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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...
<Upload>.CopyFile (Function)
Saves on the server a file "uploaded" by the Web user. This upload may have been performed: via an "Upload" edit control. via a single-file or multi-file Upload control....
<Upload>.FileName (Function)
Returns the name of a file "uploaded" by the Web user. This upload may have been performed: via an "Upload" edit control. via a single-file or multi-file Upload control....
UploadFileName (Function)
Returns the name of a file "uploaded" by the Web user. This upload may have been performed: via an "Upload" edit control. via a single-file or multi-file Upload control....
UploadCopyFile (Function)
Saves on the server a file "uploaded" by the Web user. This upload may have been performed: via an "Upload" edit control. via a single-file or multi-file Upload control....
ToolTip (Property)
The ToolTip property is used to get and change the text displayed in the tooltip associated with a window or page control.
SNMPLoadMIB (Function)
Loads a MIB file in memory and analyzes it.
AAF: Sort/Search/Filter on the columns of Table controls
HExtractMemo (Function)
Extracts the content of a binary memo item from an HFSQL file, a query or an HFSQL view to a physical file (on disk).
Native SQLite Connector: Programming with SQL functions
The use of SQL functions to handle SQLite data does not require importing the data file structure into the analysis....
Window control search functions
WINDEV allows the user to perform a search among all the texts found in a window or in a control......
4. Monitor your applications
OCRDetectTextArea (Function)
Returns all text areas of an image without reading the text.
Management of PDF files
PDF is one of the most widely used formats for transmitting and storing electronic documents......
MVP: Simple single-file example: Table + Linked file
Let's see a simple and illustrated example about the use of MVP to create a Table window with its linked form......
LooperToXML (Function)
Creates an XML file with data from a Looper control (Looper control based on a data file or populated programmatically).
Unalterable (Property)
The Unalterable property is used to configure the unalterability of a data file: the data file cannot be modified; only additions can be made.
<Looper>.ToXML (Function)
Creates an XML file with data from a Looper control (Looper control based on a data file or populated programmatically).
<Source>.DuplicateRecord (Function)
Duplicates the record read in a data file: the record found in memory is added into the data file (query or view).
<Source>.ExtractMemo (Function)
Extracts the content of a binary memo item from an HFSQL file, a query or an HFSQL view to a physical file (on disk).
Error 404: The file for HFSQL browse cannot be an expression of this type
Multiselection (Property)
The Multiselection property gets and sets the selection mode: in a Table and TreeView Table control. in a Pivot Table control. in a List Box and ListView control. in a Looper control. in a Calendar control. of files in an Upload control....
Managing iconic fonts
Include special characters in your captions via the iconic fonts....
HFSQL Client/Server: Configuring the data files on the server
HAdd (Function)
Adds: the record found in memory into the data file (query or view). the record found in a Record variable into the data file (query or view)....
Automated tests of window
The automated tests of window are used to check the different features proposed by the window......