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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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.
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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Help tips on list boxes!
Help tips or hints are very useful, as they simplify the user interface and help users understand objects that sometimes aren’t self-evident. 4D suppo...
October 25, 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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Discover all options to use Standard Actions
Some developers believe that automatic actions are for beginners. However they might have missed a lot of potential we added in the last years. Standa...
April 12, 2017
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Customize highlight color upon listbox row selection
A new step is reached to provide our developers with a fully customizable listbox object, entirely adaptable to user need. A new option is available i...
January 31, 2017
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Listbox – columns AUTO resizing !
4D v16 includes a new feature providing your end-user great freedom and flexibility at the interface level when using list boxes. The constraints defi...
November 18, 2016
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Execute action upon listbox column resizing
The event On Column Resize is now triggered "live" during the resizing of the list boxes as long as the user modifies the column widths (previously, i...
November 14, 2016
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New “On mouse up” event for picture object
In 4D v16, you now have a new “On Mouse Up” event for non-draggable picture object! This feature will provide you with an easy and notice way to draw...
October 20, 2016
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