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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
ValidatePassword (Function)
Indicates whether the specified password is valid for the current user.
StackInfo (Function)
Retrieves the characteristics of a stack: types of elements and number of elements.
QueueInfo (Function)
Retrieves the characteristics of a queue: types of elements and number of elements.
HInfoFileRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or to a group on an HFSQL Client/Server data file....
StringToUTF8 (Function)
Converts an ANSI or UNICODE string to UTF-8.
HStatDate (Function)
Returns the date of the last update for the index statistics.
HGetCurrentPosition (Function)
Returns the approximate position of current record in the data file.
grPieStartAngle (Function)
Indicates the start angle of first section in a Pie chart, Semi-circular chart or Donut chart.
The "Radar" charts
The Radar chart is used to highlight a series according to another one......
CalendarPosition (Function)
Returns the month displayed in a Calendar control.
BurnerProperty (Function)
Used to find out and modify the properties of the current burner.
BurnerAddFile (Function)
Adds a file to the compilation.
ControlClone (Function)
Creates a new control from an existing control.
InUMCMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run from a code written in a user macro-code.
LastDayOfMonth (Function)
Returns the date of the last day for the specified month.
ListCount (Function)
Returns the number of elements in a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control.
ThreadExecute (Function)
Starts the execution of a secondary thread.
NbPendingThread (Property)
The NbPendingThread property is used to get the number of pending threads in a queue or in a stack.
SchedulerDeleteResource (Function)
Deletes a resource from a Scheduler control.
CurrentMonth (Function)
Returns the number of the current month.
HInfoServerRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or group of users on a server.
HStatTime (Function)
Returns the time of the last update for the index statistics.
InitParameter (Function)
Initializes the management of persistent values.
iBorder (Example)
Usage example of the iBorder function
ListSelect (Function)
Returns the index of the selected element in a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control.