Project databases: Improved views in the form editor
The Form Editor allows you to create, modify, and customize your forms. Several tools are available to make your work easier, one of which is the View...
February 6, 2020
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Project databases: New possibilities with the Form Editor
With the introduction of project databases, we've also modified the interface of some 4D dialogs. In this blog post, we'll present some of the changes...
January 13, 2020
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On resize… On resize… On resize…
Wondering how to create a nice and dynamic user interface? Typically when a form is resized, the form objects whose horizontal sizing or vertical sizi...
November 29, 2019
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Expanding the abilities of the Form event command
As you may already know, the Form event command identifies the type of form event that has just occurred. It's typically used within a form or object ...
November 15, 2019
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Project databases: beautify your forms with style sheets
Classic 4D binary structures let you define style sheets to specify the font, font size, and text style to use in your forms for both the macOS and Wi...
November 8, 2019
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Easily customize the entry order of your dynamic forms
The power of dynamic forms was introduced with 4D v16 R6, allowing you to build your forms on the fly by building them in an object or loading them fr...
August 26, 2019
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Play videos with 4D
We're in the visual and interactive content era. It's becoming increasingly more and more prominent. Take a look at digital community statistics and y...
January 2, 2018
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Use DIALOG instead of MODIFY SELECTION
There is an old saying: "Old is gold" meaning that new ways are not as good as the old ones. But the new way to say is "Old is gold but new is platinu...
November 15, 2017
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Finely control your tips in 4D
4D v16 R4 is providing you with more flexibility regarding tips management. Beyond the possibility to enable or disable all tips at once using databas...
July 27, 2017
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Define the tab order by programming
Here are 2 very common developer needs: 1. Depending on the user criteria, you want to rearrange the objects in the form. – 2. Depending on the select...
July 24, 2017
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