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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
StartShare (Function)
Opens a popup allowing you to select the application that will be used to share a resource (text or document).
emailHeader (Type of variable)
The emailHeader type is used to retrieve or define the additional email headers.
TelemetryAddPassage (Function)
Signals the code execution for a passage sensor.
HExportJSON (Function)
Exports the records found in a data file (HFSQL or OLE DB), view or query to a JSON file.
ModbusWriteBit (Function)
Writes one or multiple bits to a specific address in a Modbus slave.
HeightInPixel (Property)
The HeightInPixel property is used to get the height in pixels of a control in a report.
HViewToFile (Function)
Saves the modifications performed in an HFSQL view (by HModify, HDelete or HCross) in the corresponding data file. This function uses the former view mechanism.
HBuildKeyValueANSI (Function)
Regardless of the platform used, the data stored in the HFSQL files is in ANSI format.
EmailCurrentFolder (Function)
Returns the name of current folder in the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol), ...).
iLine (Function)
Prints a line at specified coordinates.
MobileNetworkConnectionInfo (Function)
Returns information regarding the current connection to data on the mobile network.
Info (External language)
Displays a dialog box containing an information logo and the message passed in parameter.
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
MenuAddOption (Function)
Adds a new option after the last option of a drop-down or context menu.
MapFollowMovement (Function)
Displays the current location of the device in a Map control and updates the location as it moves.
Browser constants
Procedure description (Type of variable)
The Procedure Description type is used to get information about a procedure or a method.
DateTime (Type of variable)
The DateTime type enables you to easily handle a date and a time...
OOP concepts
A class contains the description of a data structure (members) and the processes (methods) that handle this structure....
WeekNumber (Function)
Returns the week number within the year that corresponds to the specified date (this date is a character string).
eExchangeRate (Function)
Returns the value of the exchange rate for a currency.
HCopyFile (Function)
Copies an HFSQL data file (.fic, .ndx and .mmo files if they exist): from the HFSQL server to the server (to perform a backup for example). from the HFSQL server to the client (to perform a local backup for example). from the client to the HFSQL server (to update the data files for example). from an HFSQL server to antoher HFSQL server....
FutureHeight (Property)
The FutureHeight property is used to determine how high an auto-resizing control in a report will be after being enlarged.
PageByPagePrint (Property)
The PageByPagePrint property is used to: Ask a report to be printed page by page. Each page of the report will be sent separately to the printer spooler. Find out the print mode of the report (page by page or all at once)....
Null (Reserved word)
The Null keyword can be used according to different methods in WLanguage......