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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
<Window>.EdSelectOccurrence (Function)
Indicates the number of controls selected when the interface is modified by the end user ("Allow end users to modify the UI" option enabled).
<Window>.EdSelectPlus (Function)
Selects a control when the interface is modified by the end user ("Allow end users to modify the UI" option enabled).
<Window>.EdSelectMinus (Function)
Deselects a control when the interface is modified by the end user ("Allow end users to modify the UI" option enabled).
VisibleEndUser (Property)
The VisibleEndUser property is used to: Find out whether an item is visible or not to the end users. This item was defined in the data model editor or programmatically. Define whether an item must be visible or not to the end users (item described programmatically only)....
UI compilation errors
UI compilation errors indicate the possible problems detected in your interfaces whenever a window, a page or a report is saved or whenever the project is recompiled......
Checkers available in the code editor
The code editor proposes several tools used to correct the code......
Automatic button execution (Window)
To force an action on a window, all you have to do is define a button of this window in "Automatic execution" mode......
Creating the summary
Users are familiar with summaries, as the summary is the first element they look at in printed documentation......
NbKeyItem (Property)
The NbKeyItem property is used to get the total number of key items (including composite keys) in a record of: a file described in the data model editor, a file described through programming, an HFSQL view, a query....
TimestampType (Property)
The TimestampType property is used to: Find out the type of timestamp for an item. This item was defined in the data model editor or through programming. Define the type of timestamp for a Date, Time or DateTime item (when describing the item through programming)....
FishEye
The "FishEye" effect is used to enlarge a section of editor graphs (analysis graph, UML graph, ......
Database of the Control Centers
The database of Control Centers groups various information shared by the different modules found in WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile......
fIsImage (Function)
Used to find out whether a file found on disk or a file contained in a buffer corresponds to an image format recognized by WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile.
Client application: Running procedures on a server of.Net services
Several DotNet functions are available in WINDEV......
LockAppOn (Function)
Locks a WINDEV application.
The Scrollbar control
...The Scrollbar control is used to scroll objects (text, captions, etc....
Using the task management and the schedule
Time management is extremely important......
HFSQL in network mode on a server running Windows NT4, 2000, XP or 2003
The access speed to the data in network depends on several parameters (see the section......
Skin template generator
Development teams that have design expertise sometime want to be able to create their own skin templates......
End of Document block
The End of document block is run once at the end of the report execution......
ListViewMode (Property)
The ListViewMode property is used to: Find out the display mode of a ListView control. Modify the display mode of a ListView control....
How to access the help?
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile include several methods for accessing the help system at any time......
Choosing the action associated with the link
You can associate an action with the link regardless of the type of link......
Properties associated with the breaks of a Table control
Several properties can be used with the breaks found in a Table control......
WLanguage functions available for a report
Most WLanguage functions can be used in the events of a report (created with the report editor)......