The international magazine for the 4D developers

A Well Designed table for Well Designed tables
Creating well designed tables for a task which must be carried out with great care. It will determine the structure and organization of the remaining development and coding of your project.

Arguments about parameters
Many commands in 4D need "arguments" (also named "parameters") in order to function. Your project methods can also benefit from the power of these elements whose meaning and function we shall explore.

First steps with menus (1)
4D allows usage of a database in two modes: in User mode or Custom menus mode

Exporting: an iPod case study
The craze for Apple's iPod gives us opportunity of presenting a practical case of exploring and exporting to the vCard format

Triggers: The Lethal Weapon
4D version 6.0 introduced a new type of method is unfortunately little used for it is poorly understood. This article will answer all your questions.

2002: A Toolbar Odyssey
Do your users want more and more toolbars and rollover buttons?

Document Selection
How to select a document in a specific folder without opening it.

To patch 4D
Who does not wish to modify the behavior of 4D: add a shortcut to a menu, modify 4D's dialog boxes, etc.... This article, based on the course given in La Baule during the 2001 4D University and in Orlando during the 2001 US Summit, will show you how to do this...

Variable to BLOB
Many unrecognised 4D commands - with richness often unsuspected - should be hightlighted. In each issue, Planet 4D will help you to (re) discover them.

And 4D Chart became efficient!
An incorrigible perfectionist, Mimosa has improved the 4D Chart piloting module presented at the "Université 4D 2001".

Using Regular Expressions in 4D
Regular Expressions are an extremely powerful tool for performing complex string matching, parsing and substitution operations. They can be thought of as formulas that describe text and allow it to be matched against a variety of criteria.