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 WINDEVWEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2025

Code snippets
The code editor allows you to enter "Code snippets"...
Navigation history in the code
The different editors enable you to directly view the code of an element by pressing the F2 key...
Server code/Browser code
WEBDEV allows you to create static pages and dynamic pages...
Conditional target-code
The code editor allows you to enter a specific code for each environment (WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile)...
Project anomalies: dead code and orphan elements
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to easily detect these "dead codes" and "orphan" elements.
Reverse code modeling
The reverse code modeling allows you to view in a graph...
MySource (Reserved word)
MySource is used to handle the current data source (file, view or query) associated with a report or with a table based on a data file...
InWebSocketServerMode (Function)
Indicates if the current code is being executed on the WebSocket server.
MyInternalWindow (Reserved word)
MyInternalWindow is used to handle the current internal window.
ExecuteCode (Function)
Runs the WLanguage code found in a character string.
InWebSocketServerGlobalServiceMode (Function)
Indicates if the current code is being executed on the global service of the WebSocket server.
InTSEMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run:
  • from a computer in TSE mode or from a remote desktop.
  • from a computer directly.
Project dashboard
The project dashboard provides an overall view of project status via different widgets....
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...
MyWindow (Reserved word)
The keyword MyWindow keyword is used to manipulate the current window...
Automatically executed processes / events in an application
Several actions are automatically performed when opening or closing an application.
InBackgroundMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run when the application is in background.
InComponentMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run:
  • from a WINDEV application, a WEBDEV website or a PHP page.
  • from a component.
Programming by preset action
Preset actions allow you to define the code of an event in a single click, without having to write one single line of code...
InAJAXMode (Function)
Specifies whether the code is run from:
InDeviceOwnerMode (Function)
Indicates whether the Android application is in "Device owner" mode.
InKioskMode (Function)
Indicates whether the Android application is in kiosk mode.
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file......
Drag and Drop from the explorer
The Drag and Drop from the explorer consists in selecting one or more files in the Windows explorer...
NoSpace (Function)
Returns a string after removing the spaces: from the left and right side of the initial string....
Upper (Function)
Converts all characters in a string to uppercase according to the region settings defined...
InitWindow (Function)
Initializes (or not) the controls to zero and runs the initialization processes of the controls...
LoadError (Function)
Loads the file containing the error messages in the desired language into memory.
FinCurrentVal (Function)
Returns the current value of investment.
Multitask (Function)
MultiTask is used to: define a timeout, give control back to Windows, give control back...
J2EEAddHeader (Function)
Adds a header to the next procedure that will be run on the server.
grGridlines (Function)
Displays or hides the chart gridlines.
grLineThickness (Function)
Retrieves and/or modifies the value of the line thickness in a line chart....
grSaveBMP (Function)
Saves a chart that was previously drawn in a file in BMP format.
zipIsMulti (Function)
Returns the type of archive: single-part archive or multi-part archive.
SocketCreateUDP (Function)
Creates a socket that uses the UDP protocol.
How to avoid displaying the URL of WEBDEV pages in the browser?
By default, when the user connects to a site developed with WEBDEV, the address bar of the browser...
xlsOpen (Function)
Opens an Excel file (xls or xlsx files).
Server (Property)
The Server property is used to manage the data source of a connection (HFSQL Client/Server, OLE DB,...
dbgStandardOutput (Function)
Writes an information into the standard output stream "stdout" (also called "console").
BurnerMediaInfo (Function)
Retrieves the characteristics of the CD/DVD found in the current burner....
iSubstBlock (Function)
Substitutes one block of the report with another block while the report is printed.
mongoGridFS (Type of variable)
The mongoGridFS type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a file system for a MongoDB...
Brochure of new features: New WINDEV features
New features in WINDEV 28 presented in the New Features brochure....
Linking a Scheduler control to a data file or variable
You can create Scheduler controls directly linked to the data....
Native Progress Connector: Programming with HFSQL functions
To use a Progress database with the Native Connector, you must ......
ChangeCharset (Function)
Retrieves and/or changes the character set used: by all the screen fonts....