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An ORDA Cheat Sheet

Blog post by guest author Cannon Smith, a 4D developer from southern Alberta, Canada:  The introduction of collections and entities has dramatica...

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...

CSS color strings for better readability

Improved and simplified 4D commands just keep coming. Now you can set colors in your form objects using CSS strings instead of numeric values. Previou...

Retrieve the current execution call chain

When programming an application, you may need to know where you are in your code, especially when one method calls other methods, which may then call ...

AJUI_Tip: A tooltip engine for 4D

Have you ever been flooded by confirmation dialogs, alert boxes, and contextual help windows that make it nearly impossible to locate the form window ...

4D Write Pro: a new way to set TABS!

We're thrilled to announce an exciting enhancement in 4D Write Pro! In addition to the features we've rolled out so far, 4D v17 R5 also includes a new...

Object notation to handle files and folders

4D already provides commands to handle files and folders, but what about new commands that take advantage of the power of object notation? Objects ha...

Convert an existing database into a Project

As of 4D v17 R5, you can create a database project. One of the greatest benefits of projects is how easy it makes collaborative work for distributed t...

4D v17 R5 Beta starts today

We're pleased to announce the launch of beta testing for 4D v17 R5. 4D v17 R5 is one of the most feature-rich R-releases ever delivered, and we could...

Formula: More power behind simplicity

The Formula command is available since 4D v17 R3. So far you might have thought of assigning a formula as a method to an object or building smart obje...