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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
HLockFile (Function)
Locks a data file and restricts the access to this data file for all other sites or applications.
StringBuild (Function)
Builds a character string from an initial string and parameters.
ArcTan (Function)
Returns the arc tangent of a numeric value (integer or real).
DeleteColumn (Function)
Deletes a column at a given position from the advanced array property (array of gglCalendar events, etc.).
NbReceived (Property)
Returns the number of parameters actually received by a procedure.
iInitSubReport (Function)
Initializes the parameters of a subreport of a composite report.
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
fAddBuffer (Function)
Adds the content of a buffer at the end of a file.
grHMAddData (Function)
Adds a data into a Heatmap chart.
FBStopSession (Function)
Stops the Facebook session that was started by FBStartSession.
DeepLinkProcedure (Function)
Defines the WLanguage procedure executed when the user clicks on a deep link.
HDeleteScheduledBackup (Function)
Deletes a scheduled backup from an HFSQL Client/Server server....
HModifyScheduledBackup (Function)
Modifies a backup scheduling.
dTransferToImage (Function)
Creates an image from a buffer of pixels encoded in a specific format. This function is an advanced function. This function is mainly used to handle the images returned by external APIs via Image variables....
NumToFinancialWritingChinese (Function)
Converts a numeric value (integer, real or currency) to a string in the Chinese financial writing format.
grHMDeleteColor (Function)
Deletes the colors specified by grHMColor from a Heatmap chart.
grSeriesPointType (Function)
Modifies the type of point for a series found in a Line, Area, Scatter and Radar chart.
ModbusSendRawFrame (Function)
Sends a raw frame to a Modbus slave. This enables communication with devices that do not strictly comply with the Modbus standard.
Properties associated with the report blocks
List of properties associated with the report blocks...
HDeleteScheduledOptimization (Function)
Deletes a scheduled optimization task from HFSQL Client/Server data files....
grWaterfallColor (Function)
Indicates the color for a type of category in a Waterfall chart.
Truncate (Function)
Truncates the right part of a string or buffer.
Binary (Property)
The Binary property is used to determine if an item is binary.
SQLListSource (Function)
Lists the data sources declared on a local site.
FTPCommand (Function)
Sends a specific FTP command to a server.