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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...
ThreadRequestStop (Function)
Sends a stop request to a thread.
zipFindFile (Function)
Finds a file in an archive (in CAB, ZIP, RAR, WDZ or 7z format).
gStoredValueEnable (Function)
Allows (or not) retrieving the value defined by gStoredValue in a List Box or a Combo Box control.
JWTParameters (Type of Variable)
The JWTParameters type allows you to define all the information necessary to perform JTW...
MultimediaStop (Function)
Stops playing a media file found in a Multimedia control.
MultimediaPosition (Function)
Returns or modifies the current position of the media file currently played in the Multimedia...
InDays (Property)
The InDays property is used to convert a Duration variable to days.
InHours (Property)
The InHours property is used to convert a Duration variable to hours.
InMinutes (Property)
The InMinutes property is used to convert a Duration variable to minutes.
SFModify (Function)
Modifies the records of a file defined in Salesforce.
dbgEndMemoryDiff (Function)
Saves a memory dump containing the memory resources that have been allocated...
SchedulerMode (Function)
Returns the display mode of a Scheduler control: day, week, month, ...
ScreenToFile (Function)
Automatically updates: the values of a data file's items in memory with the values...
Creating an executable: Language of the executable
When creating the executable, you have the ability to choose the languages that will be included...
fDelete (Function)
Deletes a file accessible from the current computer.
AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for: an animated image (in an Image control),...
SQLReqExists (Function)
Checks the existence of a query.
SQLListTable (Function)
List all the tables that can be accessed by the connected database system.
HRecNum (Function)
Returns: the number of the current record in the HFSQL data file. the number of the current...
XMLNamespaceURI (Function)
Returns the URI of the namespace associated with the current tag in an XML document.
Name (Property)
The Name property is used to get: the name of the font associated with a Font variable....
dText (Function)
Draws a text: in an Image control, in an Image variable, in a WDPic variable...
sfMergeRequest (Type of variable)
The sfMergeRequest type is used to describe the elements to merge during the call to SFMerge...
Border (Property)
The Border property is used to get and change the characteristics of the borders: for a report...
sfSeekDeletedResult (Type of variable)
The sfSeekDeletedResult type is used to find out the result of SFSeekDeleted...