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Version: 2025

Environment of the window editor
The main elements of window editor are as follows:
Options of the window editor
To configure the general options of the window editor...
Zoom in the different editors
All editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to zoom in on the different elements displayed in the editor...
Copy between the editors
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to perform copies (or Drag and Drop) of controls between the products and their editors.
Keyboard shortcuts
The main keyboard shortcuts in the editors are as follows...
<Window>.OpenMobileWindow (Function)
Opens a window in a mobile application.
WaitWindowStart (Function)
Opens the wait window of application.
WinStatus (Function)
Identifies or modifies the window status.
SysSetFocus (Function)
Sets focus to a window or control.
SysWinShow (Function)
Modifies the display status of a window.
SysValidHandle (Function)
Checks the validity of a window handle.
Opening a window from a secondary thread
A secondary thread cannot directly open a window with the standard WLanguage functions such as......
SQLTransaction (Function)
Begins, commits or rolls back a transaction: on the files of a database opened by SQLConnect, on the files of a database opened by a connection (OLE DB or Native Access/Native Connector) described in the data model editor or by HOpenConnection....
TypeDescription (Property)
The TypeDescription property is used to: Find out the type used by an Enumeration or Combination item. This item was defined in the data model editor or programmatically. Define the type used by an Enumeration or Combination item (when describing the item through programming)....
Multilingual messages: Convert to new format (version 27 and later)
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile have included multilingual project support in many previous versions......
Testing the WEBDEV Application Server setup with an example
HintTextColor (Property)
The HintTextColor property is used to get and change the hint text color of an Edit control.
YInitial (Property)
The YInitial property is used to: Find out the Y-coordinate: of a control (position on Y-axis) when opening the window or the page. of a window (position on Y-axis) when opening the window. Modify the Y-coordinate of a control anchored "to bottom" (position on the vertical axis) when opening the window. Find out the Y-coordinate of a control in relation to its block (position in millimeters on the vertical axis) when opening the report....
Creating a Java archive
When your Java application is developed, you can......
Window controls
Several types of controls can be used in a window, ......
WinAdaptHeight (Function)
Adapts the window height to the content of controls.
WinAdaptWidth (Function)
Adapts the window width to the content of controls.
Hint (Property)
The Hint property gets and sets the hint text displayed when the Edit control is empty.
WorkingDirectory (Property)
The WorkingDirectory property is used to: get or change the directory used by the HTML Editor control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the HTML Display control to store the images and CSS sheets of an HTML page. get the directory used by the Camera control to save photos and videos....
DisplayAsMarkdown (Property)
The DisplayAsMarkdown property indicates whether or not an Edit control displays its content in Markdown format.
TableMode (Function)
TableMode is kept for backward compatibility.
Check spelling based on Hunspell dictionaries
WINDEV gives you the ability to use the spelling checker of the Word Processing controls in WINDEV applications......
Creating help pages
A help system includes several pages......
Spreadsheet report
The report editor allows you to create "Spreadsheet" reports......
WinAdaptSize (Function)
Adapts the window size to the content of controls.