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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
SeekByProcedure (Function)
Seeks an element in a one-dimensional array by using a comparison procedure.
SwapLine (Function)
Used to swap two rows in a two-dimensional array or in an advanced array property.
BufferToReal (Function)
Extracts a real from a binary buffer at a given position.
HRefreshView (Function)
Asks to recalculate the content of a materialized view.
HListScheduling (Function)
Lists the scheduled tasks defined on an HFSQL server: stored procedure, backup, optimization, refresh of materialized view....
ParallelTaskWait (Function)
Waits for the execution of a parallel task.
ModbusConnectTCP (Function)
Connects a client to a Modbus server via transmission control protocol (TCP).
MemSort (Function)
Sorts the elements found in a memory zone.
Properties associated with a report
List of properties associated with a report...
Email management functions
List of functions for managing emails...
WDSQL, SQL querier: Overview
WDSQL is used to......
dPolyline (Function)
Draws a line composed of multiple segments.
rssEnclosure (Type of variable)
The rssEnclosure type is used to describe and handle the attachment of an entry of RSS stream...
Cookie (Type of variable)
The Cookie type is used to handle the cookies transmitted in the HTTP requests.
TableInsertChild (Function)
Inserts a row into a TreeView Table control, in a given hierarchy level.
HModifyScheduledOptimization (Function)
Modifies a scheduled optimization task on the HFSQL server defined by the connection.
grGetData (Function)
Retrieves a data from a chart.
ContactList (Function)
Lists the device contacts corresponding to the specified criteria.
grAxisVisible (Function)
Configures how the axes are displayed in Line or Column charts.
ParallelTaskCancel (Function)
Immediately ends the execution of the current task: the task is flagged as ptsCanceled.
ParallelTaskWaitAll (Function)
Waits for the end of execution of all parallel tasks found in an array.
HRecordToJSON (Function)
Retrieves the structure and value of the current record and exports them into a string in JASON format.
ModbusReadFloat (Function)
Reads one or more single-precision floats from a Modbus slave, starting at a specific address.
ExceptionEnable (Function)
Re-enables the current exception process if the exception was corrected.
MemOut (Function)
Used to find out whether the browse performed on a memory area is outside this memory area.