Hi Chuck,
RE> A one line method
RE> OPEN ADMINISTRATION WINDOW
RE> 4D crashes every time
What if you open a new process method with the one line?
I call OPEN ADMINISTRATION WINDOW and it does work, but I have it in its own
process. Can't say why other than that's how I wrap all my primary
RE> I found an older JPR example (I think) and it was really easy!
vOver:=False // Flag for cancel printing
Repeat
$ref:=Print object(*;"tscanChartInfo")
vOver:=Print object(*;"lb_Timeline")
If (Not(vOver))
Doug,
RE> We have been working on moving our generic listing over to using ORDA
I don't have any knowledge of the picture field issue; I’m very interested in
your approach to creating the generic listing. Have you found a demo somewhere
that shows how to do this? I'm just opening the book on
RE> "Emails sent by the SMTP Internet commands are just the same as emails
created by any other mail program. They will show up in the Sent folder for
the account that sent them. I do this all the time for my clients and they
know that the 4D emails will show up next to the emails they sent
Is there a way I can check the system internet proxy server setting from 4D?
This is in Windows 10; I have a web service that if called from one proxy does
not work, yet from another proxy works fine. I'd like to make a call in
advance to check if the correct proxy is being used.
Thank you,
Has anyone done a project with FormStack, which is a forms-creation tool? My
understanding is that FormStack allows you to create a form and drop it into a
frame on a website. When the customer fills out the form, FormStack can send
the content to anywhere using its API's.
I'm interested in:
Hello,
I have a project where sales data is being sent to an FTP site and I'm
picking it up and importing into 4D. The latest dataset comes from Asia
Pacific and is stored as a double byte character set in EBCIDIC format. I
need to somehow open this and convert it back to the source
Hi Everyone,
This is a most fundamental thing, but I've now wasted enough time on it
that I think that either I should take some time off OR lay off the
holiday egg nog (maybe both).
If I programatically create a file using 4D, such as an Acrobat PDF file
or an Excel file, and then I want to
Uist, Koen -
RE> You will need to use BASE64 DECODE on your returned $Value
Thanks very much, that was exactly what I was looking for! Works
perfectly!
Bob Miller
Chomerics, a division of Parker Hannifin Corporation
ll
Hi Everyone,
I'm confounded by a SOAP service that returns a binary (for a PDF file) -
I'm not able to figure out how to save it as a proper PDF document that
Acrobat understands.
I get a SOAP response like (the binary was abridged for readability):
http://DefaultNamespace;
Hi Everyone,
I've recently discovered in my v16 (Windows) database a few rogue records
that contain PICT images in picture fields. These, of course, do not
display in 64 bit 4D, so I need to convert them.
When I run this:
ARRAY TEXT($aPicCodecList;0)
ARRAY TEXT($aPicCodecNames;0)
PICTURE
Ah, this is such a complex issue. You need to know:
- the time zone where your server is (which is where you will get the date
and time using Current Time(*)
- the time zone where your user is
- the time zone where you want to know what time it is
- whether it is daylight savings time where
Since about 3pm on Friday I've been trying to file a tech support case on
taow.4d.com, but I get, "This site can't be reached".
Anyone else seeing this?
Bob Miller
Chomerics, a division of Parker Hannifin Corporation
ll
Hi Everyone,
I've recently completed a conversion from 4D v15 -> v16r6 on Windows, for
a built-server application. This also changed the client from a 32 bit
client to a 64 bit client and we went to the "new" network layer.
Since then, we've had many reports from both users with locally
Re> I demand PDF manuals!
Ditto. Laurent promised we could have PDF manuals at the Atlanta summit.
He could not see why their production was a problem. That hasn’t happened.
I’ve held out or skipped deploying several versions until PDF documentation
was available, and I’m doing the same for
Hi Everyone,
Is there a way to tell through the language whether a listbox is an "Array
Type" listbox or a "Field Type" listbox?
I have a listbox that is a "Field Type" listbox, but all it contains is
formulas that point to fields, so I'm having fits trying to find out how
to identify the
I've not ever seen this before today, when I was testing a database that I
moved from v15 -> v16r6. The stylesheets came through, but some fields
that had style sheets and all the ones that did not all of a sudden are
displayed in the Wingdings font.
Cheryl, how did you detect objects that
RE> I have a component created v15, opened with 64 bit 4D v16 on Mac, but
the host database stops us compiling with v16 on Mac.
Does a component create with a 32bit version need to be 'converted'
somehow?
