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Version: 2025

WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
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)...
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...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
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...
Creating a window skin template
fDir (Function)
Finds a file or directory.
BitwiseAND (Function)
Returns the result of the bitwise AND between two values.
fCompare (Function)
Compares the content of two files bit by bit.
InFactoryMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run by an action plan of the software factory.
SOAPGetHeader (Function)
Retrieves a header in the SOAP message received further to a call to a Webservice.
MaxSourceCardinality (Property)
The MaxSourceCardinality property gets and changes the maximum cardinality of the source item in the link.
MinSourceCardinality (Property)
The MinSourceCardinality property is used to get and modify the minimum cardinality of the source item in the link.
SourceKey (Property)
The SourceKey property sets the characteristics of a link.
Numerical (Property)
Numerical is used to find out whether an item is a numeric item.
fSizeUncompressed (Function)
Returns the size of a file before compression. When a file is decompressed by fUncompress, we recommend that you to compare the non-compressed size of file with the available disk space.
HCloseAnalysis (Function)
Closes the current analysis.
HInfoUser (Function)
Updates the variables for user management with the information regarding the specified user.
NationToLanguage (Function)
Returns the language corresponding to a nation.
LanguageToNation (Function)
Returns the nation corresponding to a language.
TextToXML (Function)
Converts an ANSI string to an XML string.
XMLChildExist (Function)
Specifies whether the current tag has children corresponding to the sought type (tag, attribute, ...).
InWebserviceMode (Function)
Used to find out whether the execution is in progress in the AWWS engine.
dCopyImage (Example)
Usage example of the dCopyImage function
EmailReadFirst (Example)
Usage example of the EmailReadFirst function
emailSMTPSession (Type of variable)
The emailSMTPSession type is used to access a messaging server by using the SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) in order to send emails.
Installing a Webservice (old format)
TableRecNum (Function)
Returns the number of the current record in a Table control based on a data file.
SQL view
An SQL view is a virtual data source defined by an SQL query......
Multimedia constants
List of constants used by the multimedia functions....
MyFile (Reserved word)
In a trigger, MyFile is used to identify the file that activates the trigger...