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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.
SystemBarColor (Property)
The SystemBarColor property is used to get or change the system bar color in full-screen windows on mobile devices.
InternalWindowPopup (Property)
The InternalWindowPopup property is used to get and modify the name of the internal window used to customize the content of marker popups in a Map control.
InternalPagePopup (Property)
The InternalPagePopup property is used to get and modify the name of the internal page used to customize the content of marker popups in a Map control.
NbAnimationSteps (Property)
The NbAnimationSteps property is used to get and specify the number of drawings in the image that defines the animation of a custom infinite Progress Bar control.
DoubleClick (Property)
The DoubleClick property is used to get and change the name of the Button control that will be executed when a control is double-clicked.
SourceWindow (Property)
The SourceWindow property is used to get the source of an internal window (i.e. the internal window displayed by the Internal Window control).
AttributeSerialize (Property)
The AttributeSerialize property gets the serialization name of the type according to its name and the <Serialize> extension attribute.
Effect (Property)
Use in the GuidedVisitStage class - Access in get + Write - Type: Integer32
YImage (Property)
The YImage property is used to get and change the initial Y-coordinate of the image section that will be displayed in an Image control or in the background of a Chart control.
<xlsDocument variable>.UnmergeCell (Function)
Unmerges a given cell.
fLoadResource (Function)
Loads the content of a resource from a library.
fDriveReady (Function)
Determines: if a given drive (storage card, CD or DVD) is available, whether the drive exists....
fDetectRemovableStorage (Function)
Detects whether a removable storage unit (CD, USB key, USB camera, ...) was added or removed.
Multi-database queries
A query (typed in SQL code) can operate on different databases......
Message (Property)
The Message property is used to: Find out the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window). Modify the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window)....
XImage (Property)
The XImage property is used to get and change the initial X-coordinate of the image section that will be displayed in an Image control or in the background of a Chart control.
<xlsDocument variable>.MergeCell (Function)
Merges the specified cells in an Excel document.
Project portfolio
From version 25, you can create "project portfolios"......
Italic (Property)
The Italic property is used to: Find out whether a Font variable is in italic type. Modify the italic attribute of a Font variable....
MenuIsMarked (Function)
Used to find out whether a checkmark is displayed in front of a menu option (popup menu or drop-down menu).
IsNumeric (Function)
Enables you to find out whether a variable or a control is: a numeric (integer, real, currency or numeric). a string that can be converted into numeric....
EmailAddFolder (Function)
Adds a folder into the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol), ...).
EmailSeekFirst (Function)
Finds one or more emails according to the criteria specified in the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol, ...).
<WDPic variable>.VerticalSymmetry (Function)
Flips an image contained in a WDPic variable (in the background layer) with respect to a vertical axis (symmetry with respect to a vertical axis).
Project Management Hub: New/Fixed incidents
To improve project monitoring, the Project Management Hub shows the evolution of new and fixed incidents over a given period of time, by one or multiple contributors......