Summary While we had the productivity plugins we also had a helpful API. Take 4D Write as example. When I want to get or set the document-info, there was one command WR GET/SET DOCUMENT INFO ( area ; title ; subject ; author ; company ; notes ; creationDate ; creationTime ; modifDate ; modifTime […]
Beiträge der Kategorie 4D:
Auto-update 4D-app
Summary Keisuke Miyako: Example of automated upgrade of 4D, using curl (FTP), zip, unzip More details at 4Dforum for our convenience repeated here: „build“ phase. before you start you must do the following: 1. put a copy of „4D Volume Desktop“ inside „Engines“ in the database folder 2. put copies of your „4DDP“ and „4UUD“ […]
[4D forms] Resizing options
Summary 4Ds forms-editor very much still resembles an early vectordrawing-app, a metaphor that MacDraw introduced 3 decades ago. Sometime during the evolution the forms-editor was enhanced by growing/moving-options for form-elements. Very welcome then, very basic today. There is a „Group and Symbol Resizing“-presentation for Sketch 39, which describes what’s missing in 4Ds growing/moving-options for form-elements […]
Mixing SVG-images
Summary 4D introduced SVG with V11, which was in 2007. Long ago. Still SVG didn’t get a stronghold in the 4D community. Partly it’s really confusing, what SVG actually is, besides an XML-tree to represent a drawing. The confusion gets even worse concerning 4Ds mixing and matching techniques to work with SVG. I’ve described that […]
[4D Write]Important advice
Summary In case you missed this advice from 4D-forum 4D Write – don\’t forget Picture->Blob migration, please follow the advice. Immediately! Falls Ihnen dieser Ratschlag im 4D-forum 4D Write – don\’t forget Picture->Blob migration entgangen sein sollte, bitte genau das tun. Sofort! english preferred Ich würde es etwas anders organisieren. Mein Vorschlag: Ich habe kleine […]
[Charts] keep it simple
Summary When 4D was new, the charts 4D could draw where state of the art. The state of the art has left 4Ds charting capabilities behind, long ago. Although I find the new approach of 4D-charting as of 64-bit V15 charming, I need something simple. Much simpler as Highcharts, Plotly, you name them. And of […]
[64-bit] more headroom for memory-leaks
Summary I don’t need no 64-bit, neither 4D-standalone nor 4D Client. We’ll never have that much data to process. These days I was wondering, why my 4D-standalone occupied 8 GB of the available 16 GB of RAM. Turned out, my code was leaking memory. Ich brauche keine 64-Bit, weder in 4D Einzelplatz noch im 4D […]
Formulare zoomen
Summary New guest contribution of Armin Deeg, who is glad to have found 08_Zoom Form of 4D World Tour 2015. His customers love to zoom the forms of his app Exposé for their convenience. Ein Gastbeitrag von Armin Deeg. Angeleitet von 08_Zoom Form aus der 4D World Tour 2015, hat er seine App Exposé um […]
Dynamics for SVG-graphs
Summary Sometimes just the graphical quality of a chart is not enough. Getting some feedback, where the cursor is, what the mouse is touching and which is the data behind, might help to understand better. Here a short video of a 4D-only solution. english preferred Manchmal ist das schönste Histogramm – alle Daten sind berücksichtigt, […]
RSS still works
Summary Seth Godin wrote: Other than writing a daily blog (a practice that’s free, and priceless), reading more blogs is one of the best ways to become smarter, more effective and more engaged in what’s going on. The last great online bargain. … Here’s the thing: Google doesn’t want you to read blogs. … And Facebook […]