Use an offscreen web area
Do you need to load web pages, extract metadata, or generate pictures from the contents of pages on a headless server? If you answered "yes", then you...
June 9, 2020
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Programming
Download your emails in MIME format with POP3
Do you need to store all business emails, for example, for legal or fiscal purposes? These documents must be stored as they are. That is, how they wer...
June 8, 2020
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ORDA: an up-to-date datastore without restarting
We're thrilled to announce that 4D v18 R3 includes an enhancement that will have a huge impact on the developer's experience. A feature many of you ha...
June 3, 2020
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Project Databases: Method documentation is back
When developing an application, it can be very useful to have quick access to the details of a method (e.g., an explanation of what it does, its synta...
June 1, 2020
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Multiple web servers in a single 4D instance
Have you ever needed to use multiple web servers in order to, for example, split your web application code into several business units, or separate th...
May 25, 2020
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Define the font size for automatic font
In a previous R-release, we added two new automatic themes to define font and the font size, so there are three automatic themes at your disposal whic...
May 20, 2020
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Objects Corner: easy sharing & other good news
How many times have you gotten the "Not supported value type in a shared object" error when trying to put an object into a shared object? What did yo...
May 19, 2020
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Enhanced XPath Support
XPath is a language allowing you to easily work with your XML documents. It's already usable via the DOM Find XML element command and with 4D v18 R3, ...
May 13, 2020
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ORDA – Better list box row selecting
You've probably used the LISTBOX SELECT ROW command many times, looping through each entity in order to select the rows for an entity selection. 4D v...
May 11, 2020
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Object-oriented programming in 4D: Manage class inheritance
In a previous blog post, we introduced a very important concept in object-oriented programming: Classes. Now we'll go through another core concept: In...
May 6, 2020
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