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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
Sharing your source code with the SCM
WEBDEV Tutorial - A Source Code Manager for WEBDEV Sharing your source code with the SCM - 30 min...
diffApply (Function)
Applies a difference buffer to a specific buffer.
ServiceModify (Function)
Modifies the configuration of a service according to the information given in the members of the Service variable.
"Is Class" operator
The "is <Class>" operator is used to find out whether the object used in an object of the class (or an object of one of its derived classes)...
MobileNetworkStatus (Function)
Returns the current status of the connection to data on the mobile network or asks to be notified when the status of the connection to data changes.
Managing Hive databases
Hive is a software layer of Hadoop used to run queries......
ParallelTaskRequestCancellation (Function)
Requests the cancellation of a parallel task.
BackgroundImagePrinted (Property)
The BackgroundImagePrinted is used to: Determine if the background image of a report (form or other) should be printed. Print (or not) the background image of a report....
PageEndStick (Property)
The PageEndStick property is used to: Determine the page footer should be right below the last block. Change the page footer block options....
NbPrintedRec (Property)
The NbPrintedRec property is used to determine the number of records already printed.
NbLabelCopy (Property)
The NbLabelCopy property is used to: Get the number of copies of identical labels. Change the number of copies of identical labels....
StringCount (Function)
Calculates: the number of occurrences of a specific character string (by respecting the search criteria) in another character string. the number of occurrences of a set of strings in an array....
MemLast (Function)
Sets the position on the last element of memory area and returns the value of this element.
TimeToString (Function)
Converts a time to a string in the specified format.
HCancelAlias (Function)
Cancels an alias that was declared beforehand by HAlias.
EmailChangeFolder (Function)
Modifies the current folder in the messaging software (Outlook, messaging software using the IMAP protocol, ...).
iHLine (Function)
Prints a horizontal line at specified coordinates.
iVLine (Function)
Prints a vertical line at specified coordinates.
Android: Conditions for using the Map control (before version 180056)
The Map control is using the Google Maps API library. The Map control displays data coming from the Google Maps service....
Internal procedure
Several features require a procedure called once or several times via a WLanguage function ("Callback")....
Logical operators
The logical operators are as follows......
eCurrencyName (Function)
Returns the caption of a currency.
<Notification>.Remove (Function)
Removes a previously sent interactive notification.
<Notification>.Send (Function)
Sends an interactive notification to the system in order to be displayed.
OBEXSendFile (Function)
Sends a file to a device that supports the OBEX protocol.