Importing a WINDEV window into a Mobile project

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Importing a WINDEV window into a Mobile project

Overview

The WINDEV windows not having the same format in WINDEV Mobile, WINDEV Mobile gives you the ability to import a WINDEV window into a WINDEV Mobile project.

Reminder: The analyses, queries, sets of procedures, reports, classes have the same format in WINDEV and in WINDEV Mobile. These elements can be shared between a standard WINDEV project and a WINDEV Mobile project. For more details, see Sharing WINDEV elements.

How to proceed?

To import a WINDEV window into a WINDEV Mobile project:

On the "Project" pane, in the "Project" group, expand "Import" and select "WINDEV elements".
Select the window file (WDW extension) to import.
The selected window is automatically opened in WINDEV Mobile. To include this window in the current project, all you have to do is save it. The window is saved in WPW format.

Remark: The size of the imported window corresponds to its initial size. You will have to check the interface and the dimensions of the window in order to adapt them to the platform used (Pocket PC, Smartphone, etc.).

Notes

Operations performed during the import

The controls that do not exist in WINDEV Mobile are automatically deleted (toolbar, ...).
The list of errors that occurred (functions that do not exist in WINDEV Mobile for example) is displayed in the "Compilation errors" pane.

Dependency of the files

The windows are imported with their dependencies: all the files linked to the imported window are also imported. The images are automatically converted into a format supported by WINDEV Mobile. For example, the background image of a window is automatically imported and converted into GIF format.

Differences when executing events of a window

The differences between the Windows operating systems and the systems for mobile devices result in a different management of the events associated with the windows. The order in which the WLanguage events associated with the window are run is different in WINDEV and in WINDEV Mobile

When importing a WINDEV window, if your code is based on the order in which the WLanguage events associated with the window are run, check whether the application has the expected behavior (in test mode, simulator or at runtime).

Copying controls between a standard WINDEV window and a WINDEV Mobile window

The window controls can be copied between a WINDEV project and a WINDEV Mobile project.