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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
ScrollBarShow (Function)
Displays (or not) a scrollbar in a WINDEV control (edit control or list box) even if no scrollbar was specified during the control description.
NetSendFile (Function)
Transmits a file to an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol) powered by WINDEV. This function is kept for backward compatibility....
Assisted universal replication
To easily establish the universal replication between the data of a remote application and a central database, WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to......
1. Project audits
WINDEV Tutorial: Optimizing a project Lesson 1 - Project audits - 15 min
Creating the executable and the setup program
WINDEV Tutorial - Deploying an application Creating the executable and the setup program - 30 min
Automatic feature for copying forms
When typing several copies of a form one after another, some of the information to type may be the same for each instance of the form......
6. Procedures
WINDEV Tutorial - WLanguage basics Lesson 6 - Procedures - 20 min
WDInst: grouping the files to install
By default, when generating the setup program, the files to install are compressed in a single archive file ("......
TransparencyMode (Property)
The TransparencyMode property is used to get and change the transparency mode of an image.
Managing users
The monitoring robot allows you to manage the users related to the different check error reports......
Page Header block
The Page header block is printed on each new page......
Native Informix Connector: Programming with HFSQL functions
To use an Informix database with the Native Connector, import the structure of Informix tables into the WINDEV or WEBDEV analysis......
Native Sybase Connector: Programming with HFSQL functions
To use a Sybase database with Native Connector, the structure of Sybase tables must be imported into the WINDEV or WEBDEV analysis......
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Handling a Breadcrumb control through programming
The Breadcrumb control can be handled through programming......
5. Webservices
WINDEV allows you to easily use Webservices (or XML Web services)....
Domotics: Overview
The home automation via power-line carrier (X10) has now become reality......
Creating and handling an item
The main operations that can be performed on an item are as follows......
Handling a report (in the editor)
Once a report was created, the description of this report can be modified at any time......
Window management functions (prefixed syntax)
List of functions for managing windows...
Automatic data file modification: new date format
From WINDEV 7 and WEBDEV 7 version 149, new date and time formats are available for the Hyper File files......
1. WLanguage
WINDEV Mobile tutorial: WLanguage basics Lesson 1 - WLanguage - 5 min
8. OOP
WINDEV Tutorial - WLanguage basics Lesson 8 - OOP - 30 min
Frequently asked questions about Automatic Update
Frequently asked questions about the update search mechanism....
NetGetFile (Function)
Retrieves an existing file from an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol) powered by WINDEV. This function is kept for backward compatibility....