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Vanessa Talbot

Customize App Appearance with New Windows Types

With 4D 20 R5, unlocking new possibilities in application customization, two additional window types now offer flexible modal or non-modal windows without title bars. This means complete freedom to tailor your application’s appearance to your exact specifications. Imagine redesigning the title bar to match your desired aesthetics, integrating features like a customized search box or other elements seamlessly.

But that’s not all! We’ve also introduced several new commands designed to streamline your development process:

  • Reduce a window in the title bar on Windows or the dock on macOS,
  • Know if the window is reduced in the title bar on Windows or the dock on macOS,
  • Know if the window if the window is maximized.

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Vanessa Talbot
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Evolution of Form Objects

To allow you to make the most beautiful interfaces, we continue to improve the form objects. Since 4D v19 R6, you can define a rounded border for static text and input text form objects.

With 4D v20, new possibilities are available.

  • For buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes, we have added new settings for the text and the icon.
  • For radio buttons and checkboxes, the number of states for the icon has been improved to allow a better rendering for the end user.

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Vanessa Talbot
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Say Hello to Rounded Corners

The current trend is for light, clean, soft colors and rounded corners. 

For you to embellish your applications and follow the latest trends, we have added the possibility to round the corners of static texts and input texts.

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Roland Lannuzel
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Form and subform communication made easy!

Starting with 4D v19 R5, the ability to associate a variable with a subform has enriched the possibilities of interfaces and communication between forms and subforms. The means of communication are now simplified by two new commands: Say hello to OBJECT Get subform container value and OBJECT SET SUBFORM CONTAINER VALUE.

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Vanessa Talbot
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New Windows system rendering engine for Web Areas

Web areas can display various types of web content within your forms: HTML pages with static or dynamic contents, files, pictures,… You can choose between two rendering engines for the web area, depending on the specifics of your application:

  • the embedded rendering engine
  • the system rendering engine

 

The advantage of the embedded system is the cross-platform portability. No need to adapt to some specifics of a platform. Moreover, it allows you to access 4D methods. 

The advantage of the system browser is the security updates that are available right away. There’s no need to wait for the next version of 4D. We recommend it for accessing the public Internet site. 

Windows has announced that “Internet Explorer 11 is retiring on June 15, 2022“. So since 4D v19 R5, if you use the system rendering engine, 4D uses Microsoft Edge WebView2. This change allows you to benefit from a modern browser with the latest features and security updates. For example, Microsoft Edge can be used to display PDFs.

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Fabrice Mainguené
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Webcam support in Web Areas

With COVID-19, the remote office has become a new standard, and video conferencing is becoming commonplace for professionals. As a result, more and more professionals have started weaving video conferencing features into their applications. To allow you to display video conferencing from different sources like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and others, we now support audio and video streams in web areas!

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Vanessa Talbot
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CSS Media query for a dark or light UI

Dark mode has been gaining a lot of ground recently. That’s why we’ve added support for it in 4D v19, and mentioned a few ways you can adjust it to your needs in the related announcement.

In this blog post, we’ll focus on CSS and explain in detail how to set CSS styles for light and dark modes using CSS media queries.

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