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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...
Project configuration
Project configurations allow you to adapt the same project to multiple "targets"...
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.
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...
Project image gallery
The project image gallery allows viewing all the images of a project in a single click...
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
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, ...
Project dashboard
The project dashboard provides an overall view of project status via different widgets....
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.
Project Management Hub: Presentation
The Project Management Hub is used to organize and schedule a project, from design to delivery...
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, ...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Debugger: Step-by-step project execution
Running a project step-by-step allows you to start the debugger when launching the application...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
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)...
Project comparator
Comparing two windows (two pages, two reports, two classes, ...
Organizing the directories of a project
When creating a project, a directory specific to this project is automatically created...
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...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
Testing and debugging a project on the development computer
The test of the entire project allows you to simulate the start of the application with the executable...
Events associated with the project
List of events associated with the project
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Project with multiple analyses
A single WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile project can now use multiple analyses (data descriptions)...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
The "Favorites" pane
The "Favorites" pane gives direct access to the favorites of your project...
Managing pinned projects
The home window of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to manage the pinned projects when opening an existing project...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Code statistics
The code statistics affect...
Local procedure
Two types of procedures are available...
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users...
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...
Share your projects via Git
Git is a source code manager...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
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.
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
Testing a Mobile application
By testing the project you can simulate how the application will run when launched by the user...
Creating and deploying the installation program: How do you do it?
Creating the setup program allows you to deploy a WINDEV application on the end-user computers...
Automated tests on an executable
WINDEV allows you to test a project using the corresponding executable...
Debugging without using a debugger
In some cases, running a program or a site with or without the debugger can produce different results...
Execution platform
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for different families of products...
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file...
Custom-Folders
"Custom-Folders" simplify the organization of projects, allowing you to group the elements of your application by themes...
Window for quick selection
You are searching for a project element? You only know part of its name? Press [CTRL]+[E] to open the quick selection window...
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
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...
URL Rewriting
URL Rewriting is a technique used to improve SEO......
PageToPHP (Function)
Sends the data found in a page currently displayed in the browser to a PHP server.
DeepLinkProcedure (Function)
Defines the WLanguage procedure executed when the user clicks on a deep link.
Importing styles from a WordPress theme with WEBDEV
WordPress offers numerous templates to create original websites...
Report editor: options and keyboard shortcuts
Several toolbars are displayed in the report editor......
OKCancel (Function)
Displays a message in a standard dialog box that proposes "OK" and "Cancel" and returns the user's...
PageToJSP (Function)
Sends the data found in a page currently displayed in the browser to a JSP server.
SAPExecute (Function)
Calls a synchronous function or BAPI on a SAP system.
AWP: Managing contexts
To keep the value of global variables when switching from a page to another one, the AWP mode...
Managing the synchronization
For each action performed in a page, the mechanism for page synchronization automatically checks...
Open (Function)
Opens a modal WINDEV window.
Using C# code
You can use C# code in WINDEV applications (Windows applications and components, .NET assemblies......
Confirm (Function)
Displays a message in a standard dialog box that proposes "Yes", "No", "Cancel" and returns...
Help system properties
The properties of help system are used to define......
Translating the code
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to automatically translate your WLanguage code...
FramesetUse (Function)
Displays a WEBDEV frameset in the user's browser and closes all the current page and frameset...
PageToEmail (Function)
Emails the data found in a page currently displayed in the browser.
Style of a control
As soon as it is created, a control is associated with a style......
Mobile User Groupware (Android and iOS)
WINDEV Mobile includes a User Groupware for Android and iOS applications......
fResourceDir (Function)
Returns the path of the read-only resources of the application.
W3C standardization
You must comply with the W3C standard (HTML 4......
InfoWithTimeoutAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a custom message in a non-blocking system information window for a given amount of time.
ErrorWithTimeoutAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a custom error message in a non-blocking system error window for a given amount of time.
Timer on button (AAF)
In an application developed in WINDEV, the user has the ability to implement a timer on a button......