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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.
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.
<WDPic variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a WDPic variable.
<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.
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users......
Handling a Static control programmatically
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to handle a Static control programmatically......
ocrOption (Type of variable)
The ocrOption type is used to define all the general options of the native OCR (Optical Character...
WDINT overview
WDINT is an optional tool of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile......
iParameterWatermark (Function)
Adds a watermark into a report (report created in the report editor or printed report).
Binding Bar Code controls to items
A Bar Code control can be bound to an item in a data file, query, etc....
Handling Bar Code controls programmatically
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to programmatically handle Bar Code controls......
Coloring the procedures
A color (text color) can be assigned to the procedures so that they can be easily classified...
The indexed controls
A control is an indexed control if it contains several controls with the same name......
StoredValue (Property)
ListView or Combo Box control. a "Text token" Edit control. a row of a Table control. an input...
21. Reports
Managing the Unicode format in the HFSQL files
The analysis proposes two types of Unicode items......
Required or invalid input in WINDEV
WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile include several options to manage required or invalid input, both via...
Handling a formatted display control through programming
WEBDEV allows you to handle a formatted display control through programming......
The Scrollbar control
...The Scrollbar control is used to scroll objects (text, captions, etc....
Step 3: Printing characters, images, ...
This step consists in "sending the different elements to print to the printer"......
Report viewer: "Preview" tab
The report viewer allows end users to view reports before printing them......
Password (Property)
The Password property can be used: on the edit controls (or on the text table columns) to find...
Images, colors and tabs
To optimize the appearance of your screens, WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to use...
Window control search functions
WINDEV allows the user to perform a search among all the texts found in a window or in a control......
Background image of multilingual window
In some cases, the background image of a window can contain a text (the application name,...
OCRAddLanguage (Function)
Adds a language to the native OCR system.
3. Data handled by a WINDEV Mobile application
The data handled by a WINDEV Mobile application can come from...
WINDEV Mobile and SMS messages
WINDEV Mobile allows you to easily send and read SMS messages with the SMS functions...
Component diagram
A component diagram shows the physical and static architecture of a system software......