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Version: 2025

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
Constants for managing multilingual applications
List of constants used by the functions for managing multilingual applications...
BackgroundColor (Property)
The BackgroundColor property is used to get and change the background color of an element.
iCurrentFile (Function)
Returns the name of the file currently generated.
HTMLExecuteBrowserProcedure (Function)
Executes a WLanguage browser procedure in an HTML Display control that displays a page created with WEBDEV.
Events associated with Breadcrumb controls
List of events associated with Breadcrumb controls...
Different types of pages
WEBDEV enables you to create static sites and/or dynamic sites......
Positioning table
Positioning the elements in a page is simplified by the use of a positioning table (HTML table)......
fCopyFile (Example)
Usage example of the fCopyFile function
TreeView Table control functions
List of functions for managing TreeView Table controls...
EncryptStandard (Function)
Encrypts a character string or a binary buffer by using a symmetrical encryption algorithm (AES, DES, etc.)
Error handling WLanguage procedure called by zipExtractDirectory
WLanguage procedure ("Callback") called if an error is encountered when extracting files with zipExtractDirectory.
PageLayout (Property)
The PageLayout property sets the layout characteristics of a document.
Thickness (Property)
The Thickness property is used to get and change the thickness of an element.
HOut (Example)
Usage example of the HOut function
WDSQL: Creating an SQL query
Once the connection to the database is established, WDSQL allows you to create different types of SQL queries......
GDPR (Property)
The GDPR property is used to: find out if the GDPR applies to an item from a data file. define whether the GDPR should apply to an item (in the item description in the code only)....
Multiple assignments of arrays, structures and classes
The multiple assignment of arrays consists in assigning a set of simple values (boolean, integer, string, real, numeric or currency) to the cells of an array. This multiple assignment is also available for the structures and the classes....
SensorDetectChangeOrientation (Function)
Allows you to be notified when the orientation of the device changes on any one of its 3 axes.
fbSession (Type of variable)
The fbSession type is used to describe a connection to the Facebook service and to manage the authentication to this service.
SensorDetectChangeAcceleration (Function)
Notifies when acceleration forces are applied to the device along any of the three axes.
BackgroundTaskAdd (Function)
Adds a new background task.
Project Management Hub: Managing contributors
Contributors are the people who take part in one or more projects......
Events associated with HTML controls
WEBDEV includes different events associated with the HTML control......
HTMLToRTF (Function)
Converts an HTML string or an HTML buffer to an RTF string.
Using objects
To access a class, the object must be declared as being part of the class to handle, this is called object instantiation......