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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)...
Creating an executable without library
When creating an executable, you can choose not to use a library or not to include all the elements of the project in the library...
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...
Anchoring applied to window controls
The windows of a WINDEV application can be resized at runtime...
Creating a window skin template
OLE DB provider for HFSQL
The OLE DB provider on HFSQL is used to access an HFSQL database (Classic or Client/Server) from an external software that manages the accesses by OLE DB......
MultimediaReader (Property)
The MultimediaReader property is used to get and change the media player currently used by a Multimedia control to play media files.
DndTarget (Property)
The DndTarget property determines and changes how a control behaves in a drag-and-drop operation.
DndSource (Property)
The DndSource property is used to determine and change a control's drag-and-drop behavior....
Using ODBC on HFSQL Classic via JDBC
The ODBC driver on HFSQL Classic is used to access a HFSQL Classic database from an external database software that supports ODBC accesses......
AutoCorrect (Property)
The AutoCorrect property allows you to define a set of automatic corrections to be applied in a Word Processing control as the user types.
IgnoreError (Property)
The IgnoreError property gets and sets the different certificate errors ignored by the HTML Display and WEBDEV Page controls.
ODBC on HFSQL via Visual .NET (in C#)
The ODBC driver on HFSQL Classic (single-user and multi-user) is used to access a HFSQL Classic database from an external database software that supports ODBC accesses......
The pages
Pages are the main interface of a WEBDEV site......
Importing an HTML page into a WEBDEV site
WEBDEV allows you "suck up" the existing HTML pages......
Select query: Displaying the first/last n records
The editor of Select queries is used to limit the number of records that will be displayed in the result of the query....
Control Center of WINDEV executables (WDADMINEXE)
When a WINDEV application is installed in network, a program used to remotely check the application executables is automatically created......
Natif Informix Connector for WINDEV and WEBDEV
WINDEV and WEBDEV propose an optional Native Connector to Informix (also called Native Access......
WINDEV and the communication streams (audio, sound)
To handle the communication streams, WINDEV includes......
Creating a WINDEV SOAP Server application
The SOAP Server application is an application containing all the procedures to run......
WINDEV 2024 Tutorial - Table of contents
WINDEV 2024: New WLanguage features
In version 27, new functions, properties and data types have been introduced and some have been improved......
The Captcha control
The "captcha" are the distorted texts that the Web user must decode and re-enter in a site before validating a form....
AnchorRateWidth (Property)
The AnchorRateWidth property is used to: Find out the anchor rate when a control (or a table column) stretches on the horizontal axis. Modify the anchor rate when a control (or a table column) stretches on the horizontal axis....
ExecuteUpdateUIParent (Function)
Immediately executes the "Request for refreshing the display" event of the parent. This function is kept for backward compatibility.
CheckmarkVisible (Property)
The CheckmarkVisible property is used to: Determine whether a checkmark is displayed to the left of a row in a TreeView control. Show or hide a checkmark to the left of a row in a TreeView control....
COMObject (Type of variable)
The COMObject type is used to represent an interface of a COM object.
DisplayEvenIfNull (Property)
The DisplayEvenIfNull property is used to: Determine whether a row or column in a Pivot Table control is displayed even if it contains no value. Show or hide a row or column in a Pivot Table control if it does not contain any values....
MaxLeafPerRow (Property)
The MaxLeafPerRow property is used to get and change the maximum number of elements in a row in an Organization Chart control.
Printing in PDF format: Special cases
Specific features of print in PDF format...