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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
HDBDescribeFile (Function)
Describes a file in dBase3 format (most common format) through programming.
WEBDEV administrator: Overview
The WEBDEV administrator is a module used to manage the dynamic WEBDEV sites......
Dedicated Web server
When installing WEBDEV development version, if no Web server is available on the current computer, WEBDEV automatically installs one (IIS Express version 10). This server is automatically configured to work with WEBDEV....
Structure of data files of user groupware
FontCondensed (Property)
The FontCondensed property is used to: Determine if characters in a text are condensed. Condense (or not) the characters in a text....
FontExtended (Property)
The FontExtended property is used to: Find out whether the spacing between characters in a text is increased. Increase the spacing between characters in a text....
Size (Property)
The Size property is used to determine and change the size of an element.
DDEStart (Function)
Starts the execution of a program (an executable for example) from the current application.
Migrating a WEBDEV site to PHP
To migrate a WEBDEV site to PHP......
WDSQL: Database structure
WDSQL is used to find out the structure of the accessed database......
BTListDevice (Function)
Returns the list of accessible Bluetooth devices.
hdfsConnection (Type of variable)
The hdfsConnection type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a connection to the Hadoop file system (HDFS).
Variable Description (Type of variable)
The Variable Description type is used to get information about a variable or a member.
Managing HBase databases
HBase is a non-relational (NoSQL) distributed database, based on columns and using non-structured storage for large tables......
Installing an application server
There are several steps to install the WEBDEV Application Server on a Linux server......
How to develop a PHP site?
What is a PHP site?......
Unalterable (Property)
The Unalterable property is used to configure the unalterability of a data file: the data file cannot be modified; only additions can be made.
The Flash control
The Flash control is used to display a Flash® animation in a WEBDEV page......
Creating a branch
A branch is used to create a copy of the current project in order to perform modifications, additions, etc....
User Control Center: Available network applications
The User Control Center is used to list the applications for which a network setup was created......
EnumSubElement (Function)
Used to enumerate the sub-elements of a project element.
iPrintSignature (Function)
Prints an image of the signature in a rectangular area.
CursorOptions (Property)
The CursorOptions property is used to manage the type of cursor used for a connection (Native Connectors, OLE DB, etc.).
XLS file handling functions
List of functions for managing XLS files...
Declaring a procedure/a function
The different syntaxes for declaring a procedure...