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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
InVGAMode (Function)
Indicates whether the application is run in VGA mode on a mobile device.
Member (Property)
When used on Variant variables, the Member property is used to get the array of named elements.
HCompareItem (Function)
Compares two values by sorting them according to the specified HFSQL index item: all the sort options specified for the item are taken into account (sensitivity to the case, to the punctuation, sort direction, Unicode language, ...).
ExtractLine (Function)
Extracts a specific line from a character string.
OCRDetectTextArea (Function)
Returns all text areas of an image without reading the text.
iLastFile (Function)
Returns: the full name of the last file generated during the print (PDF, RTF, text, ...). the list of created duplicate files....
HModify (Function)
Modifies the specified record or the record found in memory in the data file (query or view).
Looper control linked to a data file
A Looper control can be used to display the content of a data file or query......
HReadSeekFirst (Function)
Sets the position on the first record whose value for a specific item is strictly equal to a sought value (exact-match search).
Before (Property)
The Before property replaces or inserts a procedure before the other procedures in: a Procedure variable. an event associated with a control....
Length (Function)
Returns: the length of a string, i.e., the number of characters in the string (including spaces and binary zeros). the size of a buffer, i.e., the number of bytes in the buffer....
iPageHeight (Function)
Calculates the height of printable page (in millimeters) while taking the top or bottom margins into account.
iImageHeight (Function)
Calculates the height of the image to print (in millimeters).
iPageWidth (Function)
Calculates the width (in millimeters) of the printable page while taking the left or right margins into account.
iTextWidth (Function)
Calculates the width (in millimeters) of the text to print, according to the specified font.
zipCompressionLevel (Function)
Changes the compression level used when creating an archive in ZIP format or in 7z format.
dbgCheckDifferent (Function)
Checks whether the specified expressions are different in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
dbgCheckTrue (Function)
Checks whether an expression is set to True in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
Printing the content of a pivot table (AAF)
Pivot Table controls include an automatic context menu that allows users to perform different actions on the data displayed in the control......
TableExpandAll (Function)
Expands: the entire hierarchy (all nodes) of a TreeView Table control. all breaks of a Table control....
ListSelectPlus (Function)
Selects one or more elements in a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control.
EmailReadLast (Function)
Reads the last incoming email according to the protocol used (POP3 or IMAP, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
HRplManageFile (Function)
Defines the options used for the universal replication of a file: the replication direction. the management mode of conflicts....
grDonutHolePercentage (Function)
Modifies the percentage corresponding to the radius of the hole in a Donut chart.
HTTPCreateForm (Function)
Creates an HTTP form.