Integrate 4D Components Directly from GitHub
Many 4D developers leverage the power of third-party components found on GitHub, particularly those listed in the 4d-component topic. 4D 20 R6 introdu...
July 22, 2024
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Component
Using Classes Across Components
Component developers frequently require the utilization of a class from another existing component. With 4D 20 R6, when a component has a declared na...
July 17, 2024
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Simplifying Component Management in 4D
In the context of 4D development, managing components typically involves a substantial amount of work. However, introducing the Component Manager feat...
June 12, 2024
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Create a standalone application with the Build4D component
A new build4D component has been available on GitHub for a few months. It empowers you to effortlessly create a compiled project or a component. Thing...
July 13, 2023
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Build your Compiled Structure or Component with Build4D
With the introduction of the project mode, it's pretty easy to manipulate the components of your projects. In the last few feature releases, we have ...
December 13, 2022
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Visualise your Classes Component in the Method Explorer
From the 4D v19 R5, components can publish their classes. This feature came with tips and code completion support to smooth your code writing. To mak...
October 14, 2022
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Access your component classes from your host project
Components can now publish classes! And even better, if your application is still in binary mode, you can now benefit from classes and object-oriented...
April 25, 2022
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Project Databases: Build your own documentation for components
In a previous blog post, we showed you that documentation for methods has returned in the Explorer. Want to take things even further and use them as d...
June 15, 2020
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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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Project databases and components
Since the delivery of 4D v18, a series of blog posts on how to convert and develop with project databases have been published. What about components? ...
December 11, 2019
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