All Products 17 R5 - Fixed bugs

Reference Summary Fixed also with
ACI0097617 Incorrect tooltip on 'Service Principal Name' info ; in Database Settings, Client-Server tab, Network options part. 17.1
ACI0097745 4D 64-bit doesn't support correctly the slash character ("/") in a path or in a file/directory name. 17 R4 17.1
ACI0097749 4D does not start when the date and numbers format is set to " French (New Caledonia) " localization. This problem is fixed only for 64-bit application. 17.1 HF2
ACI0097987 The commands 'WA OPEN URL' replaces "/" with "%5C" when using a from the disk ("file:////" in url). 17 R4 17.1
ACI0098160 'Get system info' command returns different values for the property 'osVersion', depending of the system localization: some word are translated. It's better to have some information that works for all localization. 17.1 HF2
ACI0098168 Printing listBox with row heights set to 0 may crash 4D. 17.1 16.4 HF1
ACI0098288 Quick report: Error #9852 appears when showing a pop-up window (Adding summary calculations), in the Subtotal row. 17 R4
ACI0098325 Set of attributes cannot be used in one call of 'WP SET ATTRIBUTES': it brings compilation error, or doesn't work. For instance, "wk font size" and "wk font family", or "wk tab stop offsets" and "wk tab stop types", or "wk width" and "wk height", etc ...
ACI0098426 Executing SQL LOGIN twice makes 4D 64-bit quit when connecting to MySQL server with MySQL ODBC Driver 8.0.11 (no issue with Driver version 5.3)
ACI0098493 When an operation takes more than 3 seconds, 4D ORDA methods doesn’t display the progress bar indicator ; for a query, sort, or any other operations on data. 17.1
ACI0098505 During an auto-update on a build application set as a Windows service, 'old' folders are not deleted properly. 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0098573 Despite a font color assignment on a cell with 4D View, when open the document with 4D View Pro, the font color is black. 17 R4
ACI0098621 'QUERY WITH ARRAY' returns wrong results if database language is Japanese and ICU is set to use string matching for search. 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0098697 Resizing a collapsed Explorer windows mays bring an unexpected behaviour of the window when resizing it or expanding it. 16.5 17.1 HF1
ACI0098765 The Japanese conversion window stays visible after validating Japanese input directly in the structure editor. 17.1 HF1
ACI0098802 Impossible to save a report fromt the Quick Report editor with a 64-bit standalone application (Engined application) 17.2 HF1
ACI0098813 Quick Reports (64-bit): adding fields columns in the report design template didn't update the "Report columns list" (button "fields") with the included columns. 17.1
ACI0098848 Pictures are not correctly converted from View to 4D View PRO 17 R4
ACI0098862 Problem to get the focus on a field is in a subform at the first attempt. Client/Server mode only. 17.1
ACI0098939 'WA Evaluate JavaScript' is too much slow with integrated web engine (compare to system web engine). 64-bit application, macOS X only. 17.1 HF1
ACI0098951 When double-clicking on a record through an Output form of a subform, an unexpected error arises if there is no Input form defined. The Input form by default for the table must be used. 17.1 HF1
ACI0098961 4D crashes by click on a HTML-SelectBox in Blink-Embedded-Engine. Mac platform only, 64-bit application.
ACI0098972 Some bullets created with 4D Write are not converted correctly with 4D Write Pro. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0098996 4D quits unexpectedly when, inside a 4D web area, you reach a html form that uses html "<select>" tag element
ACI0098999 A syntax with nothing between parent parenthesis may not work. Like " Method1().test_formula() "; whereas " Method1.test_formula() " works.
ACI0099003 If a text edit object hidden during 'On Display Detail' is set to visible in 'On Load Record', only the borders are displayed. The content remains hidden. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099004 In a list form, a text edit object is unexpectedly hidden during 'On Display Detail' if it is set to non-enterable. 17 R4 17.1
ACI0099006 Clicking twice on the top of a window to maximize it brings the window behind the Windows system toolbar if there is a fixed width (or height) in the form. In SDI mode only.
ACI0099009 Bad printing of a PDF document when printed from 4D Server 64-bit as a Windows service. 17.1
ACI0099030 When several type of format is associated to a 4D Write expression, the wrong one is chosen with 4D Write Pro (just the first one is taken into account). 17 R4 17.1
ACI0099061 Quick report 64-bit: Changing Text alignment doesn't work for columns. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099065 When using the 'PRINT LABEL' command in 4D 64 bit the command can print beyond the dimensions of the label and/or page. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099069 ORDA '.get' may not reflect latest save record in Client-Server mode. 17.1
ACI0099077 When an embedded image is anchored to the bottom, selection handles can be displayed at the wrong location after text modification. 17 R4 17.1
ACI0099091 When saving a Write Pro document just after using the command 'ST FREEZE EXPRESSIONS', the font size may be is lost for expressions. 16.4 HF1 17.1 HF1
ACI0099098 4D Write Pro: Underlined tabulation characters are no more showed underlined when the option to display hidden signs is on. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099099 When appending an image to the header of a 4D Write Pro document, the document is not immediatly refreshed
ACI0099101 No more transparent background after converting a 4D Write document to 4D Write Pro. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099106 Sheet tabs may disappear after the execution of some 4D View Pro commands (For instance: 'VP NEW DOCUMENT').
