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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
Describing a query
Once a query is created, all the characteristics of this query can be modified at any time......
Image catalog
As soon as an image can be used (in a control, in a window, in a report, ......
Warning 124: Shadowing a global variable
The UAC mechanism in Windows Vista (and later)
To increase security against worms and viruses, Windows Vista/7 implemented the UAC (User Account Control) mechanism......
Local storage management functions
The following functions are used to manage the local storage of data in browser code....
Events associated with a Dockable Panel control
RTFSelection (Function)
Modifies or lists attributes of text currently selected in an control RTF (from a window or report WINDEV).
Events associated with a Gantt Chart column
Properties associated with the areas defined in Zoning mode
13. Reports
WINDEV Mobile allows you to easily create and print all types of reports with the report editor....
Action Bar control events
Scheduler control: Customize appointments
In the Scheduler control, the appointment is displayed in a specific area......
Adapting an application to support multiple languages
WINDEV Tutorial - Managing multiple languages Adapting an application to support multiple languages - 20 min
Window control search functions
WINDEV allows the user to perform a search among all the texts found in a window or in a control......
The "dynamic" Tab control
The "Dynamic tab" Tab control is used to display several windows in the same window......
Controls of a dynamic page
Several types of controls can be handled in a dynamic page ......
Aliases on data files: HAlias
The aliases are used to handle......
1. Project and analysis
8. External component
An external component is a set of WINDEV Mobile elements: windows, reports, analysis, etc....
Application patch
Once an application was installed, the application library had to be reinstalled whenever a modification was performed (WDL file)......
Alias (Property)
The Alias property is used to: get or change the alias of a window (WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile). get or change the alias of a dynamic tab (WINDEV). get the internal HTML/JavaScript name of a control (WEBDEV)....
12. Control templates
WINDEV Mobile allows you to create control templates....
Ribbon (Property)
The Ribbon property is used to access the Ribbon control of the associated control (Word Processing, PDF Reader, Spreadsheet, Image Editor, HTML Editor or Diagram Editor controls).
Comparing controls
In some cases, you may need to compare two controls in one or more windows or pages......
Installer skin template
The setup program creation wizard lets you customize the setup program windows......