Tips & Tricks for your 4D Apps – November Edition

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 17 tips:

1. Create a custom searchable field for 4D Write Pro New
2. Access and Edit Backup Settings in a Compiled Project Database
3. Utility Method Converting from Hexadecimal(Base16) to Decimal(Base10)
4. Obtain a collection of object values from a collection of objects using the collection.map()
5. ORDA query – Null and Undefined data types
6. Getting object coordinates when within the list form footer
7. Multiline Behavior in Text Input Boxes Bound to Table Fields
8. 4D Write Pro Numbered Lists and Style Sheets
9. “Available space” error after data file repair
10. Converting certificate authority .pfx file to .pem
11. Locked Property List Window When Upgrading to Newer Versions of 4D
12. Viewing Values of Object in the Debugger Source Code Pane
13. Managing Styles and Colors of ListBoxes
14. Utility Method Decimal to Hexadecimal
15. Registering service to the currently logged-in account to avoid launch issues
16. ORDA query with related entities and aggregate function
17. Replace Process Variables Bound to Input Boxes With Dynamic Variables