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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.
OLEPaste (Function)
Pastes the content of Windows clipboard into an OLE control.
Printing during the report test in the editor
During the test of a report ("Go" button from the report editor), several print options...
fExeDir (Function)
Returns the directory from which the execution is started.
docTabulation (Type of variable)
The docTabulation type is used to define the characteristics of a custom tabulation.
iOS specific buttons
WINDEV Mobile includes several standard Apple buttons......
nfcData (Type of variable)
The nfcData type is used to describe and handle the data of a variable of type nfcTag.
SQLExec (Function)
Names and runs an SQL query.
fRead (Function)
Reads: a block of bytes (characters) in an external file (ANSI or Unicode), the content...
notificationFormat (Type of variable)
The notificationFormat type is used to describe the display format of a notification when this one...
The Tab control
The Tab control is used to simultaneously display different controls......
Share your projects via Git
Git is a source code manager......
Characteristics of menu options
WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile manage two types of menus......
BackgroundStyle (Property)
The BackgroundStyle property is used to get and modify the background style of cells in tables...
Image Editor control: Options in the ribbon and the panes
The Image Editor control offers a host of options accessible via......
StrikeOut (Property)
The StrikeOut property is used to: Determine whether the strikethrough formatting is applied...
fCopyFile (Function)
Copies one or more files (regardless of their attributes).
Display (External language)
Displays a value in a control or assigns a value in a variable.
FontMinSize (Property)
The FontMinSize property is used to get and change the minimum size of the font used in a Static...
Keyboard shortcut on a button (AAF)
In an application developed with WINDEV, the user has the ability to implement a keyboard shortcut...
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gBackgroundGradient (Function)
Describes a display color in gradient mode.
InitialAnimation (Property)
The InitialAnimation property determines whether the animation of an Image, Button, Static...
htmlNode (Type of variable)
The htmlNode type is used to define all the advanced characteristics of a node of an HTML document.
Control constants
List of constants used by the functions for managing controls...
HDescribeFile (Function)
Describes a data file programmatically.