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4D Inc. Plug-ins

4D Backup Free!: 4D Backup lets you automatically back up a 4D database.
4D Internet Commands Free!: 4D Internet Commands gives developers access to many key elements of the Internet. Including email functionality with SMTP, POP, and IMAP commands, FTP commands, and low-level TCP commands.
4D Pack Free!: The 4D Pack plug-in provides 4D developers with useful additional routines. Often routines in 4D Pack are later integrated into 4D itself.

Third Party Plug-ins

4D Toolbox Free!: 4D Toolbox is a free 4th Dimension plug-in with various routines, you might find useful.
API Pack Free!: API Pack is a free 4D plug-in with more than 50 commands that gives you access to features that are only available through the 4D Plug-in API. It gives you access to the internals of 4D and allows you to procedurally retrieve and manipulate native 4D objects; doing things like creating your own method explorer or retrieving the text of project methods.
BLOB Manager Free!: BLOB Manager enhances the BLOB handling capabilities of 4D. BLOB Manager's 19 commands provide full support for BLOB arrays, on 4D Server and Client annd commands to pack and unpack record data into BLOBs; useful for ultra-fast data import/export or database synchronization.
ClockPak Free!: ClockPak lets you set the system clock from program code.
Embedded Applescript Free!: Write an applescript, compile it, use ResEdit to stuff it into the resource fork of the CallAS.4DX plug-in. You will then be able to call it in a very simple way from your 4D code, transfer parameters from the 4D code to the applescript, and receive a return value. It's like calling a subroutine written in applescript code.
EVX_LANG Free!: EVX_LANG lets you know the current user's default language.
Expat4D Free!: Expat4D is a 4D plug-in version of the popular XML parser expat by James Clark. Like expat, it is a completely, freeware, open-source project. XML documents of any size can be parsed from text and BLOB variables, including parsing in 32k chunks.
Final Touch Free!: Final Touch was originally created to provide a way to close windows in 4D using Command-W. It worked by patching the Macintosh Toolbox to intercept the Command-W keyboard press, and it then clicked the front-most window's close box for you.
Find By Content Pack Free!: Find By Content Pack is a free 4D plug-in that allows you to integrate your 4D application with the Macintosh Find By Content (FBC) technology. This plug-in allows you to get access to features like searching on the content of documents, retrieving relevancy and keyword information from documents and summarizing long texts to a few sentences.
FontInstaller Free!: lets you install fonts from your 4D application, and for Windows, lets you embed fonts in your application (in the Win4DX folder) so that they need not be installed at all.
G.M.A Free!: G.M.A is a free plug-in for 4D that enables you to get the MAC (Media Access Control) address(es) of NIC(s) in your computer.
Keychain Manager Pack Free!: Keychain Manager Pack is a free 4D plug-in that allows you to integrate your 4D application with the Macintosh Keychain Manager. The Keychain Manager is a central repository that allows users to store user names and passwords for different services such as applications, file servers and web sites. This plug-in gives you features like storing and retrieving login information for your application.
PDFViewer Free!: PDFViewer will let you display pdf documents under control of your application. The pdf will be displayed in an own, topmost, modal window which looks exactly like the way pdf is displayed within Internet Explorer or Netscape (it's the same ActiveX control). It won't let you integrate the pdf area on a 4D form, but it will still give much tighter control than if you just launch Acrobat Reader and leaves the rest to the user.
PictPdf Free!: PictPdf uses the built-in pdf engine of OS X Quartz drawing, to save any 4D picture variable as a page of a pdf document.
Random Number Generator Free!: Generates random numbers.
Win32API Plug-in Free!: Win32API lets your Windows applications take advantage of Windows-specific features that are not exposed by native 4th Dimension commands. Win32API lets you set a custom icon for any window, change the name of your 4D application in the title bar and task bar, customize file open and save dialogs, get information from the Regional Settings control panel, and much more.