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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...
Testing a static project
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
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.
Project configuration
Project configurations allow you to adapt the same project to multiple "targets"...
Project image gallery
The project image gallery allows viewing all the images of a project in a single click...
Handling the versions of a window, report, query or project
When creating and developing the different elements of a project (window, query, report, project, ...
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Recompiling the project
The project compilation is a process used to...
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, ...
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...
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, ...
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories...
Project with multiple analyses
A single WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile project can now use multiple analyses (data descriptions)...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Common project
Projects are often cross-platform...
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
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.
Project dashboard
The project dashboard provides an overall view of project status via different widgets....
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
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)...
Events associated with the project
List of events associated with the project
Debugger: Step-by-step project execution
Running a project step-by-step allows you to start the debugger when launching the application...
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...
Importing and consuming SOAP web services
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to directly import web services into your applications...
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...
Business rules
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to manage the business rules...
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users...
Share your projects via Git
Git is a source code manager...
Managing pinned projects
The home window of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to manage the pinned projects when opening an existing project...
WINDEV Mobile: Platforms, processors and operating systems
WINDEV Mobile applications can run on the following platforms
Local procedure
Two types of procedures are available...
Code statistics
The code statistics affect...
Exporting elements to a directory
All the elements handled by a project (window, report, classes, set of procedures, queries, ...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Using several libraries in an application
A library is a WDL file that contains all the resources...
Testing a Mobile application
By testing the project you can simulate how the application will run when launched by the user...
Time management
For each element (windows, reports, ...
"About" window
The "About" window is used to display and access various information about the current application...
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...
HOpenComplementaryAnalysis (Function)
Opens a new database schema, but keeps the main database schema of the application.
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.
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...
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...
Events associated with windows
List of events associated with windows...
ExtractStringBetween (Function)
Allows you to: extract a substring between two given separators from a character string....
REST Services: Prologue procedure (executed before each call)
It is now possible to specify in the description of a Webservice that a procedure must be called...
LOOP statement
The statement block is repeated endlessly...
Clickable control in a report
The report editor allows you to propose clickable controls during the print preview......
Events associated with control templates
List of events associated with control templates...
Using the Google Maps service
The Google Maps service is an Internet mapping software proposed by Google......
Native Access to SAP
SAP is a widely used ERP......
User Groupware
A Windows application, an Internet or Intranet site require to define the role of different...
Events associated with supercontrols
List of events associated with supercontrols...
WDTRAD
WDTRAD is a tool for entering the translation of messages associated with a WINDEV, WEBDEV...
Configuring the IIS 7/7.5 server
Background tasks
Continuing to run a process when the application is in background is very useful on mobile......
grParameter (Function)
Retrieves or modifies a chart parameter.
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gglContact (Type of variable)
The gglContact type is used to describe and modify a contact used by the Google Contacts service...
Installing and starting WDTRAD
Installing and starting WDTRAD
Organization chart linked to a data file
ExecuteMainThread (Function)
Triggers the execution of the procedure specified in the main application thread.
Managing WebSockets
The WebSockets are used to communicate from a Web application (Intranet or Internet site run...
fExeDir (Function)
Returns the directory from which the execution is started.
LoadError (Function)
Loads the file containing the error messages in the desired language into memory.
WarningAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a custom message in a non-blocking system warning window.