Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – July 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 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:

• How to hide row in Quick Report editor
• VP Copy and Paste With Cell Sizes 
• Radio buttons grouped by name are forced off in project mode 
• Easy way to show the Resources folder (or any of its subfolders) on Disk
• Running a Form from the Form Editor runs it in Application Process 
• Utility method to get all distinct values for field 
• Write a query condition as a literal string expression for a date or time attribute 
• Utility method that validates the existence of a table or a field from a name
• Difference between three appearance settings on MacOS
• Remote DataStore Compiler 550.5 Warnings 
• Use manual comment tags for easier code navigation 
• How to set picture pathname of a button as variable
• Typing Error with Compiler Variables 
• Changing Google Drive directory on macOS in order to be visible by 4D 
• Encryption key not found on an external device at startup 
• Utility method to get Initials from a name or any given tokenized text