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Version: 2025

Report based on a text file
In a report based on a text file, the information to print is read from a text file or is directly assigned in the report controls...
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
fListResource (Function)
Lists the resources integrated to the application.
HImportText (Function)
Imports a Text file into an HFSQL Classic or Client/Server data file. This data file must have been defined in the data model editor, or declared with HDeclare, HDeclareExternal or HDescribeFile).
<Source>.ImportText (Function)
Imports a Text file into an HFSQL Classic or Client/Server data file. This data file must have been defined in the data model editor, or declared with HDeclare, HDeclareExternal or HDescribeFile).
Handling the external files
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV propose several functions allowing you to manage the external files from your WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile applications or from your WEBDEV sites...
fBuildRelativePath (Function)
Returns the path to a file relative to a reference directory.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
fAddBuffer (Function)
Adds the content of a buffer at the end of a file.
fFind (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
<DiskFile variable>.Write (Function)
Writes:
  • a character string to an external file.
  • a memory section.
fLoadText (Function)
Loads the contents of a text file into any text field or variable (string variable, window edit control, report label field, etc.).
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
Print modes of a report
Several print modes are available for a report.
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
fWatchDirectory (Function)
Detects changes made to the contents of a directory.
fSaveText (Function)
Creates and fills a text file with the content of a text control or text variable (string variable, edit control in a window, Static Text control in a report, ...).
fWrite (Function)
Writes:
  • a character string to an external file.
  • a memory section.
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
fIsImage (Function)
Determines whether a file on disk or in a buffer corresponds to an image format recognized by WINDEV or WEBDEV.
fLoadBuffer (Function)
Loads the content of an external file (text, image, ...) in a buffer variable.
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
fWatchFile (Function)
Starts watching a file.
fSaveBuffer (Function)
Creates and fills a text file with the content of a string or buffer variable.
Result of a query in test mode
After its execution in test mode (see Running the query test), the result of the query can be...
ODBC driver for HFSQL Classic and for HFSQL Client/Server (Linux)
The ODBC driver for HFSQL Classic (single-user or multi-user) is used to access an HFSQL Classic database from an external database software that supports the accesses by ODBC......
Authentication via Active Directory
Kerberos is an authentication mode based on the use of tickets and secret keys......
AnimationDuration (Property)
The AnimationDuration property is used to know and define the length of time an animation takes to complete one cycle: in a Chart control. This duration is set to 30 hundredths of a second by default. in an infinite Progress Bar control. This duration is set to 200 hundredths of a second by default. in an Image Gallery Looper control....
fDirExist (Function)
Checks the existence of a directory.
Pyramid charts
Pyramid charts allow you to view data in descending order......
iOutputInfo (Type of variable)
The iOutputInfo type is used to get the details of a report print or export job, or the details of a print job performed programmatically from the report viewer.
BTAcceptConnection (Function)
Used to find out whether a Bluetooth radio accepts (or not) the requests for connection coming from the devices.
Thumbnail (Property)
The Thumbnail property is used to find out and modify the image displayed in thumbnail in a Thumbnail control.
XMLFindNamespaceByURI (Function)
Finds an XML namespace from its URI (Universal Resource Identifier) in a node and in the parents of this node.
PVTSelect (Function)
Allows you to find out the position of selected cells and to select cells in a Pivot Table control.
HInfoViewRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or to a group on an SQL view or on a materialized view.
BrowserMobile (Function)
Allows you to find out whether the browser used by the Web user is started on a mobile device.
<Word Processing>.Replace (Function)
Finds all the instances of a character string and replaces them with another string in a Word Processing control.
<Pivot table>.Select (Function)
Allows you to find out the position of selected cells and to select cells in a Pivot Table control.
<xmlNode variable>.FindNamespaceByURI (Function)
Finds an XML namespace from its URI (Universal Resource Identifier) in a node and in the parents of this node.
<emailIMAPSession variable>.AddFolder (Function)
Adds a folder into the messaging software using IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), ...
<Connection variable>.InfoViewRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or to a group on an SQL view or on a materialized view.
ExeRunning (Function)
Allows you to find out whether a 32-bit application is already run.
DomoStatus (Function)
Used to find out whether an electrical device (compatible with the X10 protocol) is switched on or off.
BTLE functions
The following functions are used to handle the Bluetooth Low Energy devices:...
UMC: Implementing and managing the "User Macro-Codes"
Regardless of the skill of the development team, the end user will always want to do something that has not been planned for......
WEBDEV: Improving accessibility
To make your WEBDEV sites accessible to the visually impaired, simply enter specific attributes in the fields ......
License agreement for Native Oracle Connector
License agreement for Native Oracle Connector...
Native SQL Server Connector license agreement
Native SQL Server Connector (also known as Native SQL Server Access) license agreement...
Page contexts
In a Windows application, the information relative to a window is stored with the window......