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 WINDEV, WEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2025
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
Text (Property)
The Text property is used to get and modify text.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
dText (Function)
Draws a text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
<Image>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image control.
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a WDPic variable.
<Image variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type Image.
<Image variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in an Image variable.
ClipboardRTF (Function)
Retrieves an RTF string from the clipboard (the content of the clipboard is in RTF).
dTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
HTMLToText (Function)
Converts an HTML string or buffer to text.
Clipboard (Function)
Retrieves the text or image found in the system clipboard.
ClipboardUnicode (Function)
Returns the text found in the clipboard in Unicode format.
<Image>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in an Image control.
<Libellé>AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for animated text (in a Static Text control).
dTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable.
<Image>AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image field.
<Libellé>.AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for a Static Text control.
<Image>.AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for a moving image (in an Image field).
TextToHTML (Function)
Converts a text string into an HTML string (carriage returns are replaced by <BR>accents are replaced by their HTML equivalent, ...).
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type WDPic.
dTextWidth (Function)
Calculates text width in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for:
  • an animated image (in an Image control),
  • an animated text (in a Static Text control).
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a picLayer variable.
dTextHeight (Function)
Calculates text height in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
<Image variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image variable.
<WDPic variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a WDPic variable.
AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image or Static Text control.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type picLayer.
<Image>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text in an Image control.
Database schema editor: the different types of sections
The different types of items proposed in the data model editor are as follows:
<picLayer variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a picLayer variable.
Text (Property)
Text is used to find out whether an item is a text item.
Typing multilingual texts
For a multilingual application, you have the ability to......
Extracting the text of the project
The following text can be extracted......
Reintegrating text into a project
All the text form the translation file can be reintegrated into a project......
Printing a watermark text
A report (and a duplicate copy) can include an additional text in the format of a watermark,...
Text formatting variant
You can customize text attributes such as character spacing, line spacing and font size in a window...
The Rich Text Area control
The Rich Text Area control is a Static control offering several layout possibilities......
Report viewer: Text copy
The report viewer allows you to copy text from the report and paste it to a file in another...
OCR: Convert an image to text
An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system analyzes an image to extract the text it contains......
Message text file format
The text files created by WDMSG use a specific format......
Search and full-text index
HFSQL proposes a quick search for character strings in the data......
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
Reintegrating translated text into a project
Once the translation of framework libraries ("......
Report based on a text file
In a report based on a text file, the information to print is read from a text file or is directly...
Search the selected text on the Internet (AAF)
The context menu of Edit controls includes a "Search on Internet" option for the term selected...
Managing a Text token Edit control
...Interfaces that use token controls are common. A Token control contains variable amounts...
The Text control: Input or display masks
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose two types of masks......
Rich Text Area control properties
A Rich Text Area control can be handled in a window by the following WLanguage properties......
Handling HTML text in an Edit control
...WEBDEV allows you to handle text in HTML via the "HTML format" option of the Edit controls...
Handling a Rich Text Area control through programming
To handle a Rich Text Area control programmatically, use the variable of the Rich Text Area control...
Rich text, links and images in the WEBDEV controls
Rich text supports multiple advanced features: font, weight, size, color, attribute, ......
Events associated with a Rich Text Area control
WEBDEV manages the following events by default (order of appearance in the code editor)......
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