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Version: 2025

WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
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)...
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...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
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...
Creating a window skin template
WDMap: Adding, modifying and deleting the records of a data file
WDMap allows you to perform simple operations (addition, modification or deletion) on the records found in a data file......
Data model editor: the different types of items
The different types of items proposed in the data model editor are as follows:
Query and project
Preset control properties
List of properties associated with the Preset control...
HTMLEditorGet (Function)
Asynchronously retrieves the value of one of the properties of an HTML Editor control.
<HTML editor>.Get (Function)
Asynchronously retrieves the value of one of the properties of an HTML Editor control.
DiagramInfoXY (Function)
Indicates the presence of a shape at a given position in the Diagram Editor control.
<Diagram editor>.DiagramInfoXY (Function)
Indicates the presence of a shape at a given position in the Diagram Editor control.
<Dashboard>.InitialConfiguration (Function)
Modifies the configuration of a Dashboard control (defined in the editor) before its first display.
Impact analysis
The impact analysis immediately identifies the consequences of the latest changes......
Creating anchors
The anchors are used to define specific points in a help page......
Setup wizard: Steps for creating a WINDEV application setup program
The setup program creation wizard allows you to define all the settings of your setup program....
Events associated with control templates
List of events associated with control templates...
Events associated with a Sliding Banner control
WEBDEV manages the following events by default (order of appearance in the code editor)...
Events associated with a Rich Text Area control
WEBDEV manages the following events by default (order of appearance in the code editor)......
Dictionary properties
The properties of a WDTRAD dictionary are as follows......
SourceToPage (Function)
Automatically updates the controls of a page with: the values of the bound items in the current record (loaded in memory) of the HFSL data file described in the data model editor. the values of the bound WLanguage variables....
TestWriteResult (Function)
Writes information or an error into the status report of a unit test, in the test editor.
Border (Property)
The Border property is used to get and change the characteristics of the borders: for a report control or block. for a window control. for a cell of a Table control....
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Events associated with a Popup control
WEBDEV manages the following events by default (order of appearance in the code editor):
IndentLineDetails (Property)
The IndentLineDetails property is used to get or change the value of the left indent of the internal window that shows the details of a row of a Table control.
InternalWindowPopup (Property)
The InternalWindowPopup property is used to get and modify the name of the internal window used to customize the content of marker popups in a Map control.
MDIBottom (Property)
The MDIBottom property is used to determine and change the distance between the bottom border of the MDI parent window and the bottom border of the MDI area.
MDIRight (Property)
The MDIRight property is used to determine and modify the distance between the right border of the MDI parent window and the right border of the MDI area.