ACI0099107 In Interpreted mode, a not yet defined form variable of type 'String' (typed from Property list palette), bound to a choice list', if considered by default as a variable of type 18 (Text array) instead of 5 (undefined). 17.1 HF1
ACI0099110 'SET CHANNEL' command returns error -28 when the baud rate is less than 3600. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099112 Executing the command 'SET MENU BAR' with the star parameter while a modal window is shown (ALERT,CONFIRM or QR REPORTcommand...), menu commands may be unexpectedly disabled. 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0099114 The symbol '&' not allowed in constant names. The constant 'TIFF JBIGB&W', invalid, need to be replaced by another name. 17.1
ACI0099118 Quick report 64-bit: Use of custom html-templates not working. 17 R4 17.1 HF2
ACI0099123 'entitySelection.add( )' can fail in client/server when used 'with entity.indexOf( )'. Same problem with 'entitySelection.minus()'. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099130 The insertion cursor may take time to appear after double-clicking in a cell of 4D View Pro document.
ACI0099131 [Write Pro] - Inline image inside paragraph is not copied when the paragraph is copied
ACI0099135 'HTTP Get' command called with a text variable as receiver didn't remove the presence of the BOM character. 17.1
ACI0099139 4D Write Pro area content is not saved in Client/Server ORDA mode.
ACI0099144 The 4D command 'OBJECT DUPLICATE' doesn't respect the grouping with radio buttons. 17.1
ACI0099145 Setting a font color on a text in listbox header doesn't work on macOs 10.14.x (Mojave); the color is always black. 17 R4
ACI0099153 Using 'Open form window' on a 2nd screen, then using 'SET WINDOW RECT', may result in opening an invisible window. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099160 The command 'Pop up menu' ignores the 'default' argument on Windows system. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099164 'On Mouse Move' event does not fire over 'Popup form window' unless mouse button is pressed. Windows system only. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099165 Create an entity selection through a relation attribute may not work after using a '.newSelection()' and a '.add()' ; client-server mode only. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099179 A paragraph get badly justified if an expression at the begining of the text returned an empty string; it displays and prints badly. No problem with 4D Write.
ACI0099182 4D for iOS create labels with field names splitted by space characters, whereas for Japanese there is no notion of words separated by a space. 17 R4
ACI0099185 'OBJECT Get name' called from a 4D View Pro cell (thanks to a method) doesn't return the current 4D View Pro area name. 17 R4
ACI0099186 Concatenation of date with an other value does not work correctly after conversion from 4D view to 4D view Pro. 17 R4
ACI0099187 Crash while compiling if there is more than 32000 items (methods + table + forms + ...) in the database. 17.1 HF1 16.5 HF1
ACI0099195 4D View Pro: Styles informations can be lost during the conversion from a 4D View document (Color, background, font size...). 17 R4
ACI0099198 Compiler error "unbalanced parenthesis" produces unreasonable results (unexpected errors).
