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Version: 2026

Managing ports (serial ports, parallel ports, USB ports, etc.)
Several devices can be managed directly via a management of the ports used by these devices to communicate with the computer......
WorkingDirectory (Property)
The WorkingDirectory property is used to: get or change the directory used by the HTML Editor control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the HTML Display control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the Camera control to save photos and videos....
The key items
Keys are specific items in your analysis......
Programming overview in C and C++
Ellipsis (Property)
The Ellipsis property is used to determine and change the truncation mode with ellipses in: a window control (Static, edit control, List box, Button, Combo box or Static table column). a Static control in a report....
Managing videos (transmitted by a Web Camera)
To manage the video sequence currently broadcasted by the web camera installed on the current computer, WINDEV proposes......
ChronoStart (Function)
Starts a stopwatch to measure the duration of a process (in milliseconds) and resets a running stopwatch.
BuildBrowsingTable (Function)
Creates a Table control from the items of a data file (view or query).
HFlush (Function)
Forces the operating system of the computer where the data files are found to write data onto the disk.
HSetIntegrity (Function)
Enables or disables the management of an integrity constraint on a file link.
Handling report blocks
The different operations available on report blocks are as follows......
HSavePosition (Function)
Stores the current file context: current record, filter, pointers.
AppDetectUPDAvailable (Function)
Disables or customizes the automatic check for available updates.
FileToPage (Function)
Automatically updates the controls of a page with: the values of the bound items in the current record (loaded in memory) of the data file described in the data model editor. This operation is performed regardless of the state of the controls (grayed, inactive or invisible). the values of the bound WLanguage variables. This operation is performed regardless of the state of the controls (grayed, inactive or invisible)....
zipOpen (Function)
Opens an existing archive.
Quick search in the current code
When coding, developers often need to do a quick search in the current code...
Background download
Starting with version 27, files can be downloaded in the background, using the system download manager......
ConfirmAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a non-blocking message in a standard dialog box with the answers "Yes", "No", "Cancel" and calls a WLanguage procedure with the user's response....
InfoAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a non-blocking custom message in a system information window.
SourceFromPage (Function)
Automatically updates: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
INIWrite (Function)
Writes a specific value into an INI file (or into a file structured like an.INI file).
pvtPosition (Variable type)
The pvtPosition type is used to handle a cell of a Pivot Table control.
HNext (Function)
Sets the position on the next table record according to a browse item.
SpeechSynthesisReadText (Function)
Reads the specified text using the device's text-to-speech engine....