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4D v13.4
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General Page
This page contains various options to configure the general operation of your 4D application. The options of this area configure various automatic functions used during startup and when switching to the Application environment. This option configures the default display provided by 4D on startup when the user launches only the application.
This menu lets you set the behavior of 4D when you create a table in the Structure editor and then open, for example, the records display window. By default, 4D tells you that no form has been created for the new table and then gives you the option of creating default input and output forms automatically: There are three options available:
If this option is checked, when the user switches to the Application environment using the Test Application menu command, all the windows of the Design environment are closed. If this option is not checked (factory setting), the windows of the Design environment remain visible in the background of the Application environment. This group of options specifies the configuration to apply when creating a new application. You can check this option to implement a set of backup parameters in each new database (automatic backup, log file, etc.) ensuring minimum security. For more information about this option, refer to Automatic backup strategy. When this option is checked, 4D databases are automatically created in a folder suffixed .4dbase. This parameter configures the default language used for character string processing and comparison in new databases. The language choice has a direct influence on the sorting and searching of text, as well as the character case, but it has no effect on the translation of texts or on the date, time or currency formats, which remain in the system language. By default (factory setting), 4D uses the current user language set in the system. Note: You can modify this parameter for the open database using the Database Settings (see Text comparison). This area configures access to the 4D HTML documentation displayed in the current browser:
You can choose to access the 4D on-line documentation site (4D Doc Center) directly or to access a static version that is stored locally. Indicates the location of the static HTML documentation. By default, this is the \Help\Command\language subfolder. You can view the location by clicking on the menu associated with the area. If this subfolder is not present, the location is shown in red. Note: For more information about downloading static HTML documentation, refer to the 4D Doc Center home page. URL access to the on-line documentation for the version on 4D Doc Center. 4D builds calls to the pages of the documentation based on this URL. You can modify it, for example if you want to display documentation in a different language from the application language. The test button to the right of the area launches the default browser to go to the URL specified. This option (checked by default) sets where 4D will look for the documentation page called using the Explorer or the F1 key.
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