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Version: 2025

WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
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...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
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
Database parameters (Setup program)
The setup program creation wizard includes the setup of the database along with the application and suggests additional elements......
<Image variable>.Pen (Function)
Declares the default color and style for the lines, rectangles, circles, ... in an Image variable.
<Image variable>.Font (Function)
Declares the font that will be used by dText in an Image variable.
<Image variable>.Background (Function)
Declares the default background color for the rectangles and circles, ... used in an Image variable.
<Image variable>.DrawLine (Function)
Draws a line in an Image variable.
<Image variable>.PixelColor (Function)
Identifies the color of a pixel contained in an Image variable.
<picLayer variable>.Fill (Function)
Colors an area in a picLayer variable.
NetListIPAddress (Function)
Returns the list of IP addresses (Internet Protocol) for a computer.
gpwMode (Function)
Returns the runtime mode of the User Groupware.
Native Oracle Connector: Programming with SQL functions
The SQL functions can be used to handle the ORACLE database, regardless of whether WDORAINS is used or not to configure the accessed database......
Constants for managing streams (sound and video)
List of constants used by the functions for managing the streams (sound and video)....
Managing mutexes in threads
A mutex is used to limit the simultaneous execution of a code (procedure, line of code, etc.) to one thread at a given time....
psheetSelection (Type of variable)
The psheetSelection type is used to find out the advanced characteristics of a selection in a Spreadsheet control.
'Image gallery' Looper control
The "Image gallery" Looper control is used to manage the display of a set of images without programming......
Synchronizing threads via events
Events can be used to synchronize the different threads of an application......
Image control in a page
<Image>.ChangeMode (Function)
Changes the drawing mode used by the drawing functions (dLine, dRectangle, ....).
dSaveImage (Function)
dSaveImage is kept for backward compatibility.
<WDPic variable>.EndDrawing (Function)
Deletes all the drawings made since the last call to dStartDrawing.
<picLayer variable>.StartDrawing (Function)
Indicates that the drawing functions that will be used are intended for the specified picLayer variable.
<WDPic variable>.PixelOpacity (Function)
Identifies the opacity of a pixel in a WDPic image with an Alpha channel.
<WDPic variable>.DrawRectangleGradient (Function)
Draws a rectangle in a WDPic variable.
<picLayer variable>.Rotation (Function)
Rotates an image in a picLayer variable.
<picLayer variable>.HorizontalSymmetry (Function)
Flips an image contained in a picLayer variable with respect to a horizontal axis (symmetry with respect to a horizontal axis).
<WDPic variable>.VerticalSymmetry (Function)
Flips an image contained in a WDPic variable (in the background layer) with respect to a vertical axis (symmetry with respect to a vertical axis).