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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
Different types of data (Type of variable)
A variable is defined by name and type......
GPSInitParameter (Function)
Initializes the parameters of geolocation WLanguage functions and finds a location provider.
grStartAngle (Function)
Sets the starting angle of the first section in the following types of chart: Pie, Semi-circular or Donut. Sunburst. Radial Bar chart....
Right (Function)
Extracts the last characters from a string or string buffer.
EmailSaveAttachment (Function)
Copies the attachment of current email onto the user computer (locally).
xlsOpen (Example)
Usage example of the xlsOpen function
DotNetDelegate (Example)
Usage example of the DotNetDelegate function
fSplit (Function)
Splits a file into several files.
HModifyDatabaseProperty (Function)
Modifies the properties of a database located on an HFSQL server.
ArrayShuffle (Function)
Shuffles the elements of a WLanguage array.
AndroidActivityResultProcedure (Function)
Allows you to specify the procedure to be called to get the result returned by a third-party Activity.
Structure of log files (HFSQL Classic)
The following files are automatically created when logging an HFSQL Classic data file......
Lock constants
List of constants used by the functions for locking the applications....
ArraySort (Example)
Usage example of the ArraySort function
LDAPListChildren (Example)
Use example for the LDAPListChildren function
iParameter (Example)
Usage example of the iParameter function
Main characteristics of a List Box control
The main characteristics of a List Box control are as follows......
Creating and generating an external component
A component must be created from a project containing all the elements required for the component......
EmailSendMessage (Function)
Sends an email using a given protocol (SMTP, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, Outlook).
SQLGetTextMemo (Function)
Retrieves the content of a Text Memo column found in the query result, for the current line.
grAxisTitleFont (Function)
Modifies the font used for the titles of the chart axes.
grSeriesLabel (Function)
Initializes the label of a data series in a chart.
grType (Function)
Identifies or modifies the type of chart.
zipDeleteFile (Function)
Deletes a file from an archive.
BurnerErase (Function)
Erases the files found on a rewritable CD or DVD.