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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
Constant
The constants are language elements whose value is fixed once and for all...
MultimediaOpen (Function)
Opens a media file in a Multimedia control.
dbgLogOption (Function)
Retrieves or modifies the options of the runtime log.
XMLWrite (Function)
Creates or modifies the value of an XML element or the value of the attribute for an XML element.
Default (Property)
The Default property is used to determine if a parameter has been passed to a procedure with a custom or default value.
After (Property)
The After property replaces or inserts a procedure after the other procedures in: a Procedure variable. an event associated with a control....
HexaToBuffer (Function)
Converts a string with hexadecimal bytes to a binary buffer.
InitRandom (Function)
Initializes the generator of random numbers.
Random (Function)
Returns a random number.
CompleteDir (Function)
Adds a backslash to the end of a string, if necessary.
MemPrevious (Function)
Positions on the element found before the current element of a memory zone and returns the value of this element.
FinRedemption (Function)
Creates an amortization matrix for a fixed-rate loan over a defined period of time.
IntegerToDayInAlpha (Function)
Returns the name of the day that corresponds to a specified date (this date is an integer).
StringToDuration (Function)
Converts a duration in character string format to a duration that can be used by a Duration variable.
MatExist (Function)
Checks the whether the matrix exists in memory.
TwainListSource (Function)
Returns the list of drivers for the Twain devices connected to the current computer.
Archiving functions (management of ZIP, WDZ, CAB, RAR, 7z, TAR and TGZ (TAR.GZ))
List of archiving functions (management of ZIP, WDZ, CAB, RAR, 7z, TAR and TGZ (TAR.GZ))...
ArrayCount (Function)
Returns: the number of elements in a one-dimensional array. the number of rows in a two-dimensional array. the number of elements in the first dimension of a three-dimensional or N-dimensional array....
XMLOut (Function)
Used to find out whether the element (tag or attribute) on which we want to be positioned is outside the XML document.
XMLInsertDocument (Function)
Inserts the current XML tag found in an XML document into another XML document.
XMLRename (Function)
Renames the current element (tag or attribute) in an XML document.
HStatNbRecRange (Function)
Returns an estimate regarding the number of entries for a given key item in a given interval of values.
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit a statement block and the current process (or procedure).
SysThumbnailAddButton (Function)
Adds a button into the thumbnail of the application in the taskbar.
Item Description (Type of variable)
An Item Description variable is used to describe one or more items in a data file programmatically.