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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
SQLLock (Function)
Used to lock: The entire data table, in read and write mode. Its data cannot be accessed by other computers. The records selected by the query. This data cannot be accessed by the other computers. This method can be used to update records for example....
grTitleFont (Function)
Modifies the font used for the chart title.
grLegendFont (Function)
Modifies the font used for the chart legend.
grLabel (Function)
Indicates various parameters of additional legend in a chart.
grInterval (Function)
Indicates the interval between values on the vertical and horizontal axis of a chart.
EmailGetTimeOut (Function)
Reads the value of the "timeout" for connecting to the SMTP, POP3 and IMAP messaging servers.
grColumnSpacing (Function)
Indicates the spacing between each data category in a column chart or in a Minimum/Maximum stock chart....
HChangeName (Function)
Modifies the physical name of a data file.
fExtractPath (Example)
Usage example of the fExtractPath function
EmailDeleteMessage (Function)
Deletes the current email using the current protocol (POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
KeyExpression (Example)
Usage example of the KeyExpression property
EmailReadMessage (Function)
Reads an incoming according to the protocol used (POP3 or IMAP, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
BurnerSave (Function)
Burns the files found in the compilation onto the CD or DVD.
HNext (Function)
Sets the position on the next data file record according to a browse item.
grLabelFont (Function)
Modifies the font used for the category labels of a chart.
SQLModify (Example)
Usage example of the SQLModify function
HTTPGetResult (Example)
Usage example of the HTTPGetResult function
Note (Property)
The Note property is used to get and change a text associated with an element.
fGlobalDirUser (Function)
Returns a directory path for the global data of current application (data shared between several applications), for the current user.
HCross (Function)
Crosses a record in a data file.
EmailRemoveFolder (Function)
Deletes a folder from the Outlook messaging software or from an IMAP server.
fListDirectory (Function)
Lists the subdirectories of a given directory and returns the full paths of listed subdirectories.
ArrayDeleteLine (Function)
Deletes a row at a given position: from a two-dimensional array. from the advanced array property (array of gglCalendar events, etc.) The array size is automatically reduced....
HExportXML (Function)
Exports the records found in a data file (HFSQL or OLE DB), view or query to an XML file.
HDescribeFullTextIndex (Example)
Usage example of the HDescribeFullTextIndex function