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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
ExecuteCode (Function)
Runs the WLanguage code found in a character string.
Access (Property)
The Access property is used to manage the type of access of a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB, etc.)....
HDeclare (Function)
Declares a description of data file (found in an analysis) in the current project.
HActivateFilter (Function)
Enables the filter that was previously created for the specified data file (view or query).
xmlDocument (Type of variable)
The xmlDocument type is used to handle an XML file.
ListAdd (Function)
Adds an element to a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control populated programmatically.
NbLabel (Property)
The NbLabel property is used to: Find out the number of labels printed across the page width. Modify the number of labels printed across the page width....
NullAllowed (Property)
The NullAllowed property is used to manage the NULL value in the items of HFSQL data files.
File Description (Type of variable)
The File Description variable is used to programmatically describe data files.
HReadPrevious (Function)
Sets the position on the previous record of a file according to a browse item.
Configuring the Apache server (1.3.x and 2.0.x)
WEBDEV Development: Configuring the Apache 1.3.x or 2.0.x server for the CGI protocol and for the WEBDEV sites....
Operations performed on sequence diagrams
The following paragraphs explain......
Data source (Type of variable)
A Data source variable is used to describe a temporary data source (query, view, alias, ...)
Indirection operators
The { and } operators are used to access a control, a variable, a class member or a file item by dynamically building the name of control, variable, class member or item...
Operations performed on deployment diagrams
The following paragraphs explain......
AccentSensitive (Property)
The AccentSensitive property is used to determine if accented characters are taken into account in the different searches performed on the item (with HReadSeek, HReadSeekFirst and HReadSeekLast, for example).
HReadFirst (Function)
Sets the position on the first record according to a browse item.
Report based on an SQL query with data accessed via a connection (ODBC, etc.)
A report based on an SQL query with data accessed via a connection can print records from a database accessible via a specific ODBC driver or via a Native Connector......
HChangeDir (Function)
Changes the path to a data file (i.e. directory in which the file will be handled).
12. Pages in practice
Display modes of Tab control
To optimize the style of your tabs, you have the ability to use images and colors......
xmlNode (Type of variable)
The xmlNode type is used to handle a node of an XML document.
EvaluateExpression (Function)
Evaluates the value of an expression built in a character string.
MemCreate (Function)
Creates a memory area.
HReadLast (Function)
Sets the position on the last record of a data file according to a browse item.