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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
StringCompare (Function)
Compares two strings character by character: according to the sequence of ASCII characters. according to the alphabetical order....
ArrayInsert (Function)
Inserts an element at a given position: into a one-dimensional array. into an associative array. into an advanced array property (array of gglCalendar events, etc.). into a WLanguage list....
Compilation options (chm format)
Polar Area charts
Polar Area charts are similar to Pie charts. However, each segment has the same angle......
Characteristics of Table controls in a page
Table controls allow you to display and/or enter data......
LengthToString (Function)
Converts a size in bytes to a string with human-readable units such as kilobytes, megabytes or terabytes.
ModbusWriteFloat (Function)
Writes one or more single-precision floats to a Modbus slave, starting at a specific address.
ModbusWriteRegister (Function)
Writes one or more registers (16-bit values) to a Modbus slave, starting at a specific address.
NbRecRead (Property)
NbRecRead is used to find out the number of records read: selected both by the source of the report AND by the filter code (if it exists).
MemNext (Function)
Positions on the next element of a memory zone and returns the value of this element.
SQLSeek (Function)
Positions on the specified result row of the query.
SQLClose (Function)
Declares the end of the query execution and frees the memory resources allocated during the execution of the query.
Properties associated with report controlss
List of properties associated with the report controls...
EmailAddFolder (Function)
Adds a folder into the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol), ...).
iBorder (Function)
Prints a border at specified coordinates.
XMLModify (Function)
Modifies the content of the current element found in the XML document.
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HChangeConnection (Example)
Usage example of the HChangeConnection function
LeftMargin (Property)
The LeftMargin property is used to: Find out the left margin of a report. Modify the left margin of a report....
TopMargin (Property)
The TopMargin property is used to: Find out the top margin of a report. Modify the top margin of a report....
SQLColumn (Function)
Returns the characteristics of all the columns (or items): for a given table. for a given query....
SQLCol (Function)
Retrieves the content of the specified column from the query result, for the current line.
Sorts in a report
The sort is used to organize the information displayed in the report......
Mobile-friendly website: available methods
WEBDEV includes several page creation methods that allow you to create mobile-friendly websites......
The OLE control
The OLE control is used to handle an OLE object......