t
> > into the viewer tool. It only seems to be angle brackets. I tried
> escaping
> > them to no avail. I even tried rendering the text into a picture and then
> > setting the picture in the $svgRef object but the Viewer also barfed on
> > that.
> >
> > Anyone have some insigh
Ok, so this is an edge case. The ultimate workaround was to just build the
image in pure SVG using lines.
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> notice that when I attempt
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> If you delete an object, it should know how to delete the object method.
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> I enter some text.
> Cut the text
> paste the text
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> AND... the pasted text is largerlike from 10 (original) to 12
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Chip,
No, not in v13. Your only options are for the entire row or the entire
column.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org>
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> Can I set the font and/or background color for a specific cell in a
> selection listbox?
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> MAXLONG would be expressed as a negative number (4D doesn
IP converter which gives me
192.168.1.3 => 3232235779 or 0xC0A80103
But this is bigger than MAXLONG = 2147483647 => 127.255.255.255
So I don't see how I can even encode an IP where the first quad is
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If I set a value WGO returns that value - not the actual IP the web server
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This is v15.3, Mac, BTW.
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structure in constructing my objects - even if they aren't on a scale where
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> You want *Get database parameter *command.
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I thought I saw this recently but I can't find it now - given a copy of 4D
running the web server how can I get the IP address it's listening to?
I thought WEB GET OPTION would do it but it doesn't dynamically (it only
seems to return whatever value WEB SET OPTION installed).
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> V15 and up has it. Who knew?
>
> http://doc.4d.com/4Dv15/4D/15.3/Find-in-sorted-array.301-3152640.en.html
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like I said, in 4D I look at c-objects as agnostic data containers. So an
object array being able to contain multiple data types is a feature.
But I may be thinking too small. What are some cases where "you need to
know the internals of an object in orde
I never found some real issue with this schema.
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e right.
I seem to be settling on a general convention of
module_verb_descriptor
so
Object_get_whatever
I really want to the methods to sort together by 'module' - but as soon as
I say that I can think of several times I violated it.
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think is a good thing, into the form controller and I can deal with it
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y get this feature by
> clearing out the variable name area in the object's property list.) Also,
> I'm striving to move the code out of scripts entirely. At this point, I'm
> doing a bunch with listboxes so I've ended up with some listbox-specific
> behaviors and questions. Oh, in ca
's particularly hard in this
environment. Pretty much everyone wants good testing until we have to spend
the resources to actually achieve it.
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remember there was a bug where if you upgrade from v11 straight to v13
> unicode mode was deactivated yet the compatibility dialog told otherwise.
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>
Well, I'm not really sure what the deal is but I resolved it by running
MSC, correcting a few other, unrelated problems, and then running 'repair'.
Verified with:
C_TEXT($tex
ying to do is something like this:
$code:="$text:=\"\"damn\" dog \\on hill\r\n"
$code:=$code+"ALERT(___escape ($text)+\"\r\r\"+$text)"
and then run $code.
In this context the method makes sense. I've found it challenging to have
4
> dereference to the text values which I expect. I don't understand the
> syntax errors.
>
> Any idea what I may be doing wrong?
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Working with an old project that's currently at v13. Text vars are
truncating to 32k. I initially thought this would be because of the Unicode
setting but even after enabling and restarting with Unicode they still
truncate.
What's the dang deal here?
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is a little over 1 gig. I zipped it and got
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I'm working in v13 at the moment.
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Guy,
That's a good point.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Guy Algot <g...@macjedi.ca> wrote:
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> seen how many ‘features’ get voted for in the forum but we get a new editor…
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> I.e., I'm not clear what itch got scratched with that change.
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Subject pretty much says it all - give a web area on a 4D form how can I
catch a drop in the javascript on the displayed page?
For example, an element is dragged from an hList or listbox to a div on the
web area. How can I coerce the web area into generating the javascript
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> the tabs in the "Connection To Server" dialog.
>
> Click on "Available" then "Custom" then "Available" again and at this point
> you would have crashed.
>
> Not even need t
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87+) are signed and should bypass
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> Ed,
> Tell me more then. I signed up for the public beta just because I'd
> heard
> that but v15.3 still crashes right off when
wrote:
> That comes as news to me as I am running 10.12.2 (Public Beta 4) without
> any issues using 15.3.
>
> Ed
>
> On 12/5/16, 9:05 AM, "4D_Tech on behalf of Kirk Brooks" <
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>
>
Gerald,
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Gerald Balzer <gbal...@balzer-computing.ch>
wrote:
> This applies to all current 4D versions. Even 15 and 16(?).
>
v15.3 doesn't run on 10.12.2.
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further believe that you can
> setup more then 1 mirror. In the situation you are talking about the
> mirrors would be the remote site(s)
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> manner. I'm a fan of "low tech&quo
Hi Tim,
Thanks for this. And explains why the .match file gets stashed in the Logs
folder.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Tim Nevels <timnev...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Kirk Brooks wrote:
>
> > Miyako,
> > Playing with your UUID tool cla
l three. There are very few places anymore that I really need the
> overhead of spawning a new process and trying to time them together. In
> fact, I can’t think a a single reason to do so once you are using 4D
esource name...)
