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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
Installing 64-bit WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile
This chapter presents the configuration required to install WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile in 64-bit mode......
Camera control: decoding bar codes
In iOS and Android, bar codes can be decoded via the Camera control using BCCapture......
Start of Break block (Break header)
The Start of break block is optional......
Standard dialog boxes
The dialog boxes are standard windows that allow you to communicate with the user......
<Table>.AddTitleHeader (Function)
Adds a column title-header into a Table or TreeView Table control in a window.
Keyword properties
You can change the characteristics of a keyword at any time in the keyword properties......
MenuAddMenu (Function)
Adds a new menu to an existing drop-down or context menu of a window or page.
ControlVisible (Function)
Makes a control (or a group of controls) visible in a window. During this operation, an animation can be performed on the controls.
ControlInvisible (Function)
Makes a control (or a group of controls) invisible in a window. An animation can be set on the controls during this operation.
TableAddTitleHeader (Function)
Adds a column title-header into a Table or TreeView Table control in a window.
AppointmentCreate (Function)
Displays the window for appointment creation of native application for managing appointments found on the Android device.
UsefulWidth (Property)
The UsefulWidth property is used to get and change the useful width of an internal window (or supercontrol) with scrollbars.
UsefulHeight (Property)
The UsefulHeight property is used to get and change the useful height of an internal window (or supercontrol) with scrollbars.
SpreadsheetInputFunction (Function)
Inserts a function name at cursor position in the editable cell of a Spreadsheet control found in a window.
Count (Property)
Count keyword can correspond to: the Count function. This function returns the number of occurrences of a control in a window, page or group of controls. The Count property, which returns a number of elements. This property can be used on: the controls of a window or page. For more details, see Count. a xmlNode variable. a JSON variable....
<Menu>.AddMenu (Function)
Adds a new menu to an existing drop-down or context menu of a window or page.
Android 10: Modifying the behavior of applications
Starting with Android 10, Google no longer allows an application running in the background to open a window
BackgroundColor (Property)
The BackgroundColor property is used to set the background color of a control, window, page or block of a report.
MouseCursor (Property)
The MouseCursor property is used to identify and change the hover cursor defined for a control, window or page.
WinIconBarHeight (Function)
Returns or modifies the current height of the "Icon Bar" area in the current MDI parent window.
H.VisibleAutoIndexing (Variable)
Indicates whether the indexing window must be displayed during the automatic reindexing of HFSQL data files.
ErrorAsynchronous (Function)
Displays a custom error message in a non-blocking system error window.
Edit control properties
You can manipulate Edit controls in a window, page or report using the following WLanguage properties......
<Window>.OpenPopupAsynchronous (Function)
Opens a popup window whose result will be retrieved via a WLanguage procedure ("callback").
Layout control properties
You can manipulate Layout controls (and its cells) in a window or page using the following WLanguage properties......