Tech Tip: Shortcut to View Form Object Information During Form Execution
PRODUCT: 4D | VERSION: 15.x | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: January 12, 2017
In the Design Environment when running a form, it may be helpful to have some information on a form object without having to access the debugger.
On Mac and Windows holding down Control+Shift then hover over the object with the mouse cursor with generate a help tip. The tip provides the Object's Name, Coordinates, and Associated Variable. This does not work for all objects such as specific parts of a list box or text objects.
Doing the action above will generate a help tip similar to the following:
This can be useful to track object variable reassignments, tracking coordinates of objects being moved around, and even track duplication of objects without needing to trigger the debugger.