Re: v2003 installer?

2019-08-31 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
I have it, Pat. Will send it this afternoon - Janie > On August 31, 2019 at 9:09 AM Pat Bensky via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > > Anybody know where I can find a 4Dv2003 Mac installer? > > PB > > -- > * > CatBase - Top Dog in

Re: unicode, blobs, and the web

2019-08-28 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
A belated thank you, Miyako, for the clarification. I didn't think that was enough text to have filled up 2 GB, but I didn't know how to calculate its size. I still have a question. The write-up for PROCESS HTML TAGS contains the warning, "It is now highly inadvisable to store texts in BLOBs".

unicode, blobs, and the web

2019-08-09 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
v12.6 OS 10.6.8 Hello! I was recently made aware of the fact that, on some web pages, a multiplication sign was displaying as what looked like a square root symbol + a lowercase accented "o". The database is running in unicode; the web site is using UTF-8. The pages in question are

Re: Publishing a DB on the WWW. Howto.

2018-12-03 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
Nolen - There are many, many more options today than there used to be (browse the iNug archives for some lively discussions), but David Adams book is a comprehensive primer that many developers have used over the years, especially to get started. It is now available for download, free, as

Re: is it possible to rename the data file?

2018-08-02 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
42:48 -0400 (EDT), webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech wrote: Is it possible to rename the data file in v12? After converting a v2004 database to v12, but before I'd finished making the necessary changes to the code, I converted datafile updates more than once. Unfortunately, I forgot to

is it possible to rename the data file?

2018-08-02 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
Is it possible to rename the data file in v12? After converting a v2004 database to v12, but before I'd finished making the necessary changes to the code, I converted datafile updates more than once. Unfortunately, I forgot to change the name of the datafile on the last conversion, so it has

autocomplete/ typeahead for a web application?

2018-08-02 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
I would like to add an autocomplete/ typeahead function to a web application, and I'd be interested to know what y'all recommend that can work with 4D's built-in web server (v12.6). Is anyone using Awesomplete? Does it work with mobile browsers? I read that Twitter's Typeahead does not work

Re: query for empty string

2018-02-20 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
Thank you, Keisuke. I will take this off my list of things to worry about Janie - Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:03:03 + From: Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > but I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the sorts of situations that > might require using length=0

Re: query for empty string

2018-02-07 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
Thank you, Miyako - I'm very glad to know that it is okay to continue to use ="" (in general) but I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the sorts of situations that might require using length=0 Given a group of records, * some created manually with data keyboarded in * some created

query for empty string

2018-02-05 Thread webmaster namethatplant.net via 4D_Tech
Hello all - I have converted a database from v2004 to v12, and Unicode is ON. Conversion4Dv11SQL_R9.pdf, page 69, says: In Unicode Mode, if you want to check if a string does not contain any characters, including ignorable ones, you need to use the following test: If (Length(vText)=0)