘what’ of new and updated features to different audiences. This close proximity allows her to craft messaging frameworks and write in-depth content and code samples for the 4D blog and website. After graduating with an engineer's degree in Computer Science from VINCI university, Intissar worked in several startups as a software engineer. Her hands-on experience includes software specification, design, and development, user training and support, and team management.
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4D v18 R2 Beta starts today

We’re pleased to announce the launch of beta testing for 4D v18 R2! So what new features does this R-release have to offer?

 

  • As part of the ongoing development for project databases, the Form Editor‘s UX has been greatly enhanced to instantly let you know if views are used. Plus, many additional actions have been added to simplify form design.
  • You asked for a way to prevent an application’s interface from being obscured by the macOS dock/menu or the Windows taskbar, and 4D delivers! Now, you have control of your work area.
  • For the first part of feature to receive emails, a new command and several methods are at your disposal to locally download emails and remove them from your email server. 
  • 4D Write Pro? Managing formulas inside your documents and the ability to delete pictures in a snap are the order of the day. 
  • What about your 4D View Pro documents? There’s now a whole set of commands to help you… from adding and removing rows and columns, to defining their size, visibility, and header labels.

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4D v18 is here

Our most spectacular major release yet is now available! 4D v18 is bursting with advanced functionalities, upgrades, and enhancements.

This cutting-edge release opens a lot of possibilities for your 4D-based applications. Though by no means exhaustive, here’s a list of features we’ve got in store for you:

  • Project database for version control: A solution for collaborative programming, enabling you to store your code in plain text files within a source control system (e.g., Github, Perforce, etc.).
  • Encryption: Built-in data encryption tools on a per-table basis. Whether via the UI or programming, your application’s protection is at its finest.
  • 4D for iOS: A product fully integrated into 4D to easily extend your business applications to mobile.
  • ORDA: Optimized performance, extra commands, and remote datastore.
  • The 4D language: Staying compatible with the classic language, the 4D language is making great strides towards becoming object-oriented with member methods to access files (or folders, zip archives, or emails), the ability to build your own member functions and use the new formula object, enhanced debugging features, etc.
  • 4D Write Pro: Style sheets, a feature-rich toolbar, more table-related features, and the list goes on.
  • 4D View Pro: A powerful ribbon toolbar, .xlsx import/export, more commands to handle your documents by programming, and much more.

This list is far from exhaustive, see all the blog posts for 4D v18!

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4D v18 beta starts today

Beta testing for 4D v18, our most spectacular release yet, is starting today! And we couldn’t be more thrilled to share all the novelties we’ve prepared for you. More than +90 advances, including major enhancements to existing features, as well as new ones that were designed to ease your development journey and take your applications to new heights. And in case you want to have an overall idea on this release full potential, we’ve put together this extensive library of examples (HDIs).

Buckle up and let’s discover some of what 4D v18 Beta has to offer:

 

  • Project database – Version control: a solution for collaborative programming. Enabling you to store your code in a source control system (e.g., Github, Perforce, etc.) in plain text files.
  • Built-in encryption: protection at its finest with built-in data encryption on a per-table basis.
  • 4D for iOS: a product fully integrated into 4D to extend your business applications to mobile with ease.
  • ORDA: enhanced commands, enhanced performance … and then there is remote datastore.
  • 4D language: extra 4D commands to enlarge your programming capabilities.
  • 4D Write Pro: Style Sheets. Tables. Toolbar. Word Export. And much more.
  • 4D View Pro: Ribbon Toolbar. Excel import/export. And the list goes on.
  • And much more (see below).

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4D v17 R6 is here

4D v17 R6, the latest R-release of one of 4D’s most groundbreaking major releases, is now available!

Here’s a sneak peek of what this R-release has to offer:

  • Increased interactivity with your 4D for iOS apps thanks to the ability to create, edit and delete your app content using parameters.
  • Advanced debugging capabilities at your disposal, such as the ability to retrieve the current execution call chain and a powerful new tool to analyze debug logs.
  • Even more ORDA methods to build more sophisticated search criteria and optimize your coding.
  • New functionalities have been added to the ever-growing list of 4D View Pro features: from customizing styles, to using collections to read and write values and formulas.

This list is far from exhaustive, see all the blog posts for 4D v17 R6!

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