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Version: 2025

Project functions
List of functions for managing projects
Associating documents with the project
To describe a project in detail, you can associate documents with it...
Cleaning the project
After months or years of development and maintenance, the directory of your project often contains several files that are not used anymore but that you don't dare delete...
Making a backup of a project
It is possible to regularly make a backup of the different elements of a project...
Project anomalies: dead code and orphan elements
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to easily detect these "dead codes" and "orphan" elements.
Renaming a project
Renaming a project is used ton modify the name of the project. All the elements linked to the project before it is renamed are kept.
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Importing elements into a project
All the elements of a project (windows, reports, classes, sets of procedures, queries...
Project Management Hub: Schedule management
The project contributors can manage their tasks directly from the schedule or from the task list...
Creating a Java project
WINDEV allows you to generate a Java application without even knowing the Java language...
Project elements
The project includes windows, reports, queries, help files, sets of procedures, ...
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
Importing a WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile project and its elements
A WINDEV project and all its elements compatible with WINDEV Mobile (analysis, windows, classes, sets of procedures, queries, ...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
Project compilation: Warning, Error, Information, Programming standard...
When developing a project, the project is compiled on a regular basis.
Testing a static project
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
Restoring a project backup
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to regularly save the different elements of your project in an archive file (ZIP extension)...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Custom-Folders
"Custom-Folders" simplify the organization of projects, allowing you to group the elements of your application by themes...
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
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...
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Automated tests on an executable
WINDEV allows you to test a project using the corresponding executable...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file...
Creating an application that manages the Euro
The method for creating an application supporting the switch to the Euro is as simple as the method for creating a WINDEV application.
The "Favorites" pane
The "Favorites" pane gives direct access to the favorites of your project...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products...
FishEye
The "FishEye" effect is used to enlarge a section of editor graphs (analysis graph, UML graph, ...
Test of a WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile application
WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile feature multiple methods to test applications...
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
Splitting Business logic / UI code
During the development cycle of an application, the code that is specific to the interface (UI)...
Browser code (WLanguage): Framework 2
From version 22, WEBDEV proposes a new WLanguage framework for the browser code...
Checkers available in the code editor
The code editor proposes several tools used to correct the code......
Testing a WEBDEV site on a mobile device
It is increasingly common for developers to test websites on mobile devices......
Testing a static page
The test of a single page allows you to run the current page in WEBDEV......
SCM file format evolutions
Four versions are available for the SCM repository......
Checking spelling in edit controls
WINDEV lets you use the spelling checker in the Edit controls and text columns of the Table...
2. Analysis in practice
SCM administrator: Managing branches
projects found in SCM......
3. Debugger
Push notification: Android configuration (Google Cloud Messaging)
To use the Push notifications in Android, you must have a Google account and you must perform...
STOP (Reserved word)
STOP is used to call the WLanguage debugger during a test in the editor...
Testing a dynamic page (session or AWP mode)
The test of a single page runs the current page in WEBDEV......
External language: Programming in Fortran
We are going to call the elements developed in WINDEV (project, windows, analysis, ......
Developing an application for Apple Watch
An Apple Watch application is an application intended for a watch associated with an iOS device...
Generating an iOS application
Several steps must be performed to develop an iPhone/iPad application:...
Search in the editors
Being able to perform a search in the editors significantly improves efficiency......
Example for creating a select query
This help page explains how to create two select queries......
Developing an application for iPhone/iPad
The development of an iPhone/iPad application is performed in 2 steps:...
Distributing an external component
Once the component has been created, tested and generated, it can be distributed...
The "Commands" pane
The "Commands" pane lists......
Creating the windows and the pages of the RAD pattern
Telemetry: Configuring the WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile applications
To use the telemetry in a WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile application, you must......
External language: Programming in C++ (WDWDIAL interface)
This third method uses the notion of class inheritance to simplify the interfacing between a C++...
Specific features of the applications for iPhone/iPad