4th D1987 Changes Enhancements

4th DimensionTM Changes and Enhancements This document describes changes and enhancements since the manuals were printed . Topics that are covered include : Errata to the manuals Changes and Enhancements to 4th Dimension Creating Included Layouts The 4D xRefUtility The 4D External MoverTM (replaces 4D Mover) The new 4D Customizer' T" ©1987 Acius Errata Programmer's Reference page 94 lines 29 and 35, Sentence should be vSentence . Programmer's Reference page 103 line 6, (Name) should be (Last Name) . Command Reference page 255 table F-3,12 and 13 in the table should be exchanged . Changes and enhancements This section describes changes and enhancements to 4th Dimension TM version 1 .0 . Numeric formats The list of default numeric formats has been changed for both the Format of field and the Format of variable dialog boxes . The new formats are now set to format numbers up to one million . Of course, the formats can be modified to your needs at any time . Since some of the formats are longer, the format text area for the two dialog boxes has been expanded to two lines . Figure 1 shows the new Format of field dialog box . Format of field . . . Format : Fieldl Q ### ##j Fieldl R Field3 Field4 P ~ #a0 ## *#0 .00 ***,**0 .00 ;***,**O .00- **~,~*0 ;(*~*,~~0 .00) ***,*#0 .00 ;***,**0 .00CR * * *, * *0 .00DO ; * x *, 11 1 O .OOCR ;0 .00 $***,**O .OO ;-$'S**,**0 .00 $***,*#0 .00 ;$***,**O .oa- $111,110 .00 •$ 111110 , .00CR $***,**0 .00 ; VOID $AAA~AAA . 00 ;$ , A .00- AA .00 ; ; ($4 f • .00) Cancel OK Figure 1 Format of field dialog 1 In the Tutorial on page 68, step 10 instructs you to add another # to the format . This is no longer necessary because of the new formats . References : Tutorial pages 66-69,127 User's Guide pages 98,107 Scientific notation Scientific notation is now supported . Numbers can be entered with a positive or negative exponent . For example, 1,000,000 could be entered as 1e6 or 1e+6 and .001 could be entered as le-3 . Range of dates Dates are now handled as Macin…