New 4D Write Pro – Roland Lannuzel

Posted on January 3, 2017 by 4DMethod

January 18th, 2017, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Special Topic:
New 4D Write Pro features that end users will love and give developers a new level of programatic document editing.
Roland Lannuzel

4D applications that work heavily with documents often rely on templates to generate invoices, reports, orders and more. Templates can be tricky to produce. Building them requires an advanced end user or developer.  With 4D v16 plus 4D Write Pro, your applications and 4D code gain access to the new concept of bookmarks.  

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How do you connect to 4D?

Posted on December 14, 2016 by 4DMethod
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Goodnight MosesWalker

Posted on December 5, 2016 by 4DMethod

Redirect your bookmarks!  After years of operating under the GitHub account named MosesWalker, I decided to rename it to 4DMethod to avoid confusion and make it easier to find.   All previous example code and demos are still available at https://github.com/4dmethod.

 

 

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4DListbox component – Bruno Raeymaekers

Posted on November 14, 2016 by 4DMethod

December 7th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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4DListbox Component – Bruno Raeymaekers

Bruno Raeymaekers of HBO Latin America will demo his 4DListbox component that increases your productivity in setting up and maintaining list boxes.
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Dual Nature Of Objects

Posted on November 8, 2016 by 4DMethod

Exploring some interesting behaviors of the C_OBJECT variable type in 4D.  What is the true nature of the Object… pointer or primitive?

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Apply To Selection?

Posted on October 26, 2016 by 4DMethod

Old School Optimization
Explore the performance differences in 4D between a few commands that can be used for the same purpose but have extremely different processing times that may not immediately be apparent without testing…  Apply To Selection, Array To Selection, and Save Record/ Next Record.

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Cloud based storage with 4D and S3 – Bruno Legay

Posted on September 20, 2016 by 4DMethod

October 12th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Cloud based storage with 4D and S3 – Bruno Legay

With Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), it is possible to give your 4D application a taste of the cloud!  S3 can be used to store files, images, blobs, objects, and whatever else makes sense for your application.  S3 is cheap, resilient and flexible and can be accessed via a REST API.  In the demo, we will look at a component which makes it easy to integrate S3 in your 4D environment.  The component is free and provided with source. Continue reading →

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Messaging with 4D v16 – Thomas Maul

Posted on August 1, 2016 by 4DMethod

August 31st, 2016, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Special Topic:
Messaging with 4D v16 –Thomas Maul.

Let’s chat about messaging and how to communicate. No, this isn’t about Snapchat, WhatsApp, emoji or digital stickers. This is about building your application with a modern multithreaded architecture using commands that reduce the problem down to a straightforward approach. Out is the concept of polling your variables for a change of status. Messaging uses a push architecture delivering state changes to your modularly built application.  4D VP of Product Strategy, Thomas Maul, will demonstrate how message passing commands are an approachable way for your application code to use the full processing power available to it.  Learn the details of Call Form and Call Worker, the new commands introduced with 4D v15 R5.  These key features will be available to everyone with the launch of 4D v16 and will revolutionize how you choose to write 4D applications. Continue reading →

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Find in sorted array demo

Posted on July 22, 2016 by 4DMethod

Check out how much faster the new 4D ‘Find in sorted array’ command is than the older ‘Find in array’ command!  I know I’ll be using it.  Maybe it’s time for some refactoring?

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Code Analysis Component for 4D – Dani Beaubien

Posted on July 11, 2016 by 4DMethod

July 20th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Dani Beaubien from Open Road Development will demo his Code Analysis Component for 4D that is targeted to developers to do analysis on their code.  The component provides the ability to export all the methods in the host database as text files, export all the methods as HTML documentation, and provide statistics on each of the methods. Continue reading →

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