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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
FirstDayOfWeek (Function)
Returns the date of first day of the week (i.e., Monday).
EmailCopy (Function)
Copies an email found in a directory to another directory of an IMAP server.
StringToTime (Function)
Converts a time in character string format to a time in HHMMSSCC format that can be used by a Time variable].
grHMCaptionX (Function)
Modifies the caption of a category on the X-axis of a Heatmap chart.
grHMCaptionY (Function)
Modifies the caption of a category on the Y-axis of a Heatmap chart.
Underline (Property)
The Underline property is used to: Find out whether a Font variable is underlined. Underline (or not) a Font variable....
InternalReportName (Property)
The InternalReportName property is used to: Find out the name of the report printed in an "Internal Report" control. Change the report printed in an "Internal Report" control....
ViewName (Property)
The ViewName property is used to: find out the name of the HFSQL view, data source of a report modify the name of the HFSQL view, data source of a report....
MemZoneName (Property)
The MemZoneName property is used to: find out the name of the memory area used as data source for a report. modify the name of the memory area used as data source for a report....
MemCount (Function)
Returns the number of elements found in a memory zone.
TableGiveParent (Function)
Returns the "parent" of an element in a TreeView Table control.
UTF8ToString (Function)
Converts a UTF-8 string to ANSI or UNICODE.
Runtime error management functions
List of functions for managing runtime errors...
grSeriesType (Function)
Defines the type of series used in a composite chart (chart containing several types of charts).
Date and Time management functions
List of functions for managing dates and times...
The "Column" charts
The data is interpreted as "columns" whose height is proportional to the value of data......
The Dockable Panel control
The Dockable Panel control allows you to easily organize the software interface into zones that the end user can freely move......
InsertLine (Function)
Inserts a row at a given position: into a two-dimensional WLanguage array. into an advanced two-dimensional array property (xlsDocument, etc.)....
Date (Property)
The Date property is used to: Retrieve the date from a DateTime variable. Modify the date in a DateTime variable. Retrieve the date from a Date item (in "Date and Time" format) . Modify the date in a Date item (in "Date and Time" format)...
Time (Property)
The Time property enables you to: Retrieve the time from a DateTime variable. Modify the time in a DateTime variable. Retrieve the time from in a Date item (in "Date and Time" format) Modify the time in a Date item ("Date and Time" format)....
Position (Function)
Finds the position of a specified string within another string.
ChronoEnd (Function)
Stops a stopwatch and returns the time elapsed (in milliseconds) since the start of timing (call to ChronoStart).
ArrayDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all elements: from a one-dimensional or two-dimensional WLanguage array. from an associative array. from an advanced array property (array of gglCalendar events, etc.). from a WLanguage queue. from a WLanguage stack. from a WLanguage list....
ThreadSendSignal (Function)
The current thread sends a signal to the specified thread in order to unlock it.
ErrorChangeParameter (Function)
Configures the automatic behavior that will be implemented if an error occurs in the current process.