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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
grScatterLinkPoint (Function)
Links (or not) the points found in a "Scatter" chart.
XMLExecuteXPath (Example)
Usage example of the XMLExecuteXPath function
CheckBoxAdd (Function)
Adds a new option into a Check Box control.
OrganizerDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all the appointments from an Organizer control.
OrganizerPosition (Function)
Displays an Organizer control from a specified date or returns the date of the first day (or the date of the last day) displayed in an Organizer control.
CalendarSelectMinus (Function)
Deselects a date in a multi-selection Calendar control.
ExecuteProcess (Function)
Starts the execution of a process programmatically, i.e. without the user having to perform any particular action in the interface.
BurnerEject (Function)
Opens or closes the door of current burner.
Source (Property)
The Source property can be used on: a Chart control: in this case, the Source property is used to get the source of the series: Table column, list of values, ... a connection: in this case, the Source property is used to get or set the source of a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB, etc.)....
zipCurrentFile (Function)
Returns the name of the archived file currently handled by the functions for adding and extracting files.
PositionToLine (Function)
Returns the number of the line that contains a character identified by its position in a block of text.
StringReverse (Function)
Reverses the characters of a string.
fDelete (Function)
Deletes a file accessible from the current computer.
iFont (Function)
Selects the default font.
LooperSort (Function)
Allows you to: Sort a Looper control according to one or more attributes. Sort a Looper control on all its attributes. Cancel a sort that was performed beforehand (which means ignore the sort)....
HDescribeItem (Function)
Describes a file item through programming.
Replace (Function)
Replaces all occurrences of a specified substring in a string with another specified substring.
grDeleteSeries (Function)
Deletes a data series from a chart.
grInfoXY (Function)
Returns information about the series found at a specific chart point.
<String type>.Replace (Function)
Replaces all occurrences of a specified substring in a string with another specified substring.
Legend (Property)
The Legend property is used to: Find out the label of a series. Modify the label of a series....
Thickness (Property)
The Thickness property is used to: Find out the thickness of the line for a series (Line charts only). Modify the thickness of the line for a series (Line charts only)....
iCreateFont (Function)
Creates a new print font.
EndProgram (Function)
Ends the execution of the current program.
OrganizerListAppointment (Function)
Returns: the list of appointments found between two dates in an Organizer control, all appointments found in an Organizer control, a specific appointment (selected or hovered)....