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Version: 2025

The different states of a Button control in a window
In WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile applications, Button controls can have multiple states......
Managing rights on HFSQL Client/Server
To ensure data security and confidentiality, some actions may be restricted to a group of users......
ERR_DISCONNECTED_TIMEOUT
Toolbar and menu of the SCM
The different options of the SCM can be handled via the SCM toolbar or the options of a specific menu ("SCM" from the main menu of the product used)......
Declaring and using a variable
A variable is defined by name and type......
MenuAddURLOption (Function)
Adds a new option after the last option of a drop-down or context menu. This menu option opens the page that corresponds to the specified URL.
ContactDisplay (Function)
Opens the form of a contact in the device's native contacts application (Android, iPhone or iPad, Universal Windows)....
Inserting an image or video into a help page
It can be useful to use images or videos in help pages to explain the actions to be done, indicate which buttons must be used, etc....
The Image Editor control
The "Image Editor" control is a rich control that allows end users to create and edit images in their WINDEV applications......
XML: Using files exceeding several gigabytes
Starting with version 23, an XML parser is available to handle XML files that are multiple GB in size......
gpwOpenConnection (Function)
Opens a connection to a specific Client/Server database to manage the files of user groupware in Client/Server mode....
2. Multilingual application
A multilingual application can be distributed in multiple languages....
Recycle code windows
By default, a single code window is opened per ......
Activation key management functions
The following functions are used to manage activation keys:...
drag-and-drop operation set programmatically
The programmed Drag and Drop is used to entirely manage Drag/Drop between the different types of controls......
ContactEdit (Function)
Opens the form of a contact in edit mode in the device's native contacts application (Android, iPhone, iPad, Universal Windows)....
DocOpen (Function)
Opens a Word Processing file (docx format) in Read/Write mode. The docx file is opened and locked until it is closed....
<Word Processing>.Open (Function)
Opens a Word Processing file (docx format) in Read/Write mode. The docx file is opened and locked until it is closed....
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file......
ScreenshotAllowed (Property)
The ScreenshotAllowed property is used to: Determine whether it is possible to take screenshots of a window, Allow or prevent taking screenshots of a window....
nWDOpenWDL: Opening a library
Opens a library created by WINDEV (file with a WDL extension)......
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)......
Managing the synchronization
For each action performed in a page, the mechanism for page synchronization automatically checks the synchronization......
CtDescribedPassword (Property)
The CtDescribedPassword property allows you to set the password used to open the data file in an OLE DB connection (file defined in the code only).
nWDSetParentNext
Set the parent of the next window to open......