UX: Enhanced Scrolling Behavior in Subforms
User forms are all about making things easy for users. But what happens when scrolling becomes a battle between subforms and their contents? You've pr...
July 19, 2024
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Subform
A class for easy handling of your sub-forms
On the forum, several requests, tips, or questions have been asked about displaying a message, an hourglass, or some interface elements in the foregro...
February 13, 2024
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Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – August Edition
by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc Here we go with another set of tips and tricks. As you know, 4D Knowle...
August 30, 2022
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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 for...
April 28, 2022
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List box typeahead: Intuitive list searching
by guest author Chris Belanger, a 4D developer from Canada List box typeahead (a method for progressively searching) is not a native feature of list ...
March 2, 2020
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On resize… On resize… On resize…
Wondering how to create a nice and dynamic user interface? Typically when a form is resized, the form objects whose horizontal sizing or vertical sizi...
November 29, 2019
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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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