4DPop
Window


4DPop Window gives a hierarchical and organized window menu that resumes the windows of the development methods and the one of the application methods. Tools allow arranging the windows or to recover a window out of screen.

Installation

Place the folder "4DPop Window.4dbase" or an alias of the folder into the folder "Components" near the structure file of your database.

If you use the component "4DPop", the tool "Window" displays in the palette, just click on it to display the window menu. You can also drop the package/folder "4DPop Window.4dbase" on the palette to automatically create the alias in the folder Components and restart your database.

Usage

The offered menu includes:

1) the open windows of the database presented hierarchically by type.

- A first group named "Application" is constituted of open windows in the other processes that the 4D process.
Typically these are windows that you opened in application methods or to test your development.

- A second group constituted by items "Project Methods", "Forms", "Database Methods" and "Triggers" grouping together respectively these different types of windows in a hierarchic menu attached to each of the ditto. In the item "Forms", These are presented by their name and include a submenu grouping together all the open elements of this form.

- The last group "Others" include the various open windows in development methods (Explorer, ToolBox...)

2) Tools to manage windows

- "Order" allows reorganizing the open windows in cascades.

- "Recover" replace in the screen a window that would be inaccessible after a machine change or of resolution.

- "Next" allows passing in the foreground the immediately situated window after the window of first current plan.

- "Options" allows regulating certain behavior of the component of which the by default associated action to the button of the palette.

Source code provided

This component is given in compiled version, but you will find the source code in the folder "Sources" inside the component folder.