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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
LocalStorageValueName (Function)
Returns the name of a value for the local storage.
Warning 18: Loop without potential end
WHILE statement
In a WHILE statement, the expression is evaluated at each beginning of the block of statements...
diffCreate (Function)
Compares two buffers and creates a buffer containing the differences between these two buffers.
InsertColumn (Function)
Inserts a column at a given position into an advanced two-dimensional array property (xlsDocument, ...).
ByAddress (Property)
The ByAddress property is used to determine if a procedure parameter was passed by address.
CharactUnicode (Function)
Returns the character corresponding to the specified Unicode code.
XMLSave (Function)
Saves an XML document in a file.
dbgSaveMemoryDump (Function)
Saves a dump of memory used by the application.
GetGUID (Function)
Calculates a globally unique identifier (named "GUID"), whose size is: equal to 16 bytes, which means 32 hexadecimal characters. equal to 32 bytes, which means 64 hexadecimal characters....
GetColor (Function)
Allows you to get a set of harmonious colors without having to use a table of colors.
FilterWithBounds (Property)
The FilterWithBounds property is used to determine if bounds have been specified for the filter implemented by HFilter on an HFSQL data file, view or query.
Min (Function)
Returns the lowest value.
MatDeterminant (Function)
Calculates the determinant of a square matrix (the number of rows is equal to the number of columns).
MatWrite (Function)
Writes an element into a matrix.
MatRead (Function)
Reads the value of a matrix element.
HFree (Function)
Transforms the crossed records (HCross) into deleted records.
HRecordDate (Function)
Returns the date and time of the last write operation performed on a record in an HFSQL file (Classic or Client/Server)....
XMLParent (Function)
Positions on the parent element of current element (tag or attribute).
Print functions
List of print functions...
EmailReadNext (Example)
Usage example of the EmailReadNext function
HListProvider (Function)
Returns the list of OLE DB providers and/or Native Connectors installed on the current computer....
iPrintBarCode (Function)
Prints a bar code (inside a rectangle).
ChronoResume (Function)
Restarts a stopwatch that was stopped by ChronoEnd or ChronoPause.
InAJAXMode (Function)
Specifies whether the code is run from: a process in AJAX mode. a procedure called by AJAXExecute or AJAXExecuteAsynchronous....