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Help / Editors / Project editor / Project description
  • Overview
  • Advanced tab
  • Automatic Application Features (AAF)
  • HTML code generation options
  • Browser "Back" button
  • AWP
  • External resources
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Overview
The project description window allows you to configure various elements of your project. This window includes the following tabs:
  • The "Project" tab, which allows you to enter general information about the project
  • The "Analysis" tab, which is used to associate an analysis with the project and/or with a UML model
  • The "Files" tab, which allows you to enter information about the data files used by the application (only if the project is bound to an analysis).
  • The "Live data" tab, which allows you to configure how the data from the data files is displayed in the different editors.
  • The "Languages" tab, which is used to configure the different languages used by the project as well as the options to be used for each language.
  • The "Style" tab, which allows you to customize the print preview and to choose the skin template theme and custom style sheet. You can also configure screen sizes.
  • The "SCM" tab, which is used to manage teamwork (SCM or GIT).
  • The "Options" tab, which allows you to configure the template update, backup and synchronization options. This tab is also used to enable the strict mode and to define the code style.
  • The "Advanced" tab, which allows you to enable or disable "Reports & Queries", configure AAFs, and define how the application is locked.
  • The "Compilation" tab, which allows you to configure the compilation options.
  • The "Telemetry" tab, which allows you to configure the telemetry options for the project.
    WEBDEV - Server code This option is not available.
Advanced tab

Automatic Application Features (AAF)

The available options are:
  • AAF menu: Each control in a WINDEV project contains an automatic context menu, with default options. The "AAF menu" button allows you to configure the options to be shown or hidden in the context menu of each type of control in the project.
WEBDEV - Server code

HTML code generation options

The options are as follows:
  • HTML standard: HTML is only available if "Browser WLanguage" is set to "Version 1 (Compatible with WEBDEV 21)". In this case, you can choose the standard used for the generation as well as the associated generation options ("..." button).
  • WEBDEV - Server code WLanguage browser: Allows you to choose the browser framework used for the project. There are two options:
    • Version 1 (WEBDEV 21 compatible): Browser framework available from Default before version 22. This framework is particularly useful if you are not using the HTML 5 standard.. This framework is kept by compatibility. It has a number of limitations. It should not be used for new projects.
    • Version 2: Framework available from version 22, this version offers behavior much closer to that of the server code and largely complements the functionalities of the browser code..
      Important: to use this framework WLanguage, the page generation standard must be defined in "HTML 5"..
  • Extension of static pages: You can choose the extension of the generated static pages: htm or html.
WEBDEV - Server code

Browser "Back" button

This option allows you to set up synchronization on all the pages of the project:
  • Allowed: Implements synchronization by default. If a desynchronization occurs, a warning message informs the user that the requested action has not been performed. The page corresponding to the context on the server is redisplayed. The site can continue to operate.
  • Forbidden: The Back button cannot be used.
For more details, see Managing synchronization.
WEBDEV - Server code

AWP

Allows you to manage the default options of the AWP mode in the project:
  • Stand-alone Active WEBDEV Pages: With this option, you can generate stand-alone Active WEBDEV Pages. In this case, the pages contain all the elements of the project (analysis, reports, sets of procedures, etc.). Since stand-alone Active WEBDEV Pages are very large files, they must be used in some specific cases.
    By default, this option is unchecked. In this case, the generated Active WEBDEV Pages contain only the essential code. If the page needs to call another element, it is searched in the library (WDL file).
  • Use a cache for the generated images (a single call to the initialization code of the page): This option (checked by default) reduces the time it takes to display pages containing generated images (e.g., image of a Chart control). If this option is checked, the generated images are directly calculated and stored in cache when the page is generated by the server.
    Caution: this option requires the use of AWP contexts on disk.
WEBDEV - Server code

External resources

In a site, you can include:
  • one or multiple JavaScript files (*.js). These files will be used by the generated HTML pages. These files must be in the "_WEB" directory of the site.
  • interface files (programming interface) offered by external services (Web API) on the WEB. This gives you the ability to interface with these external services in browser code.
  • CSS files.
You can select the desired files by clicking "Additional files".
Minimum version required
  • Version 27
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