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Version: 2025

Creating a window skin template
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...
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...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
Telemetry: Viewing data
To see the results of telemetry data for your applications, WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose a telemetry editor......
MaxWidth (Property)
The MaxWidth property is used to get and change the maximum width of a control or window.
Gantt Chart report
The report editor gives you the ability to create "Gantt Chart" reports......
7. Custom-Folders: Organize your project
Custom-Folders: Organize your project...
fDataDirCommon (Function)
Returns a directory path for the shared data of the current application: between all the users of the computer between all the TSE users This directory can be used without restriction in Windows XP, Vista, ... This directory is used to store: the files for the general configuration of the application (.INI files, .XML files, etc.). the data files common to all the users (HFSQL .fic, .ndx and .mmo files)....
Reloading a document
To reload a document, ......
The triggers
A trigger is a WLanguage procedure automatically called by the HFSQL engine whenever a modification is performed (addition, deletion, modification, ......
Tips for an application that uses the User Groupware
To simplify the configuration of user groupware according to the users, the controls should be organized in groups of controls......
TraceEnd (Function)
Closes the trace window if this window was opened or stops saving the trace information in a text file.
Opacity (Property)
The Opacity property is used to get and define the opacity percentage for a window, or for controls in a window or page.
Guided Tour
A Guided Tour presents a series of features, displayed in a tooltip in the current window or page......
MinWidth (Property)
The MinWidth property is used to get and change the minimum width of a control or window.
fCurrentDir (Function)
Identifies or modifies the current directory.
MDL file (kept for backward compatibility): Pattern description
The MDL file is the file used to generate a RAD window......
CurrentTitle (Function)
Modifies the title of the current window (returned by CurrentWin) and the title bar.
MaxHeight (Property)
The MaxHeight property is used to get and change the maximum height of a control or window.
OpenPopupPosition (Function)
Opens a popup window by specifying its opening position and waits until it is closed.
The HTML Editor control
The HTML Editor control allows users to create and modify HTML pages......
Data model editor: Describing a connection
Any program developed with WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile can easily access......
Creating a multilingual help system
The help editor allows you to easily create a multilingual help system......
MovableByBackground (Property)
The MovableByBackground property is used to: find out whether a window can be moved by the background, allow (or not) a window to be moved by the background....
Project elements
The project includes windows, reports, queries, help files, sets of procedures, ......
DelayBeforeClosing (Function)
Limits the display duration of a window or dialog box. If no user action is performed, when the specified amount of time is reached: for a window, the code of a window button will be run. for a dialog box, the dialog box is automatically closed....
Reverse code modeling
The reverse code modeling allows you to view in a graph......