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Version: 2025

Browser code (WLanguage): Framework 2
Starting with version 22, WEBDEV offers a new WLanguage framework for browser code...
Server code/Browser code
WEBDEV allows you to create static pages and dynamic pages...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
16. Types of code
Opens a replication in direct mode or with a replication server.
Global and local variable
Two types of variables are available...
Set of procedures
The global procedures are grouped in set of procedures...
Handling Context Menu controls programmatically
WEBDEV includes different WLanguage functions and properties to handle Context Menu controls programmatically......
OKCancel (Function)
Displays a message in a standard dialog box that proposes "OK" and "Cancel" and returns the user's choice....
Time (Type of variable)
The Time type is used to easily handle the times...
Communicating with the Web user
From now on, with the new Web technologies, the sites can look more like Windows applications and display dialog boxes......
Duration (Type of variable)
The Duration type enables you to easily handle the intervals of dates and times...
Rectangle (Type of variable)
A Rectangle variable is a structured type that is used to represent a rectangle (X, Y, Width, Height) in 2 dimensions.
Edit control properties
You can manipulate Edit controls in a window, page or report using the following WLanguage properties......
PageSubmit (Function)
Validates the specified page and starts the execution of a button.
Image control in a page
Upper (Function)
Converts all characters in a string to uppercase according to the region settings defined in Windows.
Description (Property)
The Description property is used to get and change the description of an element.
The Navigation Bar control
The Navigation Bar control is used to create a menu area that can easily adapt to the browser size......
dEndDrawing (Function)
Deletes all the drawings made since the last call to dStartDrawing.
Uploading files
Uploading consists in saving a file located on the user's computer to the Web server......
Choose the action of the button in a page
WEBDEV proposes several actions of the button on the controls of the page......
Preventing the use of the browser's "Back" button
If the browser "Back" button is used to display the previous page, this action will have no effect......
WEBDEV 2024: New WLanguage features
In version 27, new functions, properties and data types have been introduced and some have been improved......
Operators on character strings
The character strings can be handled by specific WLanguage functions or by the +, [[ and ]] operators......
PageUse (Function)
Displays a WEBDEV page in the user's browser and closes all page contexts currently open on the server....
Parallax effect
"Parallax" effects make it possible to scroll the elements in the interface at different speeds......
dText (Function)
Draws a text: in an Image control, in an Image variable, in a WDPic variable (on the background layer), in a picLayer variable....
Visible (Property)
The Visible property is used to: Find out whether an element is visible. Make an element visible or invisible....
13. Security benefit: managing the "Back" button
Check the "Responsive Web Design" pages
The pages in Responsive Web Design mode can be checked like any other WEBDEV page in the browser of your choice......
Native MySQL Connector: Specific features
The Native MySQL Connector (also called "Native MySQL Access") creates "InnoDB" tables to support locks and transactions on a MySQL database......