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Most of the online software downliad site supports the PAD file for your application submisssion. The PAD (Portable Application Description ) is a machine-readable document format designed by the Association of Shareware Professionals Though it’s just an XML file and you can create this using an XML Editor or even a notepad, I find it […]

Here are few tips regarding the 4D v11 Plug-in development (particularly using the XCode): By default the Architecture mode for the Project Development Configuration is “Native Architecture of Build Machine”. This means if you are developing this plug-in on the Mac Intel machine, your plug-in will not work on the 4D if it’s running in […]

or the last couple of days, I have been working on the migration of one of the 4D Plug-in to the v11, and it has been a fun and frustrating experience (to some extent). It was frustrating, because there is very little help available, and there is no starting guide. You have to explore and […]

JavaScript doesn’t natively support the string trim (removing leading and trailing spaces) function, but this function is quite useful and required from time to time. Fortunately, you can do this as easily as by just single line of code using regular expression and can add support to all the string objects using the JavaScript prototyping. […]

Recently, I migrated my website from the free domain syedgakbar.co.cc to my new domain www.syedgakbar.com. Once the migration process was done, I looked into options to redirect all the new traffic point to old site to my new site without breaking the links: As I was hoping, it was just a one line change in […]