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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.
hdfsRename (Function)
Renames a file or a directory found on a Hadoop server.
DocToHTML (Function)
Converts a Word Processing document into an HTML file.
NoteSaveAll (Function)
Saves the repositionable notes of the current window in a file.
WinEdSaveNote (Function)
Exports the repositionable notes created by the user into a file.
HTrackStop (Function)
Stops tracking a data file on an HFSQL server.
DocToPDF (Function)
Converts a Word Processing document into a PDF file.
<Tiff variable>.SaveTIFF (Function)
Saves an image in TIFF format into a file or memory.
WLanguage procedure called by fListDirectory
Procedure ("Callback") called by fListFile for each file found.
PDFSave (Function)
Saves the content of a pdfDocument variable in a ".PDF" file.
<Word Processing>.ToPDF (Function)
Converts a Word Processing document into a PDF file.
<Image>.SaveBMP (Function)
Saves an image: in a file in BMP format. in memory....
<Image>.SaveGIF (Function)
Saves an image: in a file in GIF format. in memory....
<hdfsConnection variable>.Rename (Function)
Renames a file or a directory found on a Hadoop server.
<Window>.WindowBitmap (Function)
Creates the image of the specified window in a BMP file.
<Multimedia>.Pause (Function)
Pauses a media file played in a Multimedia control.
WLanguage procedure called by FTPListFile
Procedure ("Callback") called by FTPListFile for each file found.
FileToURI (Function)
Saves the contents of a file to a resource identified by its URI.
PDFAddImage (Function)
Adds an image to a page in an existing PDF file.
HTMLSave (Function)
Saves the content of an htmlDocument variable to an HTML file.
<Source>.DescribeTrigger (Function)
Adds or modifies a trigger on an HFSQL data file.
<htmlDocument variable>.Save (Function)
Saves the content of an htmlDocument variable to an HTML file.
<Source>.ChangeConnection (Function)
Dynamically changes the connection associated with a data file.
<Source>.StatCalculate (Function)
Performs various statistical calculations on the file keys.
<Source>.TrackStop (Function)
Stops tracking a data file on an HFSQL server.
fStopCompress (Function)
Stops the operation used to compress or decompress a file.