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Version: 2025

Tab order in a window, a page, etc.
The tab order of the controls found in a window or in a page describes the order in which the controls take focus in a window when the user presses the [Tabulation] key...
Creating a skin template from an existing skin template
You can create a skin template from an existing skin template (provided by PC SOFT, for example)...
Anchoring applied to window controls
The windows of a WINDEV application can be resized at runtime...
Zoom in the different editors
All editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to zoom in on the different elements displayed in the editor...
Creating a window skin template
The Name55 property is used to manipulate the logical name of a Hyper File 5.5 data file that has not been migrated and is located in a WINDEV 19 analysis.
Skin template
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to customize the interface of your applications via several preset interfaces...
Automatic positioning
When moving a control in a window, in a page or in a report, guides are automatically displayed by the real-time interface checker (also called automatic positioning)...
Alignment rulers (Editor)
When creating or modifying a window in the window editor, you have the ability to display the alignment rulers...
Importing a WINDEV window into a Mobile project
The WINDEV windows not having the same format in WINDEV Mobile, WINDEV Mobile gives you the ability to import a WINDEV window into a WINDEV Mobile 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...
Viewing a window in 3 dimensions
Your window contains overlapping controls?...
Alignment options
To optimize the alignment of controls in a window, page or report, you have the ability to use the alignment options...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Importing a non-WINDEV window
You are interested by a window found in a non-WINDEV application?...
The "Window position preview" pane
The "Window position preview" pane is used to view and/or modify the opening position of the windows currently modified (according to the screen resolution used)...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
Creating an executable without library
When creating an executable, you can choose not to use a library or not to include all the elements of the project in the library...
Special paste
The Special paste command is used to explicitly choose the format in which the clipboard content will be pasted in the window editor...
Handling the views of a window
To easily handle huge windows (that cannot be entirely displayed in the editor for example), WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to handle several views of the same window...
<HTML editor>.Replace (Function)
Replaces one string with another in an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.GetSelection (Function)
Asynchronously retrieves the current selection from an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.ToPDF (Function)
Exports the content of an HTML Editor control to a PDF file.
<Editor HTML>.InsertTable (Function)
Inserts a table at the cursor position in an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.FormatSelection (Function)
Modifies the style of the selected elements in an HTML Editor control.
<Source>.ListQueryParameter (Function)
Returns the list of parameters for a query created in the query editor.
Query editor: Characteristics
DiagramGroup (Function)
Creates a group from the elements selected in the Diagram Editor control.
DiagramUngroup (Function)
Dissociates the different shapes of a group in a Diagram Editor control.
HExecuteQuery (Function)
Declares a query created in the query editor to the HFSQL engine and runs this query.
Runtime log
The runtime log is the best way to identify the most used features of an application......
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file......
PageEnableDDW (Function)
Enables or disables the DDW (Dim Disabled Window) when displaying a modal page (the pages used to communicate with the user for example).
Grayed (Property)
The Grayed property is used to: Determine if a control (or a group of controls) is grayed out. Gray out or ungray a control, a group of controls or a window....
WinLineDetails (Property)
The WinLineDetails property allows you to get and change the name of the internal window used to display the details of a row in a Table control.
WLanguage procedure called by OpenDocument
WLanguage procedure ("callback") called by OuvreDocument after the edit window is closed. This procedure can be a local, global or internal procedure.
Image control: Operating mode of a clickable image
You can define the click actions of an Image control ("General" tab of the control description window) to make it Clickable Image control......
Select query description window: Actions applied
This help page presents the actions that can be performed from the description window of a query....
nWDSetCallbackNext
Set the "callback" called when using the WDKEY and RETURNWDKEY keywords for the next window to open (in C, Pascal and Visual Basic only)......
CursorCapture (Function)
Directs all the events associated with the mouse toward a specific window or control, regardless of the screen object where the mouse event occurs.
RTFReplace (Function)
Replaces or inserts a character string in an RTF control (found in a window or in a report) or in a string in RTF (containing a text in RTF).
RTFSearch (Function)
Finds a character string in an RTF control (found in a window or in a report) or in a character string containing text in RTF format.
RTFInsert (Function)
Inserts a character string in RTF into the content of an RTF control (found in a window or in a report) or into the content of a character string in RTF.
TextDirection (Property)
The TextDirection property is used to determine and change the writing direction in a window, report or control (useful for languages such as Arabic or Hebrew).
ErrorWithTimeoutAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a custom error message in a non-blocking system error window for a given amount of time.