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Version: 2025

Report based on a text file
In a report based on a text file, the information to print is read from a text file or is directly assigned in the report controls...
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
User Groupware functions
Handling the external files
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV propose several functions allowing you to manage the external files from your WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile applications or from your WEBDEV sites...
Print modes of a report
Several print modes are available for a report.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
<DiskFile variable>.Write (Function)
Writes:
  • a character string to an external file.
  • a memory section.
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
fSaveText (Function)
Creates and fills a text file with the content of a text control or text variable (string variable, edit control in a window, Static Text control in a report, ...).
fBuildRelativePath (Function)
Returns the path to a file relative to a reference directory.
fChangeExtension (Function)
Changes the extension of a file on disk.
fWatchStopAll (Function)
Stops all current watch tasks of files and directories.
Result of a query in test mode
After its execution in test mode (see Running the query test), the result of the query can be...
fWatchFile (Function)
Starts watching a file.
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
fWatchStop (Function)
Stops watching a file or directory.
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
VolumePhysicalButton (Function)
Identifies or modifies the sound source associated with the physical buttons used to set the volume of the device.
GanttGetTask (Function)
Gets a task using its identifier in a Gantt Chart column in a Table or TreeView Table control.
UsefulWidth (Property)
The UsefulWidth property is used to get and change the useful width of an internal window (or supercontrol) with scrollbars.
ButtonType (Property)
The ButtonType property is used to get and change the type of a Button control: Cancelation, Interruption, Validation, ...
UsefulHeight (Property)
The UsefulHeight property is used to get and change the useful height of an internal window (or supercontrol) with scrollbars.
DocStartModification (Function)
Signals the start of grouping for a set of operations on a document in a single event (management of "undo/redo")....
SecondaryMessage (Property)
The SecondaryMessage property is used to get and change the secondary message displayed below the primary message of the notification.
PrintedSheet (Property)
Within a report, the PrintedSheet property is used to get and change the sheet of a Spreadsheet control to be printed.
SelectionLength (Property)
The SelectionLength property is used to get and change the length of the selection made in a Word Processing control.
<PDF Reader>.SeekPrevious (Function)
Sets the position on the previous result of a search started with PDFReaderSeekFirst in the content of a PDF Reader control.
PDFReaderSeekPrevious (Function)
Sets the position on the previous result of a search started with PDFReaderSeekFirst in the content of a PDF Reader control.
URL (Property)
The URL property is used to: Get the address associated with a control. Change the address associated with a control....
<Chart>.Rotation (Function)
Turns a Surface or Pyramid chart around one of its axes in order to better view the data
<Connection variable>.ListStoredElement (Function)
Returns the list of elements stored on an HFSQL server (sets of procedures, stored procedures or queries).
Opacity (Property)
The Opacity property is used to get and define the opacity percentage for a window, or for controls in a window or page.
BackgroundImageState (Property)
The BackgroundImageState property allows you to get and change the number of drawings in the image associated with the background of a button.
AnimationPeriod (Property)
The AnimationPeriod property is used to get and modify rotation speed of the animation in the Cube or Carousel controls.
HListStoredElement (Function)
Returns the list of elements stored on an HFSQL server (sets of procedures, stored procedures or queries).
AttributeNote (Property)
The AttributeNote property gets the value of the <Note> extension attribute.
AttributeMapping (Property)
The AttributeMapping property gets the value of the <Mapping> extension attribute.
WINDEV Mobile 2024: New features in this version
Here are the new features that you will discover in this version......
WINDEV Mobile 2024
WINDEV Mobile 28 is available!...
<Gantt chart>.GetTask (Function)
Gets a task using its identifier in a Gantt Chart column in a Table or TreeView Table control.
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....
DisplayedItemImage (Property)
The DisplayedItemImage property is used to: Get the item that corresponds to the image displayed in a ListView control. Change the item that corresponds to the image displayed in a ListView control....