If you recently watched our webinar on AI coding with 4D 21, you saw how we built a complete travel agency application (database structure, data, forms, and an AI-powered feature) built almost entirely through natural language prompts. In this post, we'll walk you through the setup and show you how to bring that same workflow to your own projects. ...
Starting 4D 21 R2, a new change has been added to bullet and numbered lists in 4D Write Pro: if a list is created using a standard action, it will be automatically indented by a little margin. This means, the user will no longer have to adjust the margin separately. In this blog post, we will briefly go over lists in 4D Write Pro, explain the new feature related to lists and its advantages, and finish off with a concrete example. ...
Training has always been part of 4D’s identity. Sharing knowledge, promoting best practices, and supporting developers in building their skills has always been a top priority. In recent years, however, things have changed. The rise of remote work and distributed teams has challenged traditional in-person training formats. At the same time, the rapid pace of new features in the 4D platform, along with a new release cycle, requires constant updates, rewrites, and improvements to training content. Learn 4D was created in response to this shift. ...
Large reports, contracts, or documentation files often contain more information than can be quickly processed. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply upload a document PDF from your 4D application and let AI help you summarize it, extract key data, or answer questions about its content? Thanks to the new OpenAI.files class, this workflow is now very simple. You can seamlessly upload files and use AI to interact with their content in many ways. ...
With 4D 21 R2, Fluent UI remains in Developer Preview, but reaches a new milestone with a full native integration directly into 4D. While still in preview, it is now easier to enable, configure, and deploy, and no longer relies on external dependencies. Your applications instantly adopt a modern interface consistent with Windows 11, without any additional setup for your users. And for you as a developer, the improvement is even more significant. Fluent UI becomes easier to activate, more flexible to configure, and simpler to deploy. You gain new tools and options that fit naturally into your workflow while offering a smooth and controlled transition to the new interface. ...
When working on a large 4D application, it is common to split functionality across a host project and several components. This modular architecture keeps things clean, easy to organize, and maintainable, but it can also create a challenge: figuring out where a method is used. Since 4D 21, a major improvement has made this workflow even smoother: you can now edit a component’s source code directly from the host project, without switching contexts. And with 4D 21 R2, the Find in Design dialog has been enhanced to search not only within the host project, but also across all accessible components created in project mode with their source code available. ...
4D 21 R2 introduces an updated version of 4D View Pro based on SpreadJS v18.2, along with a Ribbon fully compatible with this release. Since 4D View Pro is built on top of SpreadJS, upgrading the underlying engine immediately brings performance improvements and new capabilities. Some of these enhancements are directly available in 4D, others can be accessed through the View Pro designer, and a few require custom JavaScript code. In this article, we highlight the most important changes introduced by SpreadJS v18.2, including features that are not yet directly exposed as 4D functions. ...
When working on a project with multiple components, quickly identifying the one you need can save valuable time. The simplest and most effective way to make your components stand out in the Project Dependencies is to give each one a custom icon. 4D 21 R2 lets you visually distinguish your components at a glance, simply by placing a logo.png or logo.svg file in its Resources folder. ...
4D Qodly Pro offers all the tools you need to design, build and run web forms for your 4D application and is fully integrated to 4D. Since 4D 21 R2, you can now create your Qodly pages from the 4D explorer as you are used to for 4D forms. Moreover, you can also open Qodly pages from the 4D explorer also! This makes 4D Qodly Pro easier to pick up. ...
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