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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
geoAzimuth (Function)
Returns the direction represented by a location in relation to another one.
MapDeleteMarker (Function)
Deletes a marker from a map displayed by a Map control.
ChangeSeparator (Function)
Changes the value of the separators (decimal separator or thousand separator) used in the numeric masks for internationalization.
geoGetAddress (Function)
Retrieves an address or a list of addresses corresponding to the description of a geographic location.
Sound (Function)
Plays a sound in WAV format.
iParameter (Function)
Retrieves the printer configuration and configures the print.
ToClipboard (Function)
Writes text or image information into the system clipboard.
gAlignment (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters containing an aligned text or an aligned image.
ControlPrevious (Function)
Specifies the name of control that was in edit before the current control.
SeriesColor (Property)
The SeriesColor property is used to: Find out the color of a series in a chart. Modify the color of a series in a chart....
HErrorDuplicates (Function)
Used to check whether a duplicate error occurred.
gFont (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters describing the font that will be used for the text.
OrganizerDeleteAppointment (Function)
Deletes an appointment from an Organizer control.
LooperDelete (Function)
Deletes a row from a Looper control.
LooperSelectMinus (Function)
Deselects a row in a Looper control.
SaveParameter (Function)
Saves a persistent value in the registry or in another file specified by InitParameter.
Manipulating WEBDEV menu options
The context menu of menu options allows you to perform all the operations required to define a drop-down menu......
LoadParameter (Function)
Reads a persistent value.
gFontItalic (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether or not the text that follows the call to this function is in italic type.
gFontUnderlined (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters to specify whether or not the text that follows the call to this function is underlined.
grPointInfo (Function)
Returns the screen coordinates of a point or the screen coordinates of a value found in a chart.
AutoRefresh (Property)
The AutoRefresh property is used to: Find out whether the data found in the series is automatically recalculated whenever grDraw is called Modify the mode for recalculating the data found in the series....
grSourceCategoryLabel (Function)
Defines the source of the category labels.
HIndexingInProgress (Function)
Indicates that a reindex operation is currently performed on an HFSQL data file and returns the percentage of reindexing already performed.
MapAddItinerary (Function)
Adds an itinerary onto a Map control.