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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...
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...
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.
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.
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
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, ...
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
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, ...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
Project compilation: Warning, Error, Information, Programming standard...
When developing a project, the project is compiled on a regular basis.
Testing a static project
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
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)...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Custom-Folders
"Custom-Folders" simplify the organization of projects, allowing you to group the elements of your application by themes...
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
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...
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Automated tests on an executable
WINDEV allows you to test a project using the corresponding executable...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file...
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...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products...
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...
Android In-App configuration
A specific configuration is required to manage the In-App purchases in an Android application......
The Internal Page control
...The "Internal Page" control is used to include a page (and its code) in a control of another...
Characteristics of the columns of a Table control in a page
The columns are used to display information in a Table control....
Managing geolocation and GPS
WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV allow you to exploit geolocation and GPS features found on mobile devices...
Phone constants (Android / iOS)
Custom telemetry
Custom telemetry allows you to define the elements that will be included in the analytics......
Image catalog
As soon as an image can be used (in a control, in a window, in a report, ......
Overloading a WLanguage function or using a WLanguage function in an SQL query
WLanguage includes the "WL" keyword......
Guided Tour
A Guided Tour presents a series of features, displayed in a tooltip in the current window...
3. Deploying a WINDEV application
Installing Android development tools
To develop Android applications with WINDEV Mobile, you must install......
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
WDTrans: Overview
WDTrans is a tool for canceling transactions......
TmeLine control linked to a data file or variable
You can create TimeLine controls directly linked to the data....
Managing the critical sections
Semaphores are used to limit the simultaneous execution of a code (procedure, line of code, etc....
WEBDEV administrator: Installed Webservices
The "Webservices" tab gives information about the dynamic WEBDEV Webservices installed...
MDL file (kept for backward compatibility): Window description
The MDL file is the file used to generate a RAD window......
eDefaultViewCurrency (Function)
Identifies or modifies the display currency used by default.
SQLTable (Function)
Transfers the result of a query to a Table control populated programmatically (a List Box or Combo...
WDSQL, SQL querier: Overview
WDSQL is used to......
Handling data files in PHP
WEBDEV allows you to create a PHP site that handles data files......
Step 2: Creating print fonts
This step allows you to define and choose the different fonts that will be used in the printed...
Looper: moves and gestures
In a mobile application, several options can be handled with the fingers, by performing specific...
6. Printing the product catalog
WINDEV Mobile Tutorial - Developing an Android and iOS application Lesson 6 - Printing the product...
Brochure of new features: New WINDEV features
New features in WINDEV 28 presented in the New Features brochure....