4D v13

DETAILED FEATURE LIST

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Boasting over 200 new features that address the latest technologies, 4D v13 is designed to make your development better: Both in terms of the features and functionalities you can bring to users, and to 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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