Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

Tim, actually, I’ve nearly always used custom stylesheets…. I’ve never utilized the scale form feature until recently and only on one form as a test. Since I’ve never used this, I never knew the history or intent of the feature. I was just exploring how best to bring this legacy structure into

Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

“Giving it the eye ball…” this cracked me up! :) Thanks Tim for the detailed response. Using custom style sheets extensively was my most utilized approach. Robert > On Dec 7, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > You determine what looks good by

Re: 4D Structure Export...

Thanks for your comments Kirk. > On Dec 7, 2018, at 11:07, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > I'm not familiar with VC_Framework but the big improvement in R3 is the > addition of Form convert to dynamic. This allows you to export all the > forms - not just the object and

Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

On Dec 7, 2018, at 3:43 PM, Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org> wrote: > to me - form scaling means: > I hit a key (press a button, whatever) and the form enlarges - > think of Command/Control + on a web page. > think of the designer form control 50% 100% 200% 400% > > I have implemented

Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

to me - form scaling means: I hit a key (press a button, whatever) and the form enlarges - think of Command/Control + on a web page. think of the designer form control 50% 100% 200% 400% I have implemented this in v13 by using Object Set Font Size(+/-1) on everything on the form (list forms

Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

On Dec 7, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Robert ListMail wrote: > I showed a scaled up version of a few forms, during a migration to v17 and > later I decided to move everything to automatic stylesheets as recommended by > Keisuke that this is best practices now. So, Jefferey, are you using > automatic

Re: 4D Structure Export...

> > On Dec 7, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > I'm not familiar with VC_Framework but the big improvement in R3 is the > addition of Form convert to dynamic. This allows you to export all the > forms - not just the object and form methods. The

Re: 4D Structure Export...

Tom, On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:14 AM Tom Benedict via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > if this feature does more than the export we’ve been able to do since > v12/14 via various versions of VC_Framework. Is this simply a higher level > of integration with the app or does it actually

4D Structure Export...

There are a couple of recent posts on the 4D Blog related to exporting 4D methods and forms as text as a new feature in v17R3: https://blog.4d.com/text-files-from-your-structure-file/ and

Re: Formula as Variable

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Formula as Variable

Is there a way to pass a formula into a method as a variable ? vtFormula:="([ItemDiscounts]BasePrice*(1-([ItemDiscounts]PerCentDiscount*0.01)))" vtSort:="<" ORDER BY FORMULA([ItemDiscounts];Execute text(vtFormula);vtSort) Thanks, Jim Medlen This email was transmitted on 100 percent recycled

Re: CONVERT PICTURE not seeming to work for me...

Where do you find this font? I can't seem to find it listed in my system fonts :) On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 20:26:06 -0500, Charles Miller via 4D_Tech wrote: > font of great info --- Gas is for washing parts Alcohol is for drinkin' Nitromethane is for racing

Re: Form Scaling & Optimal Fonts...

I have a followup question: if you can not apply a color to the style sheet then that would mean manually (programmatically) applying a color to every object on a form every time the form is displayed. -- A PITA to be sure. BUT.. once a color is applied via code (Object Set Color, or Object Set