ACI0099199 The 4D View Pro area becomes white after using the command 'VP NEW DOCUMENT'. 17 R4
ACI0099202 4D Write Pro bullet list with custom bullets are not changeable after conversion from 4D Write. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099204 3D buttons, 3D radio buttons and 3D checkboxes button with 'Bbvelish' style doesn't change when you click on it. on macOS 10.14.x only (Mojave). 17 R4
ACI0099205 Date cells and Time cells, after converted from 4D View to 4D View Pro, become respectively a string cell and a numeric cell. 17 R4
ACI0099207 Unexpected compilation error on the 4D command 'New formula' use with a parameter $1 when the compilation option is "All variables are typed". 17 R4
ACI0099217 Unexpected error when updating old records through Wakanda. It depends of the data, especially those created with previous 4D versions (before v15 and before). 17.1 HF1
ACI0099228 Quick report "Cross Table" doesn't show the correct "SUM" of times. 17.2
ACI0099229 If no network connection and, later on, the connection is back with 4D, all http requests fail with error #30 instead of working successfully after a while. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099231 Conversion from 4D Write to 4D Write Pro: text in 'Small-caps' maybe converted into CAPITAL letters. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099232 Bad text color conversion from a 4D Write document to a 4D Write Pro document. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099237 Picture display formats "On Background" and "Truncated Non-Centered" exported to JSON files were incorrectly interpreted at runtime. 17 R4
ACI0099252 Incorrect font size and cell height when converting a 4D View document to 4D View Pro one. 17 R4
ACI0099253 Quick Report: When generating a file, an unexpected dialog "Generating Dialog" prevents any interaction with the application because of its window type. 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0099257 The constant "ak none" is not taken into account with the 4D command 'OBJECT SET ACTION'; the command does nothing. 17 R4
ACI0099258 Passing an invalid path for the command Verify data file causes crash
ACI0099259 Executing dataClass.fromCollection() method without parameter leads 4D to a crash instead of showing an error. 17 R4
ACI0099262 The Swedish letters like "Å", "Ä", ... are not well displayed in the shortcut menu; they are mapped as A (instead of the letter set for the menu item). 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0099264 Clicking from an application to another, leaving the mouse button pressed, you can move the window. But when clicking on 4D application, you have to release the button and click again to move a 4D windows. Only in SDI mode (Single-Document Interface). 17.1 HF2
ACI0099265 Windows Splash Screen visible during startup in SDI mode. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099272 No cursor is displayed to indicate precisely the drop location in a 4D Write Pro area when dragging a text. 17 R4 17.1 HF1
ACI0099273 4D Write Pro cannot Drag and Drop into header or footer. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099283 Quickly closing many processes crashes 4D Remote when using 'SET MENU BAR'. No problem with 4D in single-user mode. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099291 When a web area has the "Use embedded Web rendering engine" setting unchecked, 'WA Evaluate Javascript' will interpret \r and \n literally which causes the javascript code to not execute. 17.1 HF1
ACI0099294 Because of a 'Begin SQL - End SQL' code in a method, the Compiler shows a wrong line number when there is a compilation error. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099295 If the 'Startup Environment' option is "Application", and the "Splash screen" is unchecked for 'Display Windows' option, you need to execute twice the menu command "Go to design mode" to make it work. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099307 Position command is slower whend searching for one character
ACI0099309 When exporting ALPHA or TEXT field to DBF format, the exported content is truncated to 15 characters with 4D 64-bit; whereas it is 80 characters on 32-bit. The fix done pushes now the limit to 128 characters for 64-bit application. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099312 Dragging listbox elements from one listbox to another no longer show the mouse cursor attached to the "+" icon. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099320 Let a text input area object with a height of 1 line in v16. After converting to v17, the descender height of the object is incorrect and may erase close form object. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099322 A listbox of collection type doesn't show the items added
ACI0099326 Write Pro Links are lost when underlined; they become unclickable
ACI0099329 If the 2 first parameters (of Blob type) are not declared properly for the 4D command 'GENERATE CERTIFICATE REQUEST', its execution leads to a crash. An error should be generated instead. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099337 Unexpected error when converting a 4D View document that contains picture to a 4D View Pro document. 17 R4
ACI0099338 With SDI mode for Windows, there is a problem with the menu bar.
ACI0099345 The line height of a listbox in JSON form is always 20 per 1em, regardless of the font size. 17 R4
ACI0099357 Let a background color applied for several columns and rows on 4D View document. After a conversion to 4D View Pro, the background color is lost for the last column and last row. 17 R4
ACI0099359 Let only 'Dragable' and 'Dropable' properties for a text input object, with the event 'On Begin Drag Over' chosen. You can't select the text with the mouse because of the unexpected triggering of the "On Begin Drag Over" event. 17.1 HF2 16.5 HF1
ACI0099379 4D View Pro doesn't manage invisible cell as the plugin 4D View used to. Thus, it has been decided to remove the style "visible=False" from a converted document.
ACI0099386 4D Write Pro: Converted document does no more display reference for anchored picture. 17 R4
ACI0099389 When a style sheet has the attribute 'underline', this attribute is not applied when the style sheet is applied to another range.
ACI0099393 Let a picture property that states to display a picture on some pages (not all) of a 4D Write document. After a conversion to 4D Write Pro, the picture appears on all pages. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099404 Especially during a data convertion, deleting an index after just building it may lead 4D to a crash if some pages are still in the flush tree, and if the index type has changed between the data and the structure file. 17.2 HF1
ACI0099409 A freeze could occurred after the use of the command "VP Convert from 4D View" when a 4D view document was corrupted for unknown reason.
ACI0099449 Reduce header then body size with vertical ruler results in wrong positions. This does only happen with a converted document from old 4D Write.
