ONLINE HELP
 WINDEVWEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

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
ListInfo (Function)
Retrieves the characteristics of a WLanguage list: types of elements and number of elements.
InLinuxMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run in Linux mode or not.
SeekProcedure (Function)
Seeks a procedure identified by its name. The procedure found can be run directly.
FinError (Function)
Returns the number of the last error caused by a Finxxx function (financial functions).
LanguageToName (Function)
Returns the name of a language.
ChronoReset (Function)
Stops and resets a running stopwatch.
ArrayInfo (Function)
Returns the characteristics of an array: type of elements, number of dimensions, dimensions, etc.
SocketConfigure (Function)
Configures the use of Socket functions.
SchedulerPositionDateTime
Displays a Scheduler control from a specified date or returns the date of the first day (or last day) displayed in a Scheduler control.
SysDir (Function)
Returns the path of a system directory.
InServiceMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run in a service.
dbgWriteWarningAudit (Function)
Writes a custom runtime warning into the dynamic audit.
XMLExtractDocument (Function)
Creates a new XML document from an existing XML document.
XMLRestorePosition (Function)
Restores the previously saved context of an XML document.
XMLToText (Function)
Converts a character string in XML format into a standard character string.
ErrorThrow (Function)
Throw a non-fatal error.
HErrorModification (Function)
Used to: return the value of a record item if a modification conflict occurs. check if a modification conflict occurred....
Delete (Reserved word)
The memory occupied by a dynamic object (array, class object, ...
SQLConnect (Function)
Connects the current application to a database that must be interrogated via SQL.
DashSaveConfiguration (Function)
Saves the configuration of a Dashboard control in string format.
ChronoStart (Function)
Starts a stopwatch to measure the duration of a process (in milliseconds) and resets a running stopwatch.
MultimediaVolume (Function)
Returns or modifies the sound volume of the multimedia file played in a Multimedia control.
MultimediaDuration (Function)
Returns the size of the media file currently played (in milliseconds) in the Multimedia control.
ModificationRule (Property)
The ModificationRule property is used to configure the modification rule (integrity management) to be applied to the data file described in the code.
DateToDayInAlpha (Function)
Returns the name of the day that corresponds to a specified date.