Re: Using the HELP Menu for my own purposes.

2019-04-29 Thread Keith Culotta via 4D_Tech
The exception to the menu being empty for a standard build (with no additional components or plugins) is the SVG Component. It has a help file of its own inside 4D that needs to be removed at some point. Show 4D Contents and navigate to 4D/Contents/Components/4D SVG.4dbase. Show Contents of 4D

Re: Using the HELP Menu for my own purposes.

2019-04-29 Thread Alberto Bachler via 4D_Tech
> the Help menu is empty if you build the application. Are you sure Miyako? Since what version? We noticed that the Hep menu on builded applications was showing help items belonging to plugins (and components). My solution was, before the build start, execute a method that look for any .htm@

Re: CSV import with version 13

2019-04-29 Thread Randy Jaynes via 4D_Tech
Chuck, Try this: https://kb.4d.com/assetid=50956 Charlie Vass wrote this Tech Note years ago (v11 era). I adapted it to make a generate CVS_ParseLine utility in my database and it’s come in handy several times over the last few years. HTH, Randy

CSV import with version 13

2019-04-29 Thread Chuck Miller via 4D_Tech
Hi. All does anyone have v13 code that will do this they are willing to share. I have new client still at 13 and I need to write import before I can do upgrade Thanks and regards Chuck Sent from my iPhone ** 4D Internet Users

Re: Using the HELP Menu for my own purposes.

2019-04-29 Thread John DeSoi via 4D_Tech
Vote for the feature request at the link below from 2007. I also requested it before the forum existed back in 1998. Don't hold your breath :). https://forums.4d.com/Post/FR/1510042/1/2352980 John DeSoi, Ph.D. > On Apr 28, 2019, at 5:51 PM, Herr Alexander Heintz via 4D_Tech >

Re: Form and DIALOG

2019-04-29 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Jeremy, In the situation you describe I initialize the object that will be passed to the Dialog first. Like so: $formObj:= New object("listbox_1";New Collection(100;200;300);"someObject";New Object("foo";"Hello world") DIALOG("MyDialogForm";$formObj) // Dialog is closed and $formObj contains

Re: Arrow on Windows

2019-04-29 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 29 avr. 2019 à 09:59, Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a > écrit : > > [...] > unicode give you plenty of choices: Very true, unicode is our friend. As an example, a method I use to represent some keyboard keys. The link to wiki in comments is a french-but-interesting

Re: Form and DIALOG

2019-04-29 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
Thanks, Arnaud. I was looking at the documentation for Form, not DIALOG. I think this is likely to be a superbly useful feature. Jeremy > On 29 Apr 2019, at 11:56, Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > > >> Le 29 avr. 2019 à 10:05, Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech

Re: Form and DIALOG

2019-04-29 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 29 avr. 2019 à 10:05, Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a > écrit : > > Is it safe to use the object returned by the Form command as a means of > passing data back to the caller?[...]there’s nothing in the documentation, as > far as I can see, to indicate whether this is

Re: Form and DIALOG

2019-04-29 Thread Justin Carr via 4D_Tech
Jeremy, That's definitely one of the supported/encouraged behaviours as far as I am aware. cheers J > On 29 Apr 2019, at 6:05 pm, Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > Is it safe to use the object returned by the Form command as a means of > passing data back to the

Form and DIALOG

2019-04-29 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
Is it safe to use the object returned by the Form command as a means of passing data back to the caller? That is, should the method of the form opened in DIALOG regard its Form object as read-only, or is it allowed to alter it? At present, changing the values of the object passed by DIALOG

Re: Arrow on Windows

2019-04-29 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
choosing a font is so irrelevant unicode give you plenty of choices: ← ⇦ ⃖ ⃪ ⬅ ⃖ etc. > 2019/04/29 15:44、Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>のメール: > > Is there a font, which will reliably be present on users’ machines, which > has such a character? Or must I resort to a picture

Arrow on Windows

2019-04-29 Thread Jeremy Roussak via 4D_Tech
I need a small button to contain an arrow pointing to the left. On my Mac, I can manage it easily (there’s a nice one in Wingdings 3), but my app also has to run under Windows. I know very little of Windows fonts. Is there a font, which will reliably be present on users’ machines, which has