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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
HTransactionIsolation (Function)
Configures the isolation mode of transactions for a connection to an HFSQL server.
ArcTan2 (Function)
Returns the arc tangent 2 of the values passed in parameter.
Palette (Type of variable)
The Palette type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a color palette.
grPointType (Function)
Modifies the shape of point for a specific category or value found in a Line, Area, Scatter and Radar chart.
WLanguage procedure called by AppDetectUPDAvailable
Procedure ("Callback") called by AppDetectUPDAvailable when an update for the active application is detected.
ModbusReadBit (Function)
Reads one or more bits from a Modbus slave, starting at a specific address.
ModbusReadRegister (Function)
Reads one or more registers from a Modbus slave, starting at a specific address.
Italic (Property)
The Italic property is used to: Find out whether a Font variable is in italic type. Modify the italic attribute of a Font variable....
MsgSortSel (Property)
The MsgSortSel property is used to: Find out the wait message displayed when sorting and selecting the report records. Modify the wait message displayed when sorting and selecting the report records....
MemExist (Function)
Checks the existence of a memory zone.
MemCurrent (Function)
Returns the index of the current element.
ClipboardFormat (Function)
Identifies the format of information found in the clipboard.
HCancelSeek (Function)
Cancels the current search criterion.
EmailMessageLength (Function)
Calculates the size of specified message (without loading the message).
Phonetic (Function)
Returns the phonetic transcription of the string passed as parameter.
HFilter (Function)
Defines and enables a filter on a data file, view or query.
Transactions: Secure processes on HFSQL data files
This chapter presents the following topics......
Sort order of records found in a select query
To make the result of a query easier to read, the records can be sorted according to one or more items......
NumToString (Function)
Converts a numeric value (integer, real or currency) to a string according to a specified format.
fTrackFile (Function)
Triggers the tracking of a file.
fTrackDirectory (Function)
Detects the modifications performed on the content of a directory.
ExplorerRetrieve (Example)
Usage example of the ExplorerRetrieve function
ExplorerAccept (Example)
Usage example of the ExplorerAccept function
rssEntry (Type of variable)
The rssEntry type is used to handle a RSS stream entry...
SensorGetOrientation (Function)
Retrieves the current orientation of the device on one of its 3 axes.