Hello ernie > But, I have tried four time to 'get a grip' on Active4D, I slam into text > (manuals) that makes no cense to me and does not empower me to continue to > want to 'learn' this fantastic product
Indeed, I feel your pain. Some of the documentation and material focuses more on the powerful, fancy stuff that Active4D can do rather than the simple. For that reason I’ve created a small demo for you in case you find it more accessible. In the time since you made that post I’ve both cooked my daughter’s dinner and created this 1-page site containing active content generated in pure 4D script written directly into the web page. The beauty of this approach is that it levers what you already know and doesn’t require acquiring a whole new active script skill set. (Clearly for some stuff you always do such as Javascript etc). The demo page demonstrates queries, writing data to a table, reading data from the table and outputing to html as well as calling into native 4D methods and commands from the web page. What I did: 1. Downloaded the Active4D shell from here: http://www.aparajitaworld.com/downloads/ 2. Created a table and 1 method (the “getRoman” function) 3. Opened TextMate and wrote the code you see below 4. Saved the page in the “web” folder next to my structure (“mypage.a4d”) Here’s the finished page output: https://s29.postimg.org/892ryx4g7/page.png Here’s active web page code containing 4D code written into the html between percent tags: https://s24.postimg.org/xwguynfrp/code1.png https://s27.postimg.org/hjf1128wz/code2.png Here’s the structure: https://s29.postimg.org/67cmogc47/structure.png Here’s Active4D helping me debug the finished result: https://s30.postimg.org/m6sps0p6p/debug.png I’ve sent you the demo by PM in case you’d like to explore it. ill be happy to do so for anyone else that wants it. Hope that helps although I realise you may already have got past this stage but many people don’t even get that far as they are under the impression that the learning curve is steeper. Best Regards Peter ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
