B4J Tutorials

[B4X] External Editors

Short one.

You can configure the IDE to show a list of external file editors. The list shows when you right click on a file in the Files tab...
 
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[B4X] Modules, Files, Groups and Folders

The latest IDE update adds support for grouping files and modules.

Groups



You can add groups with a right click...
 
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[ABMaterial] Custom Component Shiny Knob

Objectives
Create an ABM custom component for a shiny knob control.



Notes
* This is the authors first...
 
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Accordion container



The Accordion container (added in B4J v5.0) is a container similar to TabPane. It holds TitledPanes. These are panes with titles.

Using the accordion is quite simple. Add the...
 

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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 13 - Pricing Calculator Basics - What To Consider

Hello Fellow Noobers!

This is a quick high-level tutorial to go over the pricing of VMs and some things for consideration.

GCE has A LOT of services to offer and each service has a fee (this is...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 12 - Static vs Ephemeral IP Addresses

‘Static’? ‘Ephemeral’? What the heck am I talking about? It sounds like something from the Ghostbusters movie with references to the Key Master, Gate Keeper and my old pal Zuul!

Going back to...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 11 - Firewall

If you have gotten this far then you have already tried to access your web app or socket app from your desktop and discovered that nothing seems to be working. This is almost certainly due to a...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 9 - Running Your B4J App

Update: 05 Nov 2017 - Included a section at the end to explain how to access your app from outside of the VM.

Congratulations! You’re at Tutorial 9 and you’re now ready to run your B4J app...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 8 - Installing A B4J Console App

For security reasons GCP will not allow plain old FTP access to their servers. But, they do offer a nice alternative to copying files from your desktop and onto your VM. It’s a bit like using...
 

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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 7 - Changing MariaDB root Password

After installing the MariaDB database we need to change the password for the root user. If the password is not changed then anyone could log into your database do what they like to it.

We’ll do...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 5 - Installing the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Okay fellow Noobs, we’re at the point where we want to run our superduper fabulistic world changing app. We will need to have the Java Runtime installed on the VM instance. This requires running a...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 4 - Connecting To Your Virtual Machine

Doing something useful with your VM instance requires that you connect to it. By that I mean opening a console window that you can use to execute commands or start/stop services. To open a console...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 3 - Creating an Empty Virtual Machine

We’re now ready to start creating virtual machines that will be used to host our B4J application/s. We’ll be creating a small VM in this tutorial.

On the left side of the screen, in our...
 
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[GCE] For Noobs, Part 2 - Creating a Google Cloud Platform Account

This is the most difficult and most time consuming part of the whole process!

Actually, it’s not time consuming at all. However, you must already have a Google Account. If you don’t already have...
 
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[ABMaterial] Themes Quick Reference

Ola there

I have been thinking of a name for the ABMaterial framework fans. ABMaterialians! ha ha ha! That's long. ABMatians, sounds cool, I could be wrong though...

Anyway, as part of my...
 

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PDF creation (with the help of Android)

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[ABMaterial] Speed preview in 3.81!

ABMaterial has always been one of the fastest RADs from its start, now over 2 years ago. And this dispite being a very big library. But with 3.81 (4.0?), we'll take it to a whole new level...
 
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[Pen&Paper]: ABMaterial Stats

As part of my ABMaterial explorer tendencies, I delved on working on a dashboard that will give stats about the previous and latest version of ABMaterial. This is based on 3.5 and 3.75 libraries...
 
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[WebApp] Chatroom - Threads, Sessions and Server events

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Msgbox / InputList

Simple message box:
B4X: 
fx.Msgbox(MainForm, "This is the message", "This is the title")


Message box with result:
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