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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...
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)...
Creating an executable without library
When creating an executable, you can choose not to use a library or not to include all the elements of the project in the library...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
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...
Anchoring applied to window controls
The windows of a WINDEV application can be resized at runtime...
Creating a window skin template
CameraCapture (Function)
Captures the images received from the camera: as an image: takes a photo. as a video: records a video. Function kept for "Version-26-compatible" Camera controls....
StringToDate (Function)
Converts a date in character string format to a date in YYYYMMDD format.
SQLFetch (Function)
Goes to the next row (i.e next record) of the query result.
ExceptionChangeParameter (Function)
Configures the automatic behavior that will be implemented if an exception occurs in the current process.
Constants for test
List of constants used by the functions for managing automated tests....
CtDescribedAccess (Property)
The CtDescribedAccess property is used to set the type of access to the data file when connecting to a specific table via OLE DB.
FontCreate (Function)
Creates a font definition.
grSurfaceGridlines (Function)
Displays the gridlines for the different planes of a Surface chart.
DashDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes all widgets displayed in a Dashboard control.
Constants for sound management
List of constants used by the functions for sound management....
ContactAdd (Example)
Usage example of the ContactAdd function
MenuAddURLOption (Function)
Adds a new option after the last option of a drop-down or context menu. This menu option opens the page that corresponds to the specified URL.
Keyboard Variable (Using physical keyboards on Android)
The Keyboard variable makes it possible to retrieve the parameters of the events of a physical keyboard......
grDestinationBMP (Function)
Defines a BitMap file as destination of a chart (BMP means BitMap).
SysIconAdd (Function)
Adds a system tray icon (in the lower-right corner of the screen).
grSurfaceMesh (Function)
Enables or disables the mesh on a Surface chart.
Creating requirements
The following steps must be performed to implement the requirements......
VideoDisplay (Function)
Displays in a Camera control the video sequence currently transmitted by a "web camera" or by the camera found on the mobile device. Function kept for "Version-26-compatible" Camera controls....
HorizontalAlignment (Property)
The HorizontalAlignment property is used to get and change the horizontal alignment of a control or text.
VerticalAlignment (Property)
The VerticalAlignment property is used to get and change the vertical alignment of a control or text.
2. Types of setup
Types of setup...
IF statement
The conditional IF statement allows you to run an action according to a condition...
SensorDetectBeginShake (Function)
Notifies when the device is shaken in any direction.
SensorDetectEndShake (Function)
Notifies when the device has been shaken in any direction.
InstantMessaging (Type of variable)
The InstantMessaging type is used to define the advanced characteristics of the instant messaging of a contact (Google Talk, Skype, MSN, etc.).