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Project functions
List of functions for managing projects
Associating documents with the project
To describe a project in detail, you can associate documents with it...
Testing a static project
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
Making a backup of a project
It is possible to regularly make a backup of the different elements of a project...
Project anomalies: dead code and orphan elements
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to easily detect these "dead codes" and "orphan" elements.
Project configuration
Project configurations allow you to adapt the same project to multiple "targets"...
Project image gallery
The project image gallery allows viewing all the images of a project in a single click...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
Importing elements into a project
All the elements of a project (windows, reports, classes, sets of procedures, queries...
Project Management Hub: Schedule management
The project contributors can manage their tasks directly from the schedule or from the task list...
Creating a Java project
WINDEV allows you to generate a Java application without even knowing the Java language...
Project elements
The project includes windows, reports, queries, help files, sets of procedures, ...
Cleaning the project
After months or years of development and maintenance, the directory of your project often contains several files that are not used anymore but that you don't dare delete...
Renaming a project
Renaming a project is used ton modify the name of the project. All the elements linked to the project before it is renamed are kept.
Project Management Hub: Presentation
The Project Management Hub is used to organize and schedule a project, from design to delivery...
Importing a WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile project and its elements
A WINDEV project and all its elements compatible with WINDEV Mobile (analysis, windows, classes, sets of procedures, queries, ...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Project with multiple analyses
A single WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile project can now use multiple analyses (data descriptions)...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Project comparator
Comparing two windows (two pages, two reports, two classes, ...
Organizing the directories of a project
When creating a project, a directory specific to this project is automatically created...
Project compilation: Warning, Error, Information, Programming standard...
When developing a project, the project is compiled on a regular basis.
Project dashboard
The project dashboard provides an overall view of project status via different widgets....
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Restoring a project backup
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to regularly save the different elements of your project in an archive file (ZIP extension)...
Events associated with the project
List of events associated with the project
Debugger: Step-by-step project execution
Running a project step-by-step allows you to start the debugger when launching the application...
Testing and debugging a project on the development computer
The test of the entire project allows you to simulate the start of the application with the executable...
Importing and consuming SOAP web services
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to directly import web services into your applications...
Creating an application that manages the Euro
The method for creating an application supporting the switch to the Euro is as simple as the method for creating a WINDEV application.
The "Favorites" pane
The "Favorites" pane gives direct access to the favorites of your project...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users...
Share your projects via Git
Git is a source code manager...
Managing pinned projects
The home window of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to manage the pinned projects when opening an existing project...
WINDEV Mobile: Platforms, processors and operating systems
WINDEV Mobile applications can run on the following platforms
Local procedure
Two types of procedures are available...
Code statistics
The code statistics affect...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
Testing a Mobile application
By testing the project you can simulate how the application will run when launched by the user...
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
Creating and deploying the installation program: How do you do it?
Creating the setup program allows you to deploy a WINDEV application on the end-user computers...
Automated tests on an executable
WINDEV allows you to test a project using the corresponding executable...
HOpenComplementaryAnalysis (Function)
Opens a new database schema, but keeps the main database schema of the application.
Debugging without using a debugger
In some cases, running a program or a site with or without the debugger can produce different results...
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products...
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file...
Custom-Folders
"Custom-Folders" simplify the organization of projects, allowing you to group the elements of your application by themes...
Window for quick selection
You are searching for a project element? You only know part of its name? Press [CTRL]+[E] to open the quick selection window...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Carrying over the differences from an element to another one
The project comparator is used to compare two elements and to list the differences found...
FishEye
The "FishEye" effect is used to enlarge a section of editor graphs (analysis graph, UML graph, ...
Test of a WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile application
WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile feature multiple methods to test applications...
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
Generating an Android application
The generation of a WINDEV Mobile application for Android groups all project elements (windows,...
WINDEV applications for Linux: Specific features
External language: Programming in C#
We are going to call the elements developed in WINDEV (project, windows, analysis, ......
Software Factory
The concept of software factory is used to automate the process for creating applications....
Preset page templates
and they also improve the re-usability and the graphic harmony between the projects......
Creating an SCM repository
To share a project via the Source Code Manager, a repository must be created......
How to create a patch?
Describe a WEBDEV style
of your WEBDEV project......
Using Java code
You can use Java code: in Java applications generated with WINDEV. in Android applications...
1. Windows generated using the RAD methodology
The RAD (Rapid Application Development) is used to create windows from......
Convert your WINDEV applications into websites
A widespread need today is to transform Windows applications (or parts of applications)...
Signature of iOS applications
Signing an application is mandatory from Xcode 8......
Live Data: viewing data in the editors
The "Live Data" is used to view the content of the data files in the controls currently created...
Available features and specific features of Java
WINDEV allows you to generate a Java application without even knowing the Java language......
Properties available in Java
WINDEV allows you to generate a Java application without even knowing the Java language......
.NET object
To access a class......
InComponentMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run: from a WINDEV application, a WEBDEV site or a PHP page....
Performance profiler
The performance profiler (also called Profiler) is used to check and optimize the execution time...
Analyzing dependencies and orphan images
To help you manage the navigation of the Web users in your sites, an advanced feature for analyzing...
Internal component description
The description of an internal component can opened at any time......
18. Management of business rules
Multilingual messages: Convert to new format (version 27 and later)
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile have included multilingual project support in many previous...
"Unit examples" pane
The "Unit examples" pane proposes the unit examples found in the different products......
21. Managing business rules
Managing business rules...