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 19 tips:
- Utility Method to Check Object or Entity for a Desired Type
- Utility method to get height of 4D Write Pro header and footer
- Use Folder Separator constant to ensure paths work on both Mac and Windows
- How to perform Find in Design case-sensitive search
- Two ways to allow M1 Macs to connect to compiled 4D app on Windows
- Deprecated 4D Internet Commands (Mail)
- Some advice when encountering application crash
- Comparing Compression Modes in COMPRESS BLOB Command
- Imported Forms in Project mode
- Allow subforms to access parent form variables directly
- Utility Method to Take a Picture and Return its Base64 Text
- Isolate src from Image Element Returned by 4D Transformation Tag
- Utility Method for Collection of Method Attributes with Time and Date
- Avoid using Data Explorer in Internet Explorer
- Static picture does not appear in compiled project
- Write Pro Font Sizes and Toolbar
- Order of HTTPRequest callbacks
- Utility method for trimming leading and trailing spaces from a given text value
- Adding Unique ID Names to HTML Elements Using Transformation Tags