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Version: 2025

Activating an application or a site
When distributing an application or a site, you may want to offer both a full version and a limited version...
.NET application
To create a.NET application from a project...
What is an application?
An application is a set of objects (windows, controls, ...
Operating mode of HFSQL application
An HFSQL application can operate in network mode or in Client/Server mode...
Deploying an application that uses an external component
An application that uses one or more external components is deployed in the same way as a standard application...
Application patch
Once an application was installed, the application library had to be reinstalled whenever a modification was performed (WDL file)...
Application installation: single-user or network?
WINDEV proposes several types of setup for a WINDEV application...
Performance profiler
The performance profiler is a tool for checking and optimizing the execution time of your application...
Custom tooltips
Tooltips are very useful for application users...
EmailRunApp (Function)
Starts the native email application on the current computer:
  • Computer running Windows,
  • Mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad).
Creating a WINDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Keyboard shortcuts
The main keyboard shortcuts in the editors are as follows...
Local network (LAN) setup
Deploying a setup on a local area network (LAN) involves installing and updating a WINDEV application via a reference server,.
SMSRunApp (Function)
Starts the native application for sending SMSs found on the device (Android or iPhone/iPad).
Creating and deploying the installation program: How do you do it?
Creating the setup program allows you to deploy a WINDEV application on the end-user computers...
ListDLL (Function)
Returns:
  • runtime List of libraries (".DLL" files) used by the current WINDEV application, WINDEV Mobile or WEBDEV site. Only the libraries loaded in memory are listed.
  • in test mode: all libraries installed on the current workstation.
Developing applications for Android
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for the Android operating system...
How to create a patch?
Same source code for 32 and 64-bit applications
The 64-bit operating systems are starting to appear on the PCs and on the servers...
Creating a WINDEV Mobile project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
MSIX installation packages
Setup by HTTP (Network setup via IP)
The network setup via HTTP consists in installing and updating a WINDEV application via an HTTP server (Live update)...
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
Generating and deploying 64-bit applications
WINDEV allows you to automatically generate and install a 64-bit application.
AppDetectUPDAvailable (Function)
Disables or customizes the automatic check for available updates.
geoRunApp (Function)
Starts the device's native maps application to display:
  • a specific geographical location,
  • a route between two locations.
REP files
REP files contain the list of data files handled by the application.
Setup in MSI format
You can create MSI installers...
TableDeleteChild (Function)
Deletes all child rows from a branch of the hierarchy.
grOrigin (Function)
Modifies the start and end marks on one of the chart axes.
grDraw (Function)
Draws a chart according to the specified parameters.
zipPassword (Function)
Defines the password used to add files into the specified archive and to extract files...
Figma: Where to find the Figma key
To use Figma import in your product, you need to specify the Figma key in the general options...
EmailStartSession (Function)
Starts an email management session based on the selected management mode (POP3, SMTP, IMAP or MS...
1. Discover WINDEV
WINDEV Tutorial: WINDEV overview Lesson 1 - Discover WINDEV - 5 min
MultimediaPause (Function)
Pauses a media file played in a Multimedia control.
SFForwardQuery (Function)
Continues to run a SOQL query (Salesforce Object Query Language) on the records of a Salesforce...
SFExecuteProcess (Function)
Requests the execution of a specific process.
SFSearch (Function)
Performs a search among the records found in a Salesforce database.
TableAddChild (Function)
Adds a row into a TreeView Table control, at the end of a given hierarchy level.
fTime (Function)
Returns or modifies the different times associated with a file or directory (date created, modified...
InLinuxMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run in Linux mode or not.
SecondaryAxis (Property)
The SecondaryAxis property is used to: determine whether a chart series is on the secondary...
InWindowsPhoneEmulatorMode (Function)
Indicates whether the test is run via the Windows Phone emulator. Function kept for backward...
StringInsert (Function)
Inserts a string into another character string at a given position.
TextToRTF (Function)
Converts text to Rich Text Format.
HModifyViewRights (Function)
Modifies the rights granted to a user or to a group on a SQL view or on a materialized view.
InPrelaunchedSessionMode (Function)
Used to find out whether the site is started in "pre-launched session" mode of WEBDEV.
The statistics
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose several functions used to perform statistical...
Thickness (Property)
The Thickness property is used to: Find out the thickness of the line for a series (Line charts...
gFontItalic (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether or not the text that follows the call...
gFontUnderlined (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters to specify whether or not the text that follows the call...
xmlNamespace (Type of variable)
The xmlNamespace type is used to handle the XML namespace of a node attribute in an XML document.