ACI0099476 4D Write Pro justification problem: a text with direction from right to left (such as Arabic text) is not aligned to the right anymore. It is aligned to the left. 17.2
ACI0099485 entity.touched() return true for object field in Client/ServerMode even if this one is affected to an object (variable or field) not belonging to the dataclass. 17.1 HF2
ACI0099501 'APPEND MENU ITEM' causes a crash when appending to non existent menu bar.
ACI0099505 The check box "TabStrip" in 4D View Pro works inversely with a document converted from 4D View.
ACI0099524 In the Administration window, part 'Processes', when selecting the line of a 'preemptive worker', it shows a non-localized text : ":xliff:MONI_PROCESS_Type39 - (process name)". 17.2 17 R6 16.6
ACI0099527 When exporting a 4D Write Pro document to word, unexepected blue lines appear in the word document.
ACI0099534 collection.sort() method doesn’t work well on Client/Server for attributes of type time when using transactions.
ACI0099536 In 64-bit mode, Quick Report ignore column separator other then 'tab'. A change in settings is not applied. 17.2
ACI0099544 When applying a format to a field of type 'real' in the label editor, only the first record is printed. 17.2 HF1
ACI0099551 4D application may go to an error unexpectedly if you quit the application immediately after displaying 4D Welcome wizard.
ACI0099557 When the web server of 4D sends a web page with a <link> tag towards a css file inside, 4D crashes if the web page is asked several times. On Windows system only.
ACI0099620 The mode 'Can be run in preemptive processes' is unexpectedly deactivated if the option 'Use legacy network layer' is checked.
ACI0099634 The check boxes "Vertical Gridline"and "Horizontal Gridline" in 4D View Pro work inversely with a document converted from 4D View.
ACI0099636 The subject of a mail sent with 'SMTP New transporter' is unexpectedly separated in chunks with invisible characters between.
ACI0099638 The subject of a mail sent with the command SMTP New transporter is unexpectedly transformed: a chunk of the subject is repeated two times.
ACI0099641 The conversion of a 4D View file that contains data with "###0 days" format to a 4D view Pro file generates wrong result
ACI0099642 The default size of a 4D View converted file has been reduced (from 100Column/1000row to 20Column/100 row). This improve the conversion time to 4D View Pro, especially when the converted file is small or empty, and when it has style applied to every cell.
ACI0099657 ORDA 'IN' query on object field returns false value for Japanese search and text comparison.
ACI0099659 Server can crash while indexing when a “recover by record header” was performed with MSC. 17.2
ACI0099661 A shared form of a component is not visible from the subform container of a host project database.
ACI0099675 Using the Quick report' with 4D 64-bit, when applying a format for a calculated column, the formula of this column is lost. 17.2 HF1
ACI0099676 entitySelection.query() doesn't work well in C/S mode on 1->N relations when using collections
ACI0099689 4D can't be launched (crash) on macOS Catalina (macOS 10.15.x). 17.2 HF1
ACI0099693 4D crashes when trying to use, via a relateEntities kind attribute, a relateEntity kind attribute of an empty entity selection.
ACI0099700 entitySelection.query() with more than one search criteria doesn't work well in C/S mode on 1->N relations when using collections.
ACI0099718 ORDA in client-server mode: if an entity's related attribute is changed and saved, the related attribute becomes undefined. entity.reload() will not refresh it.
ACI0099719 if an entity is loaded, and the corresponding record is updated via the classic language, entity.reload() will not refresh the entity in client-server mode. 17.3
ACI0099773 Drag and Drop doesn't work after setting the text object property to Automatic Drag and Automatic drop, and unsetting 'Draggable' and 'Droppable' options. 17 R6 16.6 17.2 HF1
ACI0099777 Engined Server built with the option "Use new architecture for application deployments" unchecked (in Settings dialog, "Compatibility :Deployment") neve remind the path of the last data file after startup. 17 R6
ACI0099794 Unexpected filenames inside 4D applications (like 4D Volume Desktop) contains "%" character in the name, which may disturb the use of installer software (like Wise). 17 R6
ACI0099803 When deleting a form page, if then the following page displayed has a listbox, a crash could appear. That problem appears since the v17 R5 (238362), only in beta session then. 17 R6
ACI0099817 'Current user' returns an empty string instead of the current user name when executed on 4D Server. 17 R6
ACI0099844 Using ORDA language (Object Relational Data Access) in a loop to access an entity through several levels of relations may lead to an unexpected error message. Client/Server mode only. 17 R6
ACI0099869 The 'WEB CLOSE SESSION' command no longer close the session designated by the session ID, and the database event 'On Web Close Process' is not triggered. 17 R6
ACI0099431 Commands "OCILobGetLength", "OCILobWrite" and "OCILobRead" return -2 (invalid handle) for CLOB Oracle data type when ran 64-bit applications (No problem on 32-bit). 17.2