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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
OKCancel (Function)
Displays a message in a standard dialog box that proposes "OK" and "Cancel" and returns the user's choice....
iColumnNum (Function)
Returns the number of the current column in a multi-column report.
HActivateServerTrigger (Function)
Re-enables a server trigger that was disabled by HDeactivateServerTrigger.
HDeleteServerTrigger (Function)
Deletes a server trigger.
DescribedName (Property)
The DescribedName property is used to handle the logical name of HFSQL data files (ignoring possible changes made by HAlias).
PhysicalName (Property)
The PhysicalName property is used to manage the physical name of HFSQL data files.
DescribedPhysicalName (Property)
The DescribedPhysicalName property is used to manage the physical name of HFSQL data files.
TextItemCompleted (Property)
The TextItemCompleted property is used to manage text items in an HFSQL data file.
HDeactivateServerTrigger (Function)
Disables a HFSQL Client/Server server trigger on a server....
RTFToHTML (Function)
Returns the HTML string corresponding to the specified RTF string.
22 tips for optimizing the speed of a site
When a site is on-lined, one of the main expectations of Web users is speed......
iEndPrinting (Function)
Signals the end of the document to print and actually starts printing the data stored in the printer spooler via the following functions: iPrint, iPrintImage, iNewLine, etc.
Color palettes
The color palettes are an easy way to customize the visual aspect of a site......
HReset (Function)
Initializes: one or all variables of file items with their default values. one or all items of a Record variable with their default values....
Operations performed on use case diagrams
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ReplicOpen (Function)
Opens a replication in direct mode or with a replication server.
Operations performed on collaboration diagrams
The following paragraphs explain......
Format (Property)
The Format property is used to define the data format of a data file.
iPageEnd (Function)
Forces the move to the next page during the report print.
Operations performed on object diagrams
The following paragraphs explain......
Overloading a WLanguage function or using a WLanguage function in an SQL query
WLanguage includes the "WL" keyword......
MatchRegularExpression (Function)
Checks whether a character string matches a specific format and retrieves the different substrings that match the format.
The "Bubble" charts
A bubble chart shows the correlation between three variables via bubbles of different sizes: categories and values on the X and Y axes and an additional parameter. The size of the bubble indicates the value of this third parameter.
HCreationIfNotFound (Function)
Performs the following operations: If the file does not exist, creates an empty data file (".FIC" file) with the index file and the memo file if necessary. The function is equivalent to HCreation. If the file exists, opens the file....
grDestinationControl (Function)
Defines an Image control as destination of a chart.