by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc
Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.
As you know, 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about the 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly technotes are actively published. If you missed the last tips on the KB, that’s fine; here is a compilation from the past few weeks.
This blog post covers 16 tips:
- Managing Resources Directory
- Utility method to get the last position of substring
- Avoid dialog windows when running in headless mode
- Utility method to get a 4D View Pro sheet name in v19LTS
- Transformation tags are evaluated even in quotes
- Avoid named parameters in SQL statements
- User Preferences Location in Project Mode
- Special patterns in the default gitignore file
- Always declare variables for compiled mode
- Checking Database File Locations with MSC
- Assure the method in EXECUTE ON CLIENT is executed in a new process
- Utility method that returns the current value of an object in a subform
- Client Server Sync with Project Mode
- Changing the merged app icon on Windows
- User environment no longer exists
- Refreshing Entity or Current Selection in a List Box