Summary You know that quote from Picasso about good artists and great artists or whoever this is attributed to. Wahrscheinlich kennen Sie den Picasso zugeschriebenen Vergleich von guten Künstlern und großen Künstlern, oder wem auch immer das Bonmot zugeschrieben wird. english preferred Es läßt sich nicht verhindern, daß man gutes sieht oder hört und sich […]
Beiträge mit dem Schlagwort Forms
Moving subforms
Summary Placing subforms on a masterform seems pretty simple. Drag the form from the explorer onto the masterform. Done! Well, this could be enhanced. Be prepared or do it yourself. Eine Subform auf einem anderen Formular zu platzieren erscheint einfach. Aus der Formular-Liste des Explorer auf die Zielform ziehen und loslassen. Fertig! Tatsächlich läßt sich […]
The Real Estate Blues
Summary Me, like many others, is always fighting to get the 4D forms layouted properly. There are the competing needs to show everything important, not to make anything too small, and the design should be nice also. Never forget, there are lots of customers with small screens/laptop-screens out there. Now comes 4D Write Pro – Sh… […]
Some listbox designs
Summary Got some feedback to show my current designs concerning listboxes. Here you are! english preferred Oberflächen in 4D sind für mich ohne Listboxen nicht mehr aktuell. Im folgenden einige Screenshots aus dem aktuellen Betrieb. Hierarchische Listboxen Die meisten Listen haben mehr Einträge als auf eine Bildschirm-Seite passen. Dann verwende ich hierarchische Listboxen und klappe […]
experimenting with current UI-concepts
Summary The current designs of UI – Apple’s iOS and macOS, Google’s material-design for Android and even Microsoft’s attempts to modernise Windows – are a welcome evolution for us 4D-developers. UI-elements are getting flat, simple, text based. Those kind of UI-objects are much easier to create ourselves, than those skeuomorphic, nearly photo-like renderings of real […]
[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 […]
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, […]