> https://github.com/miyako/4d-utility-uuid-manager
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> mis-matched structure-data file combo? To prevent people corkscrewing open
>
> other people's data files?
>
I never thought of that. And in my youth I used to manage bars and
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lds.
- Open Structure B. Create Table 1 & name it [_species_] and give it 5
text fields.
- Re-open Structure B and open the datafile created by Structure A.
What I'm seeing is the table names don't seem to matter as long as the
Tables and Fields have exactly the same numbers
. That could
be an issue here too I hadn't thought of.
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I'm interested in your thoughts on the big picture if you're up for
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FWIW - if the context menu is enabled the Reload command on that does the
full relaod.
I'd still like to know how to do it via programming.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Kirk Brooks <lists.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's something I haven't noticed before - I'm developing some html/j
) and write the results to objects or variables
passed as pointers.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Peter Jakobsson <li...@netkelvin.com> wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2016, at 16:16, Kirk Brooks <lists.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I use all three of the instances discussed: dire
a long time ago)
you can setup an import form allowing a user to paste in the TSV text. I
do this also with everything from a few lines to files a few megs in size.
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- if params are required get the comments, extract any JSON obj,
configure the dialog and get user input
- run it using Execute method
This seems especially well suited to things like maintenance tasks.
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org>
wrote:
> I pulled a back up copy - it is only 2 days old.
> I have the v13 (up to date copy) I can go through the sections I was
> working on and check them
>
> and thanks for the tip on find in design - ill try that -- Monday :)
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t; BMP image and tile it or scale it:
>
> https://github.com/OrchardSoftware/4D-Win32API
>
> You can also change the little corner icon of any window, and do other UI
> tricks that make a 4D app on Windows look quite nice, rather than 4D's
> default of, uh, "abandoned"? &qu
to them like 4D isn't working right.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:25 PM, <roofto...@mac.com> wrote:
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> pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf
>
> You could modify the pdfDocPageAddText method for special characters by
> altering $1 at the top of the method. For example to get the Euro to show
> correctly use:
>
> $1:=Replace string($1;&qu
ion. The PDF is built in blobs and there are some conversions of
blob to text and text to blob along the way. Or this may be an issue of not
having complete font information available. Are there any PDF facil readers
who can offer some insight here?
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Lee,
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>
> For €400-600 (per developer, no server fees etc.) you’re all set.
>
600 euros is less than $640.
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wrote:
> Let me get this straight.
>
> Is NTK 3.0 essentially starting to compete with Wakanda ?
>
Shhh!
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>
> Networking ToolKit (NTK) is a plugin that offers a rich tool set for
> network communication. Version 3.0 includes many new exciting features.
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a
pretty sweet machine.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Timothy Penner <tpen...@4d.com> wrote:
> Indeed, the 16B2657 build of Sierra does not play well with 4D, while the
> older and newer builds of Sierra seem to be much better.
>
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and sort it out later.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Dennis, Neil <neil.den...@umb.com> wrote:
> > I guess it just affirms the point that date constants are too ambiguous
> and not worth your while.
>
> What do you use instead of date constants to spe
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> Apple."
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> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Kirk Brooks <lists.k...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Just unboxed a new MBP. And it's pretty fricking awesome! Just saying.
> >
> > Aft
ring minds wanna know, which do you have?
>
16B2659
- delivered yesterday
> if you are a developer, you can get beta 10.12.2 which per release notes
> fixes the 16b257 issue.
>
I'm not.
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did make that change you wanted to loop through all the records and 'touch'
them to force a re-save. Cold comfort.
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en using it for years on Windows.
>
Ah ha! That's the kind of hack I was looking for. Of course it assumes the
user has Acrobat on board but that's easy to deal with.
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This is OSX. There's no issue with the PDF - it opens and prints just fine
from a reader. Code runs with no errors but also without printing anything.
What am I missing?
And I also need the solution for doing the same thing on wind
t; instead of text so I can access it directly. I’m in v15r5 which makes this
> possible. A very nice technique
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> Sub1 and Sub2. When some code is executing within the context of Sub1, I
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> do you override this to allow a different user to login?
>
> Thanks
>
>
If a user has checked the Remember Me checkbox on the password screen how
do you override this to allow a different user to login?
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> that same array.
>
>
> Richard Wright
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>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:43:48 -0700
> > From: K
ously.
The buried lede in this story may actually be how easily 4D handles 400
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ESS(Current process;1)
Else
DELAY PROCESS(Current process;2)
End if
End for
End case
//Lock_object
While (Semaphore("$"+$1))
IDLE
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Kirk Brooks
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which makes me think I'm missing something.
Is anyone doing this also? Could you share a few tips on how you make it
work?
Thanks
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Kirk Brooks
San Francisco, CA
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