Tips & Tricks: Going full screen with control add-ins in BC150
Long time no see here, for I don't know which time. That's how it is these days, life kicks in, work kicks in, stuff kicks in, and then time flies…
Codeunit interfaces in AL
Nearly two and a half years ago I had a dream. It was about codeunit references and codeunit interfaces. And today, nearly two and a half years later I am still here, still having the same dream. We still cannot do codeunit interfaces in AL. But it doesn’t mean we don’t need them. We do. We badly do.
Two things triggered me to write this post about how badly we need codeunit interfaces, or any kind of polymorphism: a NAV TechDays talk, and a github project I saw.
Extending the HTML trick: using actual images
Eric Sevareid famously said that the chief cause of problems is solutions. The same applies to the HTML trick I blogged about yesterday. As soon as you solve the problem of using HTML directly in your control add-ins, another problem arises: what do you do with actual images your control add-in includes?
This post explains how to solve that problem, and how to make it possible for your control add-in to both use HTML for defining UI and use relative control add-in paths to images.
Let’s dig in.
Encapsulation in JavaScript
This will be my last post in the “JavaScript for (C/)AL Developers” series today. If I continued blogging about nearly pure JavaScript stuff, you could reasonably ask if this is in fact an NAV blog or a JavaScript one. It’s still NAV, and while the stuff I am about to write about is purely a JavaScript concept, I find it highly relevant for any control add-in developer. So, hold my beer, and bear with me for another one.
One of the complaints I often hear about JavaScript is that in JavaScript there is no encapsulation. This is almost completely true, except for the fact that it’s entirely false.
Where is the problem in the first place, and then what is the solution? Let’s dive in.
Some more thoughts about trampling over $
I am on a spree today. The number of topics I wanted to blog about has accumulated, and I just decided to dump the stuff over here while I both…