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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
The source code manager
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose a sophisticated Source Code Manager......
Multiline strings
To type character strings over several lines in the code editor...
Pivot Table control properties
A Pivot Table control can be handled in a window by the following WLanguage properties......
SpreadsheetRecalculateAll (Function)
Recalculates all formulas of a Spreadsheet control found in a window (including the formulas that use WLanguage functions/procedures)....
SpreadsheetDeleteAll (Function)
Deletes the entire data from a Spreadsheet control found in a window (cells, formulas, size and header layouts).
ActionBarSearchVisible (Function)
Allows you to get and change the visibility status of the search control associated with the Action Bar in the current window.
VerticalSwipe (Property)
The VerticalSwipe property is used to determine and change the swipe direction in an internal window with swipe gesture support.
<Spreadsheet>.RecalculateAll (Function)
Recalculates all formulas of a Spreadsheet control found in a window (including the formulas that use WLanguage functions/procedures)....
<Spreadsheet>.DeleteAll (Function)
Deletes the entire data from a Spreadsheet control found in a window (cells, formulas, size and header layouts).
StatusBar (Property)
The StatusBar property is used to: find out whether the status bar is displayed or not display (or not) the status bar of a window....
FullName (Property)
The FullName property is used to find out the full name: of a control. of a window. of a menu option. of a table column....
BackgroundImage (Property)
The BackgroundImage property is used to identify and modify the background color of an element: window, page, control or report.
HourGlass (Function)
Transforms the mouse cursor into hourglass (and conversely). In Android and iOS, displays an endless progress bar in a window....
Screen,Coordinate (External language)
Retrieves the coordinates of the control in relation to the top left border of the window as well as the physical size of a control.
Check Box control properties
Several WLanguage properties can be used on the Check Box controls found in a window, in a page or in a report......
Radio Button control properties
List of properties associated with a Radio Button control...
SQLExecWDR (Function)
Runs the SQL code of a query created in the query editor.
<Image editor>.Close (Function)
Closes the image found in an Image Editor control.
<Image Editor>.Save (Function)
Saves the image displayed in the Image Editor control.
PicClose (Function)
Closes the image found in an Image Editor control.
HTMLEditorSelect (Function)
Selects a text fragment in an HTML Editor control.
HTMLEditorExecuteJS (Function)
Executes JavaScript code in an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.Select (Function)
Selects a text fragment in an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.ExecuteJS (Function)
Executes JavaScript code in an HTML Editor control.
NullableIndex (Property)
The NullIableIndex property determines if a key item supports the "Null" value.