by Add Komoncharoensiri, Director of Technical Services at 4D Inc
Here we go with another set of tips and tricks.
The 4D Knowledge Base is a library of information about 4D technology where weekly tech tips and monthly tech notes 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 20 tips:
- Different ways to skip On Startup without accessing code
- Apply different color schemes for system dark/light mode (Mac only)
- 4D Recently Opened List
- Quick loading screen for View Pro area
- Bind Contents to Sheet Cells with VP Set Binding Path
- New .at() function for Collection and Entity Selection Class
- New ways to create objects and collections
- Hiding Class Properties
- Use 19 R6 or newer for larger integer support
- Generate transparent images with the TRANSFORM PICTURE command
- Avoid Heavy Simultaneous Procedures
- Programmatically check if web server started before creating WebSocket server
- Quick way to find the number of records in database tables
- New .first() function in the Collection Class
- Where to enable the QUIC network layer in 20 R2 or newer
- 4D v20 – Minimum Supported TLS
- New .last() function in the Collection Class
- How to instantiate WebSocketServer object properly
- Installing custom fonts with your 4D application (MacOS)
- Providing a consistently reproducible scenario for the case