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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
fLock (Function)
Entirely or partially locks an external file.
ThreadWaitSignal (Example)
Usage example of the ThreadWaitSignal function
iNestedHeaderFooter (Function)
Prints (or not) the page headers and footers of nested report.
HSaveParameter (Function)
Saves a persistent value on the HFSQL server.
AdditionCompleted (Property)
The AdditionCompleted property determines if an element was added to a queue, list or stack, or if the operation is in progress.
HPriority (Function)
Finds out and modifies the priority of the calling application.
FirstDayOfMonth (Function)
Returns the first day of the month.
HChangeLocation (Function)
Modifies the search mode of physical data files (.FIC, .NDX, ...).
Fixed array (Type of variable)
A fixed array is an "advanced" type of array...
HReconnect (Function)
Performs a reconnection to the server for all the interrupted connections. The uninterrupted connections are not modified.
Batch processes: Creating executables, WDLs, components, and more...
WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to perform multiple types of processes from a command line......
SQLExec (Example)
Usage example of the SQLExec function
EmailCloseSession (Function)
Closes an email management session depending on the selected mode (SMTP/POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange or Lotus Notes)....
1. Project audits
WEBDEV Tutorial - Optimizing a WEBDEV project Lesson 1 - Project audits - 15 min
grColor (Function)
Returns and initializes the color of different chart elements.
StringStartsWith (Function)
Checks whether a character string starts: with a specific character string. with one of the character strings in an array....
ArrayInsertLine (Function)
Inserts a row at a given position: into a two-dimensional WLanguage array. into an advanced two-dimensional array property (xlsDocument, etc.)....
HClient structure
The HClient structure is used to......
zipDeleteAll (Example)
Usage example of the zipDeleteAll function
NbCopy (Property)
The NbCopy property is used to determine and change the number of report copies to print.
grSeriesColor (Function)
Initializes the color of a series or the color of a section.
HLast (Function)
Sets the position on the last record of a data file according to a browse item.
HDescribeConnection (Example)
Usage example of the HDescribeConnection function
BitPerPixel (Property)
The BitPerPixel property is used to get and change the number of bits per pixel in an image.
gFontStrikeout (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether the text that follows the call to this function is crossed out or not.