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Version: 2025

Creating a window skin template
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...
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...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
Non-modal management of a window
The window that opens another window is called parent window ; the windows opened by the parent window are called child windows......
The Date edit control: Input or display masks
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV propose two types of masks......
IWListDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all the internal windows from the list of internal windows browsed by an Internal Window control.
Repositionable note (AAF)
End users can create repositionable notes in all the windows of their WINDEV applications......
5. Swipe gestures in a window
WINDEV Mobile Tutorial: Developing an Android and iOS application Lesson 5 - Swipe gestures in a window - 20 min
TableAdjust (Function)
Adjusts the title and size of columns found in a Table or TreeView Table control.
SortOption (Property)
The SortOption property gets and sets the sort options used in: text columns in Table controls, text columns in Treeview Table controls, List Box and ListView controls, Combo Box controls, attributes of Looper controls, images, clickable images and thumbnails with automatic sequence....
Generating an application for Universal Windows 10 App
Installing WINDEV/WEBDEV/WINDEV Mobile: Complying with the directory standard
The different Windows versions propose standard regarding the location of some files and the use of directories......
1. WLanguage functions
Most of the WLanguage functions available in WINDEV are also available in WINDEV Mobile....
WDAPI overview
WDAPI simplifies the use of Windows APIs in a WINDEV application......
The Organization Chart control
The Organization Chart control is used to represent elements in a hierarchical way. For example: the contributors of a company according to their position. the different branches of a group with their inter-dependencies. the different steps of a manufacturing process, ......
TableEnumColumn (Function)
Returns the name of a column found in a Table or Treeview Table control.
Interactive notifications
A notification is a small window that appears at the bottom right of the screen, and that can be viewed at any time in the Windows notification area......
Using C# code
You can use C# code in WINDEV applications (Windows applications and components, .NET assemblies......
IWListCount (Function)
Returns the number of internal windows currently found in the list of internal windows browsed by an Internal Window control.
Drag and Drop from the explorer
The Drag and Drop from the explorer consists in selecting one or more files in the Windows explorer and in transferring them into a control of a WINDEV window......
OpenSister (Function)
Opens a non-modal sibling window.
DisplayedItem (Property)
The DisplayedItem property is used to: Find out the item or the variable displayed by the control. Modify the item or the variable displayed by the control....
<Internal window>.ChangeSourceWindow (Function)
Dynamically changes the window displayed in an Internal Window control. Scrolling internal windows: Modifies the window currently displayed. This modification is saved in the list of internal windows to scroll....
ChangeSourceWindow (Function)
Dynamically changes the window displayed in an Internal Window control. Scrolling internal windows: Modifies the window currently displayed. This modification is saved in the list of internal windows to scroll....
5. Android and iOS windows: Characteristics
WINDEV Mobile offers the possibility to configure the characteristics of the windows....
CreateShortcut (Function)
Creates a shortcut on the Windows desktop, in the "Start" menu of Windows or in a specific directory.
System functions
List of system functions...