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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 application for sending emails found 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,.
Creating a WEBDEV project
A project is a logical set of elements and processes whose purpose is to accomplish a given objective...
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.
SMSRunApp (Function)
Starts the native application for sending SMSs found on the device (Android or iPhone/iPad).
How to create a patch?
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)...
Developing applications for Android
WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for the Android operating system...
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.
Setup in MSI format
You can create MSI installers...
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.
StringToUTF8 (Function)
Converts an ANSI or UNICODE string to UTF-8.
InternetConnected (Function)
Defines whether an Internet connection is enabled on the current computer. In mobile, you can also...
fWrite (Function)
Writes: a character string into an external file. a memory section....
DeleteParameter (Function)
Deletes a parameter (or a set of parameters) saved either by SaveParameter, or automatically via...
Transactions: Secure processes on HFSQL data files
This chapter presents the following topics......
HListServerTrigger (Function)
Lists the different triggers available on a connection or on one of the connection files.
SocketCreateSSL (Function)
Creates a secure socket according to the SSL protocol.
gpwAddUser (Function)
Adds a user to the User Groupware database.
IsEven (Function)
Identifies an even number.
EndTimerSys (Function)
Ends the execution of a timer triggered by TimerSys.
HTTP functions
List of HTTP functions...
HInfoFileRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or to a group on an HFSQL Client/Server data...
HOpen (Function)
Opens a data file.
LooperInfoXY (Function)
Used to find out the row or control located at specific position in the Looper control (X, Y).
HStatDate (Function)
Returns the date of the last update for the index statistics.
dbgCheckFalse (Function)
Checks whether an expression is false in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
LooperDelete (Function)
Deletes a row from a Looper control.
MoveLine (Function)
Allows you to: move a row in a two-dimensional WLanguage array or in an advanced array...
TelemetryIdentifyUser (Function)
Identifies the current user for whom the telemetry data is saved.
Handle (Function)
Returns the system "Handle" (HWND) of a WINDEV control or window.
VideoDisplay (Function)
Displays in a Camera control the video sequence currently transmitted by a "web camera"...
DateTimeUTCToLocal (Function)
Converts a UTC date and time to local time (time zone, summer time, winter time).
dPolygon (Function)
Draws a polygon: in an Image control, in an Image variable, in a WDPic variable...
dChord (Function)
Draws the chord of a circle (intersection between an ellipse and a straight line): in an Image...
DnDCacheData (Function)
Indicates the type of data and the data to copy/move during Drag/Drop....