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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
HFileExist (Function)
Determines: whether a file exists, which means whether it was physically created (HCreation or HCreationIfNotFound). whether a view or a query was defined....
HListTrigger (Function)
Returns the list of triggers applied to one or more HFSQL data files.
zipAddFile (Function)
Adds a file (of any type) into an archive in CAB, ZIP, WDZ and 7z, TAR or TGZ (TAR.GZ) format and compresses it.
ProjectInfo (Function)
Returns specific information about the project currently run.
zipExtractPath (Function)
Returns the path of a file found in the archive.
fMerge (Function)
Merges several files into a single one.
HInfoAnalysis (Function)
Returns information about an analysis (WDD file).
DDESend (Function)
Sends a data to the program connected via DDE.
iPageHeightLeft (Function)
Calculates the available height (in millimeters) left on the current page while taking into account the defined margins (top or bottom).
SQLExec (Function)
Names and runs an SQL query.
ConfirmAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a non-blocking message in a standard dialog box with the answers "Yes", "No", "Cancel" and calls a WLanguage procedure with the user's response....
zipAddDirectory (Function)
Adds all the files found in a directory and in its subdirectories into an archive and compresses them.
CurrentIndex (Function)
Depending on the specified control, returns: the number of the current row displayed in the current Table control, the number of the option with focus in a Check Box control, the number of the current row in the current Looper control, the index of the current indexed control....
LineSpacing (Property)
The LineSpacing property gets and sets the line spacing for variables of type Font.
HDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all records from a data file, an HFSQL view or a query.
grOrigin (Function)
Modifies the start and end marks on one of the chart axes.
Report based on a data file
A report based on a data file is used to print the records coming from a single data file (HFSQL Classic or Client/Server, accessed via a Native Access, ......
fRead (Function)
Reads: a block of bytes (characters) in an external file (ANSI or Unicode), the content of an external file (ANSI or Unicode) and assigns it to a memory area....
fDate (Function)
Returns or modifies the different dates associated with a file or directory (date created, modified or accessed).
Constants used by the TraceStart function
List of constants used by the TraceStart function....
OKCancelAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a message in a standard non-blocking dialog box with the answers "OK" and "Cancel" and calls a WLanguage procedure with the user's response....
Now (Function)
Returns or modifies the system time (current time defined for the current computer).
BankHolidayList (Function)
Returns the list of the public holidays defined by BankHolidayAdd.
ServiceStop (Function)
Stops a service.
HDeleteSet (Function)
Deletes a set of stored procedures from an HFSQL server.