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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...
HTTPRequest (Function)
Starts an HTTP request on a server.
EpochToDateTime (Function)
Converts a date and a time in Epoch format (number of time units since 01/01/1970 at 00h00 UTC)...
MemExist (Function)
Checks the existence of a memory zone.
MemCurrent (Function)
Returns the index of the current element.
CurrentColumn (Function)
Returns: the index of the current indexed column in a Table control (based on a data file...
HInfoLock (Function)
Returns information about the lock set on a data file, on one or all the records in a data file.
HInfoUser (Function)
Updates the variables for user management with the information regarding the specified user.
EmailMessageLength (Function)
Calculates the size of specified message (without loading the message).
SeriesColor (Property)
The SeriesColor property is used to: Find out the color of a series in a chart. Modify...
Phonetic (Function)
Returns the phonetic transcription of the string passed as parameter.
dPixelColor (Function)
Identifies the color of a pixel: in an Image control. in an Image variable. in a picLayer...
Warning (Function)
Displays a custom message in a system warning window.
SSH functions
The following functions are used to connect and communicate with a SSH server:...
ComponentInfo (Example)
Usage example of the ComponentInfo function
RegistryFirstSubKey (Example)
Usage example of the RegistryFirstSubKey function
RegistryQueryValue (Example)
Usage example of the RegistryQueryValue function
TitleImage (Property)
The TitleImage property is used to get and/or change the image displayed next to the title...
WiFiActivate (Function)
Enables or disables Wi-Fi on the device.
WiFiStatus (Function)
Returns the current activation status of Wi-Fi on the device or asks to be notified...
RoundCeil (Function)
Returns: the value rounded up to the nearest integer. the duration rounded up to the nearest...
OrganizerMode (Function)
Returns the display mode of an Organizer control: day, week, month, ...
NFCWriteTag (Function)
Starts writing data to an NFC tag.
dbgError (Function)
Provokes: an assertion during the test of element or project (Go mode). an error in automated...
CameraDisplay (Function)
Displays the video being captured by a web camera or by the camera of a mobile device in a "Camera"...
TimeDifference (Function)
Calculates the difference between two times in hundredths of a second.