Form and subform communication made easy!
Starting with 4D v19 R5, the ability to associate a variable with a subform has enriched the possibilities of interfaces and communication between for...
April 28, 2022
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User Interface / GUI
Design maintainable desktop interfaces with forms, dynamic data binding, embedded web areas, improved subform behavior, window customization, and structured UI patterns that keep logic centralized.
New Windows system rendering engine for Web Areas
Web areas can display various types of web content within your forms: HTML pages with static or dynamic contents, files, pictures,... You can choose b...
April 27, 2022
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High DPI on Windows: Support for high resolution screens
At 4D, we take customer requests very seriously! In previous meetings, customers showed great interest in supporting high-resolution displays, such a...
January 12, 2022
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New text rendering in forms on Windows with DirectWrite
DirectWrite is the modern text rendering API on Windows. It improves text readability thanks to its subpixel quality, and is fully compatible with the...
November 25, 2021
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Webcam support in Web Areas
With COVID-19, the remote office has become a new standard, and video conferencing is becoming commonplace for professionals. As a result, more and mo...
October 5, 2021
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CSS Media query for a dark or light UI
Dark mode has been gaining a lot of ground recently. That's why we've added support for it in 4D v19, and mentioned a few ways you can adjust it to yo...
May 19, 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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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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6 practical examples on how to use macros
4D 18 R5 introduced form macros. They can be incredibly useful, for example, by providing an ideal way to save time on repetitive tasks. In this blog ...
November 20, 2020
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