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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
CursorEnd (Property)
The CursorEnd property gets and sets the end position of the mouse selection range in the following controls: Edit control. Editable Combo Box. "Edit control" table column and "Editable Combo Box" table column. Word Processing control....
ImageState (Property)
The ImageState property is used to get and change the number of drawings in: The image associated with a button. The image of the cursor in a slider. The image associated with the button of a sidebar pane. The image associated with the button of a tab pane. The image associated with the Rating control. The image associated with a group in a Ribbon control. The image associated with a menu option....
InputType (Property)
The InputType property is used to identify or change the type of input supported by a control: Duration, Date, Numeric, etc.
ExeListProcess (Function)
Returns the list of applications currently run.
Handling RTF in an Edit control
Rich Text Format (RTF) is used to encode text and simplify exchange between applications......
Input (Function)
Displays a message allowing the user to type an information.
Management of PDF files
PDF is one of the most widely used formats for transmitting and storing electronic documents......
Printing a watermark text
A report (and a duplicate copy) can include an additional text in the format of a watermark, such as "Confidential" or "Duplicate" printed across the report....
RequestRefreshUIElement (Function)
Requests the execution of the "Request for refreshing the display" event of the specified element (and gives back control without waiting for the execution of the event).
Internal component
An internal component is a set of elements from a project......
WDInst: configuring the interface of setup program
By default, WDInst (the setup editor) proposes a standard setup program (the wallpaper corresponds to a gradient shade of blue and no slide is displayed......
How to retrieve the bugs or suggestions of my users?
The different Control Centers provided with WINDEV allow you to easily manage the user feedback for your applications......
Dark theme on mobile devices
The latest versions of mobile OSs allow you to switch applications to a dark theme to reduce battery consumption or to make the device easier to use in a low-light environment......
Managing emails with "Simple MAPI"
Simple MAPI simplifies the management of emails received by the hosting company......
8. Associating controls with data
Instant spotting of modified code/current code
The modified lines of code are immediately visible......
RequestUpdateUI (Function)
Requests the execution of the "Request for refreshing the display" event (and gives back control without waiting for the execution of the event). This function is kept for backward compatibility.
Resource (Property)
The Resource property is used to: find out the resources visible in a Scheduler control. find out the resource of the Scheduler control that corresponds to the specified index....
NbDayDisplayed (Property)
The NbDayDisplayed property is used to: get and change the number of days displayed in an Organizer or Scheduler control. get the number of days displayed in a Gantt Chart control in a report....
OriginWaypoint (Property)
The OriginWaypoint property is used to get and define the origin of points whose coordinates are specified in the WayPoint property.
Clickable (Property)
The Clickable property gets and sets the behavior of an Image control when it is clicked.
GraduationYSecondary (Property)
The Property GraduationYSecondaire allows you to know the step of the graduation on the secondary Y axis.
Native SQL Server Connector for WINDEV and WEBDEV
WINDEV and WEBDEV support an optional Native SQL Server Connector (also called Native SQL Server Access)......
How to contact the Free Technical Support?
The different methods to contact PC SOFT Technical Support....
RequestUpdateUIParent (Function)
Asks to run the "Request for refreshing the display" process of parent. This function is kept for backward compatibility.