Author: Vanessa Talbot

Vanessa Talbot
• Product Owner •Vanessa Talbot joined 4D Program team in June, 2014. As a Product Owner, she is in charge of writing the user stories then translating it to functional specifications. Her role is also to make sure that the feature implementation delivered is meeting the customer need.Since her arrival, she has worked to define key features in 4D. She has worked on most of preemptive multi-threading new features and also on a very complex subject: the new architecture for engined application. Vanessa has a degree from Telecom Saint-Etienne. She began her career at the Criminal Research Institute as a developer for the audiovisual department. She has also worked in media and medical fields as expert in technical support, production as well as documenting new features.
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Test your Windows SDI Application

It’s been a long time since you could provide your customers with merged applications in SDI mode.

We know that testing an SDI application can be challenging, so with 4D v19 R8, you can view the result of your application without the need to build your standalone or client application.

Keep reading for all the details.

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4D for Mobile: What’s New in 4D v19 R8

With every release, the list of 4D for iOS and 4D for Android features is growing bigger. And this feature release is no exception. Without further ado, let’s see what 4D v19 R8 has in store for you:

WHAT’S IN IT?

For 4D for Android (already available in 4D for iOS):

  • Create a choice list from a table field or a JSON file.
  • Use input control with code to retrieve, for example, GPS coordinates or phone numbers in the Contact application.
  • Add a section in list form to group data by the company, for example.
  • Use a custom login form.
  • Improvement of the bottom navigation bar to display more than four tables and follow the Android guideline.

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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:

 

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.

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A coat of paint on the structure editor

The structure editor is a crucial element of your project. First of all, it allows you to create your structure. But above all, it will enable you to visualize your tables, fields, and relations during your developments, which is always helpful for manipulating data.

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Say Hello to Rounded Corners

The current trend is for light, clean, soft colors and rounded corners. 

For you to embellish your applications and follow the latest trends, we have added the possibility to round the corners of static texts and input texts.

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4D for Mobile: What’s New in 4D v19 R7

With every release, the list of 4D for iOS and 4D for Android features is growing bigger. And this feature release is no exception. Without further ado, let’s see what 4D v19 R7 has in store for you:

WHAT’S IN IT?

  • Sort the content of a list form for Android (already available in 4D for iOS)
  • Update to Material Design 3 (for Android only)

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Use 4D Write Pro to Create & Print a Batch of Documents

Whatever your business, you must create listings, inventories, tracking sheets, product sheets, invoices, and many other documents. These documents are usually printed or saved in PDF for archiving.

4D Write Pro is the ideal tool to create all your documents. Here is a list of several features available in 4D Write Pro that can help you make beautiful documents for printing:

 

Using these different features, here are some examples of documents produced.

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Support of larger integers than integer32

While Reals are known to be unprecise, they are 100% accurate even for very large numbers, as long as they do not use a decimal point (=integers). 

Numbers up to 53 bit, or more exactly,  [-(2^53)+1, (2^53)-1], that is a range from −9,007,199,254,740,992 to 9,007,199,254,740,992, will be exactly represented.

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