List boxes: Setup movable rows (or not!) by code
List boxes are powerful form objects. They're easily created and manipulated, and most importantly, they can handle any kind of data. Additionally, th...
August 12, 2020
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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.
Access form object values by programming
An increasing number of developers are using the Form command to link their form objects and many of you require easy programming access to the values...
July 23, 2020
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Use an offscreen web area
Do you need to load web pages, extract metadata, or generate pictures from the contents of pages on a headless server? If you answered "yes", then you...
June 9, 2020
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Define the font size for automatic font
In a previous R-release, we added two new automatic themes to define font and the font size, so there are three automatic themes at your disposal whic...
May 20, 2020
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ORDA – Better list box row selecting
You've probably used the LISTBOX SELECT ROW command many times, looping through each entity in order to select the rows for an entity selection. 4D v...
May 11, 2020
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News flash: 4D components available on GitHub!
In 2017, 4D initiated a new program to share the source code of 4D internal components to 4D Partners. Sharing the source code of 4D components lets ...
April 16, 2020
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A new tool to easily build Entity Selection list boxes
To display a list of records, an entity selection list box is the most suitable when using ORDA technology. 4D v18 R2 simplifies your life with a new ...
March 12, 2020
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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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Ease your developer’s life with list boxes
Our main objective is to make developers' lives easier, day after day, and list boxes are one 4D's most used and powerful form objects that serve this...
January 31, 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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