Re: Clean Slate - Modern User Experience

2017-04-16 Thread David Adams via 4D_Tech
Mitchell, Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts about the goals and concepts you kept in mind while developing your design charter, and for taking the time to share some real examples. Very much appreciated. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech <

Re: Clean Slate - Modern User Experience

2017-04-16 Thread Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech
As requested, I have posted a link to a folder with some samples: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3rhyxaaqok0in2m/AADJZmWfoRTpTDuoC08a951ra?dl=0 In it you will find; 1) The Spectrum palette I use for this project 2) The same palette ported to the OS Color Picker 3) Dialog - this is a basic detail

Re: Clean Slate - Modern User Experience.

2017-04-16 Thread Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech
On 15 Apr 2017, at 09:49, rooftop99--- via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Where could I go to see samples of what folks are doing with 4D which brings > the UI into the modern era? Any thoughts? Doesn’t the O/S define ‘modern era’ ? If you stick to vanilla 4D objects (i.e. just the

Re: Clean Slate - Modern User Experience

2017-04-16 Thread rooftop99--- via 4D_Tech
Thank you Mitch. Very helpful!! I would love to see some sample pages... Best! Kirk > On Apr 16, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > Kirk, > > I just re-did the UI of my application. > Here are a few tips form my experience. > > 1) Start

Re: Unclear distinction between web server session and process

2017-04-16 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
John, OK, I see where I was getting mixed up. The session timeout can be a different length than the process timeout. But in practice the session ceases to persist on 4D unless it's active in a process. So when the process providing the context for the session expires that 'session id' goes too.

Re: Clean Slate - Modern User Experience

2017-04-16 Thread Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech
Kirk, I just re-did the UI of my application. Here are a few tips form my experience. 1) Start by picking a color palette of 4-6 colors. I use Spectrum- great app for selecting colors based on their relationship- monochromatic, analogous, complementary etc. Make a table and decide which

Re: PDF's

2017-04-16 Thread Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech
You can use Miyako’s pdf plugin to do basic pdf manipulation. For instance we receive our faxes as pdf’s from an e-fax service. In our application, we create thumbnails of the various pages. The staff can then chose to delete pages (i.e. the cover page) or group pages together as a single pdf.

[MEETING] Montreal 4D Club Meeting

2017-04-16 Thread Thierry Daigneault via 4D_Tech
The next meeting of the Montreal 4D Club will be held Wednesday April 19th at 7 PM. The schedule for the next meeting is as follows: News Questions Presentations - Yves Barrette will show how he used the Google CSE API to reconstruct names that have missing accented characters. End of the