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Vanessa Talbot

Project databases: Improved views in the form editor

The Form Editor allows you to create, modify, and customize your forms. Several tools are available to make your work easier, one of which is the Views palette. This tool makes it easy to build complex forms by distributing objects into different views. The views enable objects to be hidden or displayed as needed.

What if you’re working on a form developed by someone else? How can you quickly determine if the form uses views? Are there limitations on the number of views permitted? 4D v18 R2 and project databases eliminate these existential questions while greatly enhancing the user experience! 

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Fabrice Mainguené

4D View Pro: Manage Rows and Columns

More features continue to be added to 4D View Pro’s ever-growing list of capabilities and this R-release is no exception. 4D v18 R2 includes new commands allowing you to add and remove columns or rows, as well as define their size, visibility, and header labels. This blog post shows you how!

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Ease your developer’s life with list boxes

Our main objective is to make developers’ lives easier, day after day, and list boxes are one 4D’s most used and powerful form objects that serve this purpose. We all know that list boxes trigger many events, that’s why in 4D v18 R2 we’ve enhanced the Form event command to return even more information when list box events are triggered.
 
Want to let go of your old tricky code for guessing which row, column, or header you clicked or put your mouse on? Let us show you a smoother and smarter way to do it!

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Take control of your work area

Want to adapt your application’s interface to your end user’s system preferences? Want to make sure your application’s interface isn’t obscured by the macOS dock or menu, or by the Windows taskbar? In this blog post, we’ll show you how!

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