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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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.
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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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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How to display a multilevel collection in different list boxes!
Starting with 4D v17, the content of a multilevel collection can easily be displayed in different list boxes. Meaning that you can bind several list b...
May 28, 2018
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