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Access your component classes from your host project

Components can now publish classes! And even better, if your application is still in binary mode, you can now benefit from classes and object-oriented...

Fabrice Mainguené
Fabrice Mainguené
April 25, 2022 1 min read

Class Code editor Component

Classes

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Need a magic wand? Here are computed class properties!

The apparition of classes in the 4D development environment has made programming more modern and easier to scale. Classes allow the definition of prop...

Roland Lannuzel
Roland Lannuzel
October 5, 2021 1 min read

Class Computed attribute

4D Tutorials

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How to create a simple “TimeStamp” class in 4D

by guest author Tiran Behrouz, 4D developer (Vancouver, Canada)  The introduction of ORDA in 4D v17 was a game-changer. Now with the introduction...

Tiran Behrouz
Tiran Behrouz
August 20, 2020 1 min read

Class Programming Tutorial

Classes

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Object-oriented programming in 4D: Manage class inheritance

In a previous blog post, we introduced a very important concept in object-oriented programming: Classes. Now we'll go through another core concept: In...

Vanessa Talbot
Vanessa Talbot
May 6, 2020 1 min read

Class Programming Project Project database

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Classes

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An intro to object-oriented programming in 4D: Classes

Many of you have have been asking to be able to define an object type ever since the Object type became available. Thanks to object notation, many of ...

Vanessa Talbot
Vanessa Talbot
May 4, 2020 1 min read

Class Programming Project Project database

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