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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
pdfDocument (Type of variable)
The pdfDocument type gets all the characteristics of a PDF file: author, date created, page content, etc.
fOpenTempFile (Function)
Creates and opens a temporary file.
PDF Reader control functions
The following functions are used to manage PDF Reader controls:...
fDirRename (Function)
Renames a directory.
ChangeKeyboard (Function)
Gets or sets the language associated with the keyboard.
HListREP (Function)
Returns the list of assignments for the data files handled by the current application, which means the list of physical files corresponding to the files described in the analysis.
TableCount (Function)
Returns: the number of columns found in a Table or TreeView Table control. the number of rows found in a Table or TreeView Table control....
TestCheck (Function)
Writes a result into the status report of a test according to the result of a boolean expression.
NFC constants
List of constants used by the NFC functions...
mongoWriteConcern (Type of variable)
The mongoWriteConcern type is used to define the level of acknowledgment of receipt requested for the write operations in a stand-alone mongod, in a set of replicas or in fragmented clusters.
mongoGridFSFileInfo (Type of variable)
The mongoGridFSFileInfo type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a file in a MongoDB database.
FirstDayOfYear (Function)
Returns the date of the first day of the year.
TestError (Function)
Provokes: an assertion during the test of element or project (Go mode). an error in automated test mode....
PDFReaderOpen (Function)
Opens a PDF file displayed in a PDF Reader control.
HCS.FrameSize (Variable)
The HCS.FrameSize variable is used to resize the outgoing data frame.
Constants for managing fonts
List of constants used by the functions for font management....
Print constants
List of constants used by the print functions....
DocOpen (Function)
Opens a Word Processing file (docx format) in Read/Write mode. The docx file is opened and locked until it is closed....
AutomationParameter (Function)
Configures the management of accesses to the ActiveX objects and to the Automation objects.
iOSAppGroupDirectory (Function)
Returns the path of the container used to share files between several applications belonging to the same iOS App Group.
Constants for managing Table, Treeview Table, Looper and List Box controls
List of constants used by the functions for managing Table, TreeView Table, Looper and List Box controls....
xmlSignatureReference (Type of variable)
The xmlSignatureReference type is used to add a reference section into the XML signature.
TableToExcel (Function)
Creates an Excel file with the data from a Table or TreeView Table control.
TableSelect (Function)
Returns the index of the selected element in the Table or TreeView Table control.
SysEnvironment (Function)
Returns the environment variables of the operating system for the current computer.