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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...
2. Deploying a static site or a PHP site
<xlsDocument variable>.AddWorksheet (Function)
Adds or inserts a new worksheet into an Excel document.
DownloadInfo (Type of variable)
The DownloadInfo type is used to read the different details about a download in progress retrieved by DownloadGetInfo.
Hour (Property)
The Hour property is used to: Get the time from a variable of type Time or DateTime, or the number of hours from a variable of type Duration. Change the time in a variable of type Time or DateTime, or the number of hours in a variable of type Duration. Retrieve the time or the number of hours from a Date item (in "Date and time" or "Duration" format) or from a Time item. Modify the time or the number of hours in a Date item (in "Date and time" or "Duration" format) or in a Time item....
Migrating a WEBDEV site to PHP
To migrate a WEBDEV site to PHP......
Specific features of Android applications
The development of Android and WINDEV Mobile applications is different in the following fields......
Movable (Property)
The Movable property is used to: Find out whether a table column can be moved by the user, Allow and/or forbid a table column to be moved by the user....
5. User Groupware in practice
Handling incoming or outgoing faxes
To send and receive faxes directly from an WINDEV application or a WEBDEV site, several functions allow you to handle faxes via the fax server available in Windows XP and Windows 2000......
5. Deploying a dynamic site (Session or AWP) in practice
Pane (Property)
The Pane property is used to: Find out the pane tabs associated with a control. Define the pane tabs associated with a control....
OCRAddLanguage (Function)
Adds a language to the native OCR system.
DashDelete (Function)
Deletes a widget displayed in a Dashboard control. The Dashboard control is updated and a free location replaces the deleted widget.
<Dashboard>.Delete (Function)
Deletes a widget displayed in a Dashboard control. The Dashboard control is updated and a free location replaces the deleted widget.
Bold (Property)
The Bold property is used to: Find out whether a Font variable is bold. Modify the bold attribute of a Font variable....
LabelHeight (Property)
The LabelHeight property is used to: Find out the height of labels in a Label report. Modify the height of labels in a Label report....
LabelWidth (Property)
The LabelWidth property is used to: Find out the width of labels in a "Label" report. Modify the width of labels in a "Label" report....
ListViewMode (Property)
The ListViewMode property is used to: Find out the display mode of a ListView control. Modify the display mode of a ListView control....
AnchorRateHeight (Property)
The AnchorRateHeight property is used to: Find out the vertical anchor rate of a control. Modify the vertical anchor rate of a control....
Sharing internal components (via SCM)
An internal component is a set of elements from a project......
Border (Property)
The Border property is used to get and change the characteristics of the borders: for a report control or block. for a window control. for a cell of a Table control....
BackgroundImageLine (Property)
The BackgroundImageLine property is used to get and change the background image of each row: of a Table control, of a TreeView Table control, of a Looper control....
SecondaryAxis (Property)
The SecondaryAxis property is used to: determine whether a chart series is on the secondary axis. set the position of a chart series on the secondary axis....
ProgressBarSystem (Property)
The ProgressBarSystem property is used to get and change the progress bar used as system progress bar (in the taskbar) with Windows 7 (and later).
DayHeight (Property)
The DayHeight property is used to get and change the height of days in a Scheduler control where days are arranged in rows, and resources are arranged in columns.