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 WINDEVWEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2025

Specific page for displaying the site errors
If an error occurs in the dynamic WEBDEV website, a standard error page is displayed by default. This page informs the Web user of the error that occurred in the site.
Site testing: the different types of tests available
WEBDEV includes multiple methods for testing your sites...
DynamicSiteDisplay (Function)
Starts a dynamic WEBDEV website from a static page or from a dynamic WEBDEV page.
Testing a dynamic project from the administrator
Running the test from the WEBDEV administrator (WDAdmin) is used to check ...
The different types of sites
WEBDEV enables you to create static sites and/or dynamic sites...
Testing a dynamic project (session or AWP mode) from WEBDEV
The test of the entire project allows simulating the startup of the site...
Managing short URLs automatically
For the standard dynamic sites (with context), the access to the site can be done via a "standard" URL:
Differences according to the test mode of a dynamic project
The test of a dynamic project can be run ...
Check: Activity of an application
The monitoring robot proposes to check the activity of a WINDEV application......
Handling external JavaScript objects from WLanguage
The WLanguage in "Browser" mode is used to interface with the Web APIs such as the ones proposed by Google or Yahoo......
Binding a Slider control to an item
A Slider control can be bound to an item in a data file, query, etc....
NbKeyItem (Property)
The NbKeyItem property is used to get the total number of key items (including composite keys) in a record of: a file described in the data model editor, a file described through programming, an HFSQL view, a query....
Text formatting variant
You can customize text attributes such as character spacing, line spacing and font size in a window or page......
The Layout control
The Layout control simplifies the implementation of dynamic UIs where controls are displayed and/or hidden programmatically......
WDSQL: Creating and running a script
A script is a set of SQL commands used to perform a specific operation (create a new table in the database, insert records, ......
WDInst: configuring the characteristics of the file setup
WDInst is used to configure the installation of files......
<Source>.ReadSeek (Function)
Sets the position on the first record whose value for a specific item is greater than or equal to a sought value (generic search).
HReadSeek (Function)
Sets the position on the first record whose value for a specific item is greater than or equal to a sought value (generic search).
LINUX: Accessing the ODBC databases
The native access to HFSQL Classic and Client/Server is available for the WINDEV applications running in Linux ("console" applications) and for the WEBDEV sites hosted in Linux......
Controlling the WEBDEV Application Server
Starting with version 28, you can remotely control the WEBDEV Application Server......
2. User-friendly editors in practice
Error 110: The ASCIIZ string is too long
Error 109: The fixed string is too long
RibbonAdaptSize (Function)
Adapts the size of the controls found in a Ribbon control according to the size of their caption.
<Window>.ToFile (Function)
Automatically updates: the values of a data file's items in memory with the values from the controls in the window. The data file items bound to the window controls are automatically updated with the values of these controls. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the window controls. The WLanguage variables bound to the window controls are automatically updated with the values of these controls. This function is also available for WEBDEV pages....
PageToSource (Function)
Automatically updates: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
<Page>.ToSource (Function)
Automatically initializes: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
<Source>.FromPage (Function)
Automatically updates: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
SourceFromPage (Function)
Automatically updates: the value of the items in a data file with the value of the controls in the page. the value of the WLanguage variables with the value of the page controls....
Binding a Progress Bar control to an item
A Progress Bar control can be bound to an item in a data file, query, etc....
The Static control
A Static control is a control used to display a static text......
WinUsefulSize (Function)
Specifies the useful size of an internal window with automatic scrollbars. The useful size corresponds to the full size of the internal window: Width of the internal window. Height of the internal window....
zipSize (Function)
Returns the size of archive (in ZIP, RAR, CAB, WDZ or 7z format): the size of all compressed files found in the archive. the size of all files found in the archive before compression....