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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
NetSendMessage (Example)
Usage example of the NetSendMessage function
fImageSelect (Example)
Usage example of the fImageSelect function
Phone (Type of variable)
The Phone type is used to handle a phone number as well as its type (home, work, ...).
AppDetectUPDAvailable (Function)
Disables or customizes the automatic check for available updates.
WDStatistics: Importing log files
To view the statistics about the site traffic with WDStatistics, the log files must be imported onto the current computer......
SEO of a WEBDEV site
In order for your site to get visitors, the Web users must be able to find it......
DDE errors
When a DDE function fails (returns False for example), ErrorInfo allows you to find out the number of the corresponding error]......
ServiceList (Function)
Returns the list of services found on the current computer or on the specified remote computer.
dImageToArray (Function)
Copies the RGB pixels of the image into a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array. The array of colors is cleared then it is filled with the integers representing the colors (24 bits) of the image.
SysRecentDocAdd (Function)
Adds a file into the list of recently opened documents.
ContactSource (Type of variable)
The ContactSource type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a source (or account) for the contacts (example: Google, Exchange, Facebook).
SIPAddress (Type of variable)
The SIPAddress type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a SIP address.
BitwiseXOR (Function)
Returns the result of the bitwise exclusive OR operation performed between two values.
HDeleteLink (Function)
Deletes an integrity rule between two data files on the server.
EmailSend (Function)
Sends an email via the SMTP protocol while controlling the "buffer" of the email.
TableItemStatus (Function)
Returns the status of a node in a Treeview Table control: collapsed, expanded or not found.
Designation of current element (Reserved word)
The keywords used to identify the current element are:
ConsoleError (Function)
Writes a character string in the standard error output stream "stderr".
<zipArchive variable>.AddDirectory (Function)
Adds all the files found in a directory and in its subdirectories into an archive and compresses them.
HForward (Function)
Moves several records forward from the current position in the data file, according to a specified item.
ServiceWaitStatus (Function)
Waits for a service to be in a specific status.
ServiceStatus (Function)
Returns the current status of a service.
Creating and using a REST Webservice
A REST WebService is a program hosted on a server containing functions accessible via HTTP requests......
FTPSend (Example)
Usage example of the FTPSend function
ConsoleWrite (Function)
Writes a character string in the standard output stream "stdout" (also called "console").