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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.
Native MySQL Connector: Programming with SQL functions
The SQL functions can be used to handle the MySQL database......
WINDEV and OPC
OPC stands for "OLE for Process Control"......
Writing an email
Writing an email in WLanguage consists in filling the email structure of WLanguage......
Handling controls in a report
The different operations available for the report controls are as follows......
WINDEV Mobile License Agreement
WINDEV Mobile License Agreement...
emailAttach (Type of variable)
The emailAttach type is used to handle an attachment.
Installing and starting WDTRAD
hFileParameter (Type of variable)
The hFileParameter type is used to define the data files taken into account by a scheduled...
Native MariaDB Connector: Programming with SQL functions
The SQL functions can be used to handle the MariaDB database......
xmlReader (Type of variable)
The xmlReader type is used to read an XML document without loading it in memory.
Compilation options (HLP format)
Native Oracle Connector: Programming with SQL functions
The SQL functions can be used to handle the ORACLE database, regardless of whether WDORAINS is used...
Printing bar codes
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to print bar codes....
HFSQL properties
List of HFSQL properties...
Message (Property)
The Message property is used to: Find out the help message associated with a control...
ExceptionThrow (Function)
Artificially triggers the security mechanism of WLanguage by throwing an exception.
Printing the content of a table (AAF)
A Table control proposes an automatic popup menu allowing the user to perform several operations...
notificationAction (Type of variable)
The notificationAction type is used to describe an additional action associated...
Create the help system in WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile
These are the main steps to create a help file (HTML, CHM or PDF)......
Creating help pages
A help system includes several pages......
DndSource (Property)
The DndSource property is used to determine and change a control's drag-and-drop behavior....
Trace (Function)
Displays the requested information (content of a control, for example) in a window opened next...
Drawing in WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile include several functions for displaying, drawing, copying...
Diagram Editor control events
WINDEV manages the following events by default (in the order in which they appear in the code...
CallWD: Function specific to the external language
Calls a WLanguage function from an external language....