Code Editor: Multiple themes, your choice!
The code editor’s feature set grows with every release, and 4Dv19 is no exception. Every developer has their own special - and sometimes peculiar - t...
April 27, 2021
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List Boxes: Time Columns and Footer Calculation!
List boxes are great, powerful tools to display data in the interface. They can display fields from records, items from arrays, and since recently, en...
April 23, 2021
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Use collections and lists within forms objects
Collections are increasingly used in 4D programming. Starting with 4D v19, you can use them to define the content of some interface objects, including...
April 23, 2021
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ORDA: Easy looping with a new 4D tag
You have probably already used a For each...End for each loop to work with ORDA entity selections or with collections. Its use is simple and straight ...
April 22, 2021
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More enhancements to the 4D debugger!
4D v18 R6 comes with new features in the code editor to make things easier for you when writing code. The same goes for the debugger. We know debuggi...
January 27, 2021
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4D Language – String comparison improvements
The 4D language offers 20+ commands to handle strings. And with 4D v18 R6, 4D introduces a new command: Compare strings. And yet another command has b...
January 25, 2021
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Code editor: Write more code in less time!
With 4D 18 R4, we announced the availability of the suggested functions for classes (4D and data model). With 4D v18 R6, we've got more great news to ...
January 22, 2021
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List boxes: Manage clicks in edited cells
As a developer, you're used to handling events inside form objects. The most common is the on clicked form event which can be used in most objects, in...
January 22, 2021
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Sharing leads to performance
Following this blog post about the new concept of shareable entity selections and the subsequent discussions on the forum, we'll now take the time to ...
December 17, 2020
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Move to shareable entity selections smoothly
In this blog post, you discovered the power that shareable entity selections can offer. 4D focuses on data sharing because, in the long run, it leads ...
December 17, 2020
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