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DETAILED FEATURE LIST

All the features that are fit to print

With new features that address the latest technologies and solve historical challenges, 4D v13 is designed to make your development better in terms of the functionalities you can bring to users, and the daily task of writing and maintaining your code.

Are you the type that wants to know everything? Here's a long list of everything that's new in 4D v13.

Development

Updated Global Find & Replace: Searching for dependencies

Create your customized tool with the "Design Object Access" commands theme

Get list of methods. Filter by name or modification stamp.
Get/Set the code of any kind of method (project, form, database, etc.)
Get/Set attributes of project methods ("invisible", "executed on server", etc.)
Get and set comments

Enhanced debugger:

Collapse-expand of the code
Lines numbers
Handle escaped characters
New contextual menu

Help tips in the Explorer

Constants to XLIFF

Updated Form Editor

Externalization of custom settings

New debug log selectors in GET/SET DATABASE PARAMETER

Database

External data storage

Picture fields: Indexing of picture keywords

New compacting options

User interface

List boxes

Footers, with calculations
Locked columns
Font-based height for rows/headers/footers
Cell entry control
Vertical alignment
New events
Default values
New commands, new getters/setters

XPS print preview under Windows

New Direct2D graphics rendering engine under Windows

Integrated WebKit in WebArea

4D Progress component

Web server

New HTTP server

Automatic Web session handling
Automatic GZIP compression
New Web cache
64-bit, Carbon-free, Unicode
Preemptive at the core

New 4D tags

New HTTP Client

HTTP Get
HTTP Request

Maintenance and Security Center

New compacting options
External data size

Language

76 new commands

Numerous enhanced commands

Even more getters and setters

Sum, Min, Max now work with arrays

New spell check commands

GET TEXT KEYWORDS, TEXT TO ARRAY

COPY DOCUMENT can deep-copy a folder

Generate MD5 or SHA1 digest

New GZIP compression algorithm for BLOBs

Enhanced SVG component

New database methods

On System Event
On Web Sessions Suspend

And we still haven't mentioned every single new feature and command in 4D v13! Consult the 4D v13 Upgrade Manual for complete and detailed information. Or for a general overview with selected images, see the What's New page for 4D v13.

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IT'S IN YOUR HANDS
Want your 4D v12 data on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch? Now you can.
4D v12 + iSort

By using new introspection commands like METHOD GET PATHS, METHOD GET CODE, FORM GET PROPERTIES, and FORM SCREENSHOT we've been able to create an organized HTML folder that contains all of our application's source code as well as all the form pages. And it took less than three minutes!
THIERRY MAIGNAN
Manager/Developer
Logic'Gram
Developers who have waited for 4D v13 will not be disappointed. With this release, 4D has dramatically improved the development experience. There are plenty of new features that end-users will appreciate, and the changes made at the developer level are truly appealing!
STEPHEN ORTH
President & CEO
The Aquila Group
With our solutions being essentially Web-based and exchanging data via HTTP, the new HTTP server and HTTP_Request commands in 4D v13 provide tangible improvements that in our testing have made our products faster and more efficient. These first impressions lead us to believe we'll be putting 4D v13 into production as soon as possible!
OLIVIER FAURE
Manager/Developer
OLSYS
We have had our internal system – which runs our entire business and communicates with all our servers – up and running in 4D v12 since October 2010, with never a crash, never a slowdown. I am of the opinion that 4D v12.1 is one of the best versions of 4D ever.
JODY BEVAN
CEO
Jonoke Software
For a publisher of enterprise software like Strada, the new mechanism to externalize and store preferences in 4D v13 has greatly simplified the upgrade process and has allowed us to improve the quality of service.
DAMIEN FUZEAU
Development Manager
Strada
We started a new, completely Web-based project with 4D v13. The rewritten Web server brings some marked improvements: On one hand there's the performance thanks to its multi-process capability, but also new features as well, like new tags and commands. Furthermore, the integration of an HTTP client, in addition to providing us with new possibilities, freed us from the use of external tools like cURL. The development interface is measurably more comfortable with its new features like predictive type, comment tooltips, etc. We are thus truly enthusiastic about this new version that we're discovering bit by bit and that gives us even more confidence in our choice of 4D as our platform.
ARNAUD GOUPIL
Analyst/Programmer
Multi-Impact
Orchard Software is excited to take advantage of 4D v13 technologies like the enhanced Web Area and the new process control model to provide exciting features and even greater scalability to our customers.
JEFFREY KAIN
Executive Vice President
Orchard Software
I never hesitated to use 4D when developing TEVENET, because it's not only user friendly, but it represents savings on licenses.
ORLANDO SUáREZ
Founder
SILAT