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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
WinChangeAlias (Function)
Modifies the alias of a window.
SysWinTitle (Function)
Returns the title of the window.
Java application and WINDEV
A Java application is an application entirely compiled in Java......
grDestinationWnd (Function)
Defines a window as chart destination.
The ActiveX control
The ActiveX control is used to easily manage the ActiveX technology......
Font (Property)
The Font property is used to Get the identifier of the font used in a control in a report, page or window. Change the font used in a control in a report, page or window....
The Progress Bar control
The Progress Bar control is used to follow the progress of an event......
Binding Bar Code controls to items
A Bar Code control can be bound to an item in a data file, query, etc....
Description of a Pivot Table control
The description window of a Pivot Table control is used to configure several elements of the control......
ExecuteUpdateUI (Function)
Immediately executes the "Request for refreshing the display" event of the window, page, internal window, internal page, control template or supercontrol. This function is kept for backward compatibility.
Message (Property)
The Message property is used to: Find out the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window). Modify the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window)....
ControlDelete (Function)
Permanently deletes a control from a window, page or report.
Display modes, transparency and symmetry of an image
An image can be displayed in a window, a window control, a report control, a page control or a block according to several display modes....
Screen,Input (External language)
Starts the input in the controls of a window.
Handle (External language)
Returns the handle of a window or control.
HsMenu,Name (External language)
Adds a menu into the window that is opened.
WaitWindowStart (Function)
Opens the wait window of application.
<Window>.OpenMobileWindow (Function)
Opens a window in a mobile application.
WinStatus (Function)
Identifies or modifies the window status.
CurrentWin (Function)
Identifies the window currently in edit.
SysSetFocus (Function)
Sets focus to a window or control.
SysWinShow (Function)
Modifies the display status of a window.
SysValidHandle (Function)
Checks the validity of a window handle.
iWindowCancel (Function)
Configures the print cancel window..
Properties associated with a window
List of properties associated with a window...