Jim,
Under 'Database Settings' - Compiler - there's a checkbox for
'Multi-target
Thanks to all who replied so far. I've been trying different things.
Vance - RE: Can you make a picture have an opaque effect?
This isn't what I want to do; the pictures have an opaque effect where the
white backgrounds are opaque when what I want is for the background to be
transparent, so
I'm digging through the docs - is there a new way to get into the Design
mode in v16?
Up to v15, choosing a menu item with no associated method and no standard
action would do the job, but this doesn't work in v16.
I can Shift+Alt+Right Click and choose 'Go to Design Mode' - but clearly I
Hi Everyone,
I'm in the process of going through a database to convert all the
pictures, icons, and such in it so I can use the database with 64-bit 4D
v16 (and eventually v17).
The documentation is pretty clear that even though any images pasted in
did not start life as PICTS - and I'm
Hi Noah,
I'm not clear if your question regards SEND RECORD or, "Am I missing
something in my understanding of looping over records?"
Regarding SEND RECORD, the example in the documentation isn't complete,
you first have to set up a destination for the record using SET CHANNEL.
An error -28
Hi Everyone,
I'm taking inventory of a form using FORM GET OBJECTS and I come upon an
object that is "Object Type Subform". I can get the object name of
subform from the point of view of the current form, but what I want is the
name of the form and the table to which it belongs so I can in
Hi Everyone,
I've been mining the 4D KB looking for a technique whereby I can
automatically update a 4D Server merged application. I'd like to do the
following:
> Set a time when the merged server application will send a notice to
users that it will shut down
> Merged app then shuts down
Hi Everyone,
I have a 4D Client user (v15r5, Windows) who can't connect, with error -19191.
I can't find this error in either the language ref, the server reference, or
the design ref. Does anyone have an idea of what this error is?
Thanks,
Bob Miller
Parker Hannifin Corp.
RE> What I?m not sure how to do (well, I?m unwilling to spend the time,
because WTH) is capture spaces within a variable name.
If anyone puts spaces in a variable name, well, they deserve what they
get.
I also realized that constructions such as ARRAY
TEXT($aMyTextArray;$ArraySize) contain
Thanks to everyone for all the responses!
I put the macro at the end of this posting.
Cannon Smith inquired:
RE> I don?t have a macro for you, but I?m curious to know why asking the
compiler to check the syntax isn?t enough?
1. It may not be a syntactical problem; I may have simply forgotten
Hello,
Has anyone created a macro to check a method to make sure all its local
variables are declared?
I've thought about undertaking such a thing, but as it probably involves
getting into regular expressions, I've been looking forward to doing this
with some dread.
If anyone has done this
Hi Everyone,
I am being sent some files that are "deep" inside a 7-ZIP archive. That
means when you open them with the 7-ZIP GUI tool (7-ZIP is kind of like
WinZip), you see a folder, then you open the folder, then another folder,
then...then..and about 6 levels deep there's a couple of text
Hi Jim,
I feel a bit silly, but I've just killed an hour looking for the v16
version of "4D Internet Commands".The v16 Conversion manual specifies
there are differences between v15 and v16, so I presume there is a v16
version out there, but I don't see it on the FTP site (mostly old stuff
Hi Everyone,
I have a task that might be a good application for a 4D web area. This
would be my first use of this feature; normally I'd use Arealist or a
Listbox to do this, but in this case the number of variables is high
enough that a new approach might be warranted.
The problem: we have a
RE> User A should not be sharing the machine with User B, otherwise, if
they are sharing, then SSO should not be used.
OK, I accept that.
In a different view of things (this wouldn't be SSO, but rather, using AD
authentication) there some way that I could present a login screen, accept
the
Hello,
I'm working on implementing SSO using 4D Server's new feature for that in
our Windows environment. I'm working with our corp AD security folks and
haven't got it to work yet (lots of hoops to jump through), but am trying
to figure out how it works in the absence of being able to try
This is sad news, and I'm shocked indeed. I have not met Ortwin, but I've
read many, many of his posts on the Forums and he is on the "Must Read"
list when he posts to the iNug, as others have said as well. Certainly he
contributed a great deal to 4D and to this community. He will be missed
Hi Everyone,
I've been digging on this: is it possible to view/maintain Users & Groups
from the 4D Server console?
I've not used the 4D Password system until recently, when I started using
CHANGE CURRENT USER so that I could get the user name from a trigger
method. Now I'm interested to
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