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 WINDEVWEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

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
Thread management constants
List of constants used by the functions for managing threads, critical sections, semaphores, mutexes, ......
Thread (Type of variable)
The Thread type allows you to define all the characteristics of a thread.
WDTRAD options
GuidedTourStep (Type of Variable)
The GuidedTourStep type allows you to define all the advanced characteristics of a step of a guided tour.
GuidedTour (Type of Variable)
The GuidedTour type allows you to define all the advanced characteristics of a guided tour and its stages.
Handling the report blocks through programming
Each report block is associated with different events......
Automatic features of Pivot Table controls
The Pivot Table control offers several Automatic Application Features (AAF) allowing the user to take advantage of all its capabilities......
How to choose the data source of a control?
This help page presents the different data sources available for a control....
PageUse (Function)
Displays a WEBDEV page in the user's browser and closes all page contexts currently open on the server....
LDAPSession structure
The LDAPSession structure is a preset structure of WLanguage (no declaration is required)......
StreamChangeDriver (Function)
Specifies the camera that will be used as source for a stream and/or a Conference control....
Unicode in character strings
UNICODE is an encoding system that assigns a unique number to each character....
Events associated with framesets
List of events associated with framesets...
grDestinationWMF (Function)
Defines a meta file as chart destination.
MCI constants
List of constants used by the MCI functions....
8. 10 tips for better interfaces...
Importing classes and sets of procedures (text file)
From version 23, you have the ability to import existing classes or sets of procedures in text format......
Style of a control
As soon as it is created, a control is associated with a style......
Constants for managing Toolbar controls
List of constants used by the Toolbar control management functions...
Restoring an HFSQL Client/Server database
A backup of a HFSQL Client/Server database can be restored at any time......
AAF: File Path edit controls
The edit controls that use the "File name and full path" input mask propose several AAFs (Automatic Application Features): a specific popup menu used to handle the file. a file preview in thumbnail format (for an Image or PDF file path)....
WDSQL: Connecting to a database
The first operation to perform in order to use WDSQL is to establish the connection to a database......
Creating an SSL certificate that can be used with SocketCreateSSL
To create an SSL server with SocketCreateSSL, you must use a signed certificate containing a private key......
iPrint (Function)
Sends the character string passed as parameter to the print buffer.
iXPos (Function)
Used to manage the horizontal position (X-coordinate) of print cursor in the page.