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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
fDirAttribute (Function)
Returns or modifies the attributes of a directory.
Managing the application language through programming
A multilingual application is an application that can be distributed in several languages......
SysXRes (Function)
Returns the horizontal screen resolution.
EmailReadLastHeader (Function)
Reads the header of last incoming email according to the protocol used (POP3 or IMAP, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
EmailReadFirstHeader (Function)
Reads the header of the first incoming email according to the protocol used (POP3 or IMAP, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
EmailReadPreviousHeader (Function)
Reads the header of the email found before the current email according to the protocol used (POP3 or IMAP, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
grAddData (Function)
Adds a data into a chart.
AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image or Static control.
ListModify (Function)
Modifies an element in a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control populated programmatically.
Yes,No (External language)
Displays a dialog box that includes a logo, a message and the "Yes" and "No&quot buttons.
<Looper>.Add (Function)
Adds a row at the end of a Looper control.
Handling a Progress Bar control through programming
A Progress Bar control can be handled through programming......
SFModify (Function)
Modifies the records of a file defined in Salesforce.
The Contact structure
The Contact structure is a preset structure of WLanguage (no declaration is required)......
btleDescriptor (Type of variable)
The btleDescriptor type is used to handle the descriptor of a Bluetooth Low Energy characteristic
LanguageDescribed (Property)
The LanguageDescribed property is used to set the language used to compare and sort Unicode items (Unicode Text item or Unicode Text Memo item).
SysYRes (Function)
Returns the vertical screen resolution.
ServiceUninstall (Function)
Uninstalls a service.
ZOrder (Property)
The ZOrder property gets and sets the Z-order of an element.
HListItem (Function)
Returns the list of items: found in a data file ( a query or a view) known to the HFSQL engine. The data files defined by HDeclare, HDeclareExternal and HDescribeFile are taken into account. found in a Record variable....
Stack (Type of variable)
A Stack variable is a structured type that is used to group a set of elements of the same type.
List (Type of variable)
A List variable is a structured type that is used to group a set of elements of the same type.
HOpenAnalysis (Function)
Opens an analysis in HFSQL Classic format.
HRestorePosition (Function)
Restores the context of a previously saved file (HSavePosition): current record, filter, pointers.
HBuildKeyValue (Function)
Builds the value of a composite key to implement a filter (HFilter) or to perform a search (HReadSeekFirst, HReadSeekLast, etc.).