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Create a 4D View Pro document offscreen

Do you need to create a 4D View Pro document using code, without any user interface? It's possible! Because 4D View Pro documents are objects, it's ve...

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Write generic code with ORDA

ORDA was one of the major announcements of 4D Summit 2018, opening a world of new possibilities in 4D. To learn more about ORDA and its benefits, chec...

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Take your imagination to the limit with 4D v17 and 4D Write Pro – Caroline from the 4D Summit 2018

As 4D v17 approaches, it’s worth taking a moment to pause and think of all the possibilities 4D Write Pro has to offer. For those who have extensive 4...

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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...

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Display an entity selection in a list box

4D v17 introduces a new concept: ORDA. If you're not familiar with ORDA yet, we've created a series of blog posts to explain how to use and take advan...

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How to easily handle text insertion in 4D Write Pro

4D Write Pro packs in a lot of commands and functions allowing you to create and handle complex documents by programming, documents which include pict...

Loops, loops and … more loops!

Like many other programming languages, 4D provides the ability to iterate over numbers with a For(…) / End for statement, or over a condition thanks t...

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How to create a dynamic form from a table in 3 steps!

4D v17 includes dynamic forms, initially introduced in 4D v16 R6, a powerful and flexible way to dynamically build forms fully adapted to your end use...

Going back and forth between current selections to ORDA

ORDA is a major innovation of 4D v17, this is why we're dedicating an entire series of blog posts to ORDA. While ORDA has its own concepts that are ve...

Display a collection in a listbox

Recently, 4D introduced of a new type of variable: collections, as well as a large set of methods to manipulate them. With 4D v17, the possibilities o...