Four different ways to use objects with 4D Write Pro!
Quite frankly, we love objects. 4D Write Pro uses objects as the input/output of commands and functions to manipulate documents, text, paragraphs, etc...
November 27, 2017
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Programming
Use DIALOG instead of MODIFY SELECTION
There is an old saying: "Old is gold" meaning that new ways are not as good as the old ones. But the new way to say is "Old is gold but new is platinu...
November 15, 2017
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Enhancement of Get process activity command
The Get process activity command, added with 4D v16 R4, makes it possible to retrieve a list of running processes and connected users. With 4D v16 R5 ...
November 6, 2017
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New command to get Web Server information
This feature is another way of providing you the ability to create your own server administration dialog. Following the ability to retrieve informatio...
November 3, 2017
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Working with JSON Pointers
In 4D v16 R4, we enriched object commands so you can validate JSON objects. 4D v16 R5 is going even further by introducing the support of JSON pointer...
October 30, 2017
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Programmatically manage headers and footers in 4D Write Pro
We've received several customer requests to provide the ability to use the 4D Write Pro template with headers and footers to create other documents ba...
October 16, 2017
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Don’t be afraid of undefined values
With 4D v16 R4, we introduced Object Notation which is a great enhancement to the 4D language: your code is fast, flexible, efficient and elegant! Thi...
October 11, 2017
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Passing data back and forth between forms
Wouldn't it be great if you could just open a form and pass it some parameters to initialize your form objects? What about being able to also get the ...
October 6, 2017
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4D Summit 2016: Laurent Esnault presents workers and UI in preemptive mode
Our own VP of Engineering, Laurent Esnault, explains exchanging information between multiple processes AND between processes and forms during his Brea...
September 22, 2017
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Difference between cooperative and preemptive explained by Laurent Esnault at 4D Summit 2016
Laurent Esnault, VP of Engineering, explains the difference between cooperative and preemptive processes during his Break Out Session about Preemptive...
September 4, 2017
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