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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...
Message
The Message keyword can correspond to: the Message function. the Message property, which is used to get and change the help message of a control or menu option in a window. the Message property available for: a SFError variable. the email structure. an Email variable. a Notification variable....
gglDrive (Type of Variable)
The type gglDrive allows handle Google Drive. To use a Variable of type gglDrive , it is necessary to connect to Google Drive via the function gglDrive Connect.
Project Management Hub: Overview
The Project Management Hub is used to organize and schedule a project, from design to delivery......
Tips for developing a site for an iPhone or for a BlackBerry
WEBDEV allows you to develop sites for all types of devices......
Comparison operators
The comparison operators can be divided into several categories......
FOR EACH/FOR ALL statement (loop through a variable of type XMLReader)
The FOR EACH statement loops through a variable of type xmlReader in various ways: Loop through a level. Loop through a level with copy. In-depth loop....
DriveMoveDirectory (Function)
Move a directory and its contents to another directory on the same Drive (remote disk).
MemoryFormat (Property)
The MemoryFormat property is used to get and change the format of the value returned for: Date or Time edit controls. Date or Time table columns. Calendar controls. Static controls. editable combo boxes. table columns displayed by combo boxes....
Plane (Property)
The Plane property is used to: Get: the active plane of a window (or report) or the plane to which a control belongs. the active plane of a WEBDEV element. Change: the active plane of a window (or report) or associate a control with another plane. the active plane of a WEBDEV element....
1. Examples provided with WINDEV Mobile
CalculatedItemExpression (Property)
The CalculatedItemExpression property is used to: Find out the SQL expression that defines the value of a calculated item. This item was defined in the data model editor or through programming. Define the SQL expression returning the value of a calculated item (when describing the item through programming)....
Toolbar and menu of the SCM
The different options of the SCM can be handled via the SCM toolbar or the options of a specific menu ("SCM" from the main menu of the product used)......
Managing the users of an application installed in network
The management of users allows you to find out from the server......
The different states of a Button control in a window
In WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile applications, Button controls can have multiple states......
ERR_NO_APPLICATION
Internal component
An internal component is a set of elements from a project......
oDriveConnect( Function)
Creates a connection to an Drive OneDrive.
Get (External language)
Retrieves the value of a control.
<redisConnection>.Set (Function)
Changes the value of a key on a Redis server.
fMakeDir (Function)
Creates a directory (and the intermediate directories if necessary).
10. Internal components in practice
Pinned area in a page: fixed area on the screen
A fixed area in a page is a page section that remains visible even if the Web user moves the browser scrollbar......
10. Page templates
Automatic Application Features (AAF) constants
List of constants used by the Automatic Application Features (AAF) functions....
Installing a WEBDEV cluster
A WEBDEV cluster is a set of servers (or server farm)......