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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
HSetIntegrity (Function)
Enables or disables the management of an integrity constraint on a file link.
2. Projects in practice
Discover the main operations that can be performed on a project....
iSkipPage (Function)
Generates a page break: the corresponding code is sent to the printer queue.
HCreateMasterReplica (Function)
Creates the description file of a Master Replica (logged replication or universal replication).
iSkipLine (Function)
Forces one or more line break.
Database (Property)
The Database property is used to manage databases associated with a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB, etc.)....
Infinite Progress Bar control
Progress bars provide useful information to the end user......
Automatic error handling
Error handling can be customized for each process......
Handling a Conceptual Data Model (CDM)
The main operations that can be performed on a CDM are as follows......
User (Property)
The User property is used to manage the user of a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB, etc.)....
HCreateSubscriberReplica (Function)
Creates the description file of a subscriber replica.
iMargin (Function)
Defines the "logical" print margins.
NbDescribedThumbnail (Property)
The NbDescribedThumbnail property is used to get the number of thumbnails expected for an item.
The Web Component control
The Web Component control is used to include any external Web resource in a WEBDEV site......
Component (Property)
The Component property configures the different components of a composite key.
Creating your own User Macro-Codes
The User Macro-Codes are sections of WLanguage code allowing the end user to customize his application......
Provider (Property)
The Provider property is used to manage the type of a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB, etc.)....
Compile (Function)
Dynamically compiles an Procedure whose source code is provided (dynamic compilation).
Compression (Property)
The Compression property is used to manage data compression during a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, etc.)...
FicEncryption (Property)
The FicEncryption property is used to set the encryption method of a data file.
InfoThumbnailGeneration (Property)
The InfoThumbnailGeneration property is used to determine if the thumbnails of an item have been generated successfully.
Android application: Using and sharing SQLite data
For the Android applications, the available databases are HFSQL (Classic and Client/Server) and SQLite....
HOpenConnection (Function)
Opens a connection to a specific database.
MmoEncryption (Property)
The MmoEncryption property is used to set the encryption method of the memo file (.MMO) associated with the data file.
NdxEncryption (Property)
The NdxEncryption property is used to configure the encryption method for the index (.NDX) file associated with the data file.