Re: Go watch Thomas Maul's presentation. Now.

2016-09-14 Thread Cannon Smith
Yep, for sure. I’d love to hear more about this aspect from 4D itself. There is lots of information about messaging between processes, but not much on this part yet. Thanks. -- Cannon Smith Synergy Farm Solutions Inc. Hill Spring, AB Canada 403-626-3236 >

Re: Go watch Thomas Maul's presentation. Now.

2016-09-14 Thread John DeSoi
I could possibly agree with this if objects were more powerful and complete, but in the current implementation it just invites mistakes and maintenance issues. Object property names are just strings. Unless you build your own system where every property is an object that can provide meta-data,

Re: JDBC Driver for 4D

2016-09-14 Thread Milan Adamov
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 6:24 AM, James Brown wrote: > > I’m still trying to get data out of 4D and into a spreadsheet using ODBC. > > Support person at NeoOffice (a fork of OpenOffice) suggested using JDBC. > > Does 4D have a JDBC Driver? Couldn’t find anything recent on

RE: 4D Write/4D Write Pro

2016-09-14 Thread Paul Dennis
Tim, I only just noticed this. Timothy Penner wrote > Are you using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of 4D? > I just tested 32 bit 4D Dev Pro v15R2 on Windows and it lets me use both > 4D Write and 4D Write Pro. > I then tested 64 bit 4D Dev Pro v15R2 on Windows and as expected the 4D > Write

Re: Go watch Thomas Maul's presentation. Now.

2016-09-14 Thread Kirk Brooks
John, On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 6:11 PM, John DeSoi wrote: > If you could declare constants in code without restarting 4D, it might > change my mind. > ​I'm using Vincent's excellent 4DPOP​ ​constants module to do just this. Yeah you have to do some restarts while you're

Re: Go watch Thomas Maul's presentation. Now.

2016-09-14 Thread Keisuke Miyako
actually, I beg to differ on this. inter-process variables, yes, I suppose you can work around them. but I have not yet found a good way to write worker code without using process variables. true, you can run a worker recursively, passing local/contextual information as arguments packed as an