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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...
AttributeSerialize (Property)
The AttributeSerialize property gets the serialization name of the type according to its name and the <Serialize> extension attribute.
SystemBarColor (Property)
The SystemBarColor property is used to get or change the system bar color in full-screen windows on mobile devices.
InternalWindowPopup (Property)
The InternalWindowPopup property is used to get and modify the name of the internal window used to customize the content of marker popups in a Map control.
InternalPagePopup (Property)
The InternalPagePopup property is used to get and modify the name of the internal page used to customize the content of marker popups in a Map control.
DoubleClick (Property)
The DoubleClick property is used to get and change the name of the Button control that will be executed when a control is double-clicked.
SourceWindow (Property)
The SourceWindow property is used to get the source of an internal window (i.e. the internal window displayed by the Internal Window control).
NbAnimationSteps (Property)
The NbAnimationSteps property is used to get and specify the number of drawings in the image that defines the animation of a custom infinite Progress Bar control.
Effect (Property)
Use in the GuidedVisitStage class - Access in get + Write - Type: Integer32
<xlsDocument variable>.UnmergeCell (Function)
Unmerges a given cell.
fLoadResource (Function)
Loads the content of a resource from a library.
fDriveReady (Function)
Determines: if a given drive (storage card, CD or DVD) is available, whether the drive exists....
<xlsDocument variable>.MergeCell (Function)
Merges the specified cells in an Excel document.
fDetectRemovableStorage (Function)
Detects whether a removable storage unit (CD, USB key, USB camera, ...) was added or removed.
Multi-database queries
A query (typed in SQL code) can operate on different databases......
Message (Property)
The Message property is used to: Find out the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window). Modify the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window)....
XImage (Property)
The XImage property is used to get and change the initial X-coordinate of the image section that will be displayed in an Image control or in the background of a Chart control.
YImage (Property)
The YImage property is used to get and change the initial Y-coordinate of the image section that will be displayed in an Image control or in the background of a Chart control.
Project portfolio
From version 25, you can create "project portfolios"......
Italic (Property)
The Italic property is used to: Find out whether a Font variable is in italic type. Modify the italic attribute of a Font variable....
MenuIsMarked (Function)
Used to find out whether a checkmark is displayed in front of a menu option (popup menu or drop-down menu).
IsNumeric (Function)
Enables you to find out whether a variable or a control is: a numeric (integer, real, currency or numeric). a string that can be converted into numeric....
EmailAddFolder (Function)
Adds a folder into the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol), ...).
EmailSeekFirst (Function)
Finds one or more emails according to the criteria specified in the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol, ...).
<WDPic variable>.VerticalSymmetry (Function)
Flips an image contained in a WDPic variable (in the background layer) with respect to a vertical axis (symmetry with respect to a vertical axis).
Project Management Hub: New/Fixed incidents
To improve project monitoring, the Project Management Hub shows the evolution of new and fixed incidents over a given period of time, by one or multiple contributors......