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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
dbgOnError (Function)
Defines the WLanguage procedure that will be called whenever an error is detected by a dbgCheckXXX function.
zipFilter (Function)
Returns the list of archive formats supported by the current platform, in the format expected by the filter of fSelect.
TextToHTML (Function)
Converts text to HTML (carriage returns are replaced by <BR>, accented characters are replaced by their equivalent in HTML, etc.).
HRecreateSubscriberReplica (Function)
Re-creates the description file of a subscriber replica (universal replication only) according to the information of the master replica (.RPM and.SYN files).
fWrite (Example)
Usage example of the fWrite function
Constants for the geo-localization functions
Constants used by the geo-localization functions...
URLExtractPath (Function)
Returns the different elements of a URL: protocol, user, password, domain, port, resource path, resource name, resource extension, request and fragment.
PropertyExist (Function)
Used to find out whether a property exists on a control or on a class instance.
RTFAdd (Function)
Adds a character string (in RTF or not) at the end of RTF edit control, RTF control in a report or character string containing a text in RTF.
HUpdateQuery (Function)
Creates or updates a query on an HFSQL server.
Break in a Looper control
A break in a Looper control is used to group the data corresponding to one or more arguments......
AAFs available for numeric edit controls
The numeric edit controls propose several AAFs (Automatic Application Features): a context menu proposing the "Calculator" option. the ability to modify the control value with the mouse wheel....
PositionOccurrence (Function)
Finds the Xth position of a string within another string.
TimeSys (Function)
Returns or modifies the system time (current time defined for the current computer).
BankHolidayAdd (Function)
Indicates that a day (or a list of days) is a public holiday.
SQLConnectWS (Function)
Connects the current application to a database that will be queried by SQL through a Webservice proxy (SOAP).
dbgCheckFalse (Function)
Checks whether an expression is false in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
HModifyGroup (Function)
Modifies the group information according to the elements found in the corresponding variables for group management.
SelectionOnly (Property)
The SelectionOnly property is used to: Find out which elements of the Table or TreeView Table control will be printed: print all the records or the selected records only. Change the print mode of rows in the Table or TreeView Table control: print all records or the selected records only....
HTTPCookieGet (Function)
Retrieves the cookies read by a call: to HTTPRequest for an HTTP domain. to HTTPSend for an HTTP domain....
HLoadParameter (Function)
Reads a parameter that was saved from a stored procedure by HSaveParameter.
HDeleteTask (Function)
Deletes a scheduled task from an HFSQL Client/Server server....
ArrayReverse (Function)
Reverses the content of a one-dimensional array.
Reverse (Function)
Returns the character that corresponds to the difference between the ASCII code of a specific character in a string and 255.
HInfoLock (Function)
Returns information about the lock set on a data file, on one or all the records in a data file.