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Version: 2025

Tab order in a window, a page, etc.
The tab order of the controls found in a window or in a page describes the order in which the controls take focus in a window when the user presses the [Tabulation] key...
Viewing a window in 3 dimensions
Your window contains overlapping controls?...
The "Modifier"pane
The "Modifier" pane is used to view and/or modify, from the window editor, page editor or report editor, the main characteristics...
Skin template
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to customize the interface of your applications via several preset interfaces...
Handling the views of a window
To easily handle huge windows (that cannot be entirely displayed in the editor for example), WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to handle several views of the same window...
Snap to grid
The different editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to align the elements via a snap-on grid...
The "Window position preview" pane
The "Window position preview" pane is used to view and/or modify the opening position of the windows currently modified (according to the screen resolution used)...
Creating a skin template from an existing skin template
You can create a skin template from an existing skin template (provided by PC SOFT, for example)...
Enlarging a window or page
Modern UIs generally use larger windows, pages and fonts...
Testing a window
Testing a single window allows you to run the current window in WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile...
Special paste
The Special paste command is used to explicitly choose the format in which the clipboard content will be pasted in the window editor...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
Automatic positioning
When moving a control in a window, in a page or in a report, guides are automatically displayed by the real-time interface checker (also called automatic positioning)...
Spacing out a selection of controls
To create modern interfaces, you need to increase spacing between the controls in your windows...
Carrying over the differences from an element to another one
The project comparator is used to compare two elements and to list the differences found...
Zoom in the different editors
All editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to zoom in on the different elements displayed in the editor...
Interface checker
The advanced interface checker is a tool that allows you to improve the layout of controls in the different windows of the application...
Project comparator
Comparing two windows (two pages, two reports, two classes, ...
Alignment options
To optimize the alignment of controls in a window, page or report, you have the ability to use the alignment options...
Alignment rulers (Editor)
When creating or modifying a window in the window editor, you have the ability to display the alignment rulers...
Code statistics
The code statistics affect...
Creating a window skin template
Environment of the window editor
The main elements of window editor are as follows:
Copy between the editors
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to perform copies (or Drag and Drop) of controls between the products and their editors....
Copying controls from the report editor
The controls can be copied from the report editor......
Copying controls from the page editor
The controls can be copied from the page editor......
Copying controls from the window editor
The controls can be copied from the window editor......
Options of the window editor
To configure the general options of the window editor......
Handling menu options programmatically
The menu options can be handled......
Programming charts
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile include a Chart control (that can be used in the window editor, page editor and report editor) as well as several functions used to create and handle charts......
Information about a control found in a window or in a page
The window editor and the page editor allow you to get information about the controls used....
In depth look at windows, pages and reports
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV allow you to create custom interfaces with the window editor and the page editor......
Border of controls
One of the most important elements of control style is its border......
Live Data: viewing data in the editors
The "Live Data" is used to view the content of the data files in the controls currently created in the different editors of the product used (window editor, page editor, report editor, ......
Flexible modeling editor
The flexible modeling editor allows you to easily create a "non-restricting" and "flexible" modeling, entirely included in the environment......
Anchored move on the main axes
To facilitate the positioning of controls, you have the ability to force their move according to the four main axes (0°, 45°, 90°, 135°)....
Changing the characteristics of window controls
The characteristics of the controls can be viewed and/or changed in......
Clipboard with history
The clipboard stores the last 10 pieces of content cut or pasted (from any editor)......
Using the UI modification when running a project or window test
End users can directly modify the interface of the application (according to the options specified by the developer).......
Handling a status bar in the window editor
This help page presents the different operations that can be performed in a status bar......
2. User-friendly editors in practice
User-friendly editors in practice...
Installing OpenOffice
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose a spelling checker......
Types of help systems in a WINDEV application
There are multiple solutions to provide help to the users......
Custom context menu
Custom context menus are created in the window editor and can be handled programmatically......
4. UI: Windows
IU of windows...
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