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Version: 2025

HListConnection (Function)
Returns the list of connections currently described in the application:
  • connections described in the data model editor (for the main analysis and, if necessary, additional analyses).
  • connections described by programming (with functions HDescribeConnection or HOpenConnection).
<Source>.ChangeConnection (Function)
Dynamically changes the connection associated with a data file.
SQLConnect (Function)
Connects the current application to a database that must be interrogated via SQL.
SQLChangeConnection (Function)
Modifies the current connection.
HDescribeConnection (Function)
Describes a new connection to an external database.
<Connection variable>.OpenConnection (Function)
Opens a connection to a specific database.
HConnect (Function)
Redefines one or more connection parameters via Native Connector (Access, SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle) or via an OLE DB access on a specific table or set of tables.
Optional connection information
When defining the connections in the data model editor or when defining the connections through programming, you have the ability to specifier the optional connection information...
<Connection variable>.CloseConnection (Function)
Closes a connection to a database.
SQLConnectWS (Function)
Connects the current application to a database that will be queried by SQL through a web service proxy (SOAP).
HListFile (Function)
Returns the list of files:
  • current analysis.
  • analyses in progress (projects with multiple analyses).
  • a specific analysis recognized by the HFSQL engine.
  • available on a connection via a Native Connector or an OLE DB driver.
  • for a group of files defined in the data model editor.
HOpenConnection (Function)
Opens a connection to a specific database.
HChangeConnection (Function)
Dynamically changes the connection associated with a data file.
Screen,Column (External language)
Returns the index of the current column in a Table based on a data file or in a Table populated programmatically.
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.
Screen,Current (External language)
Retrieves the name of the control being edited and its index, if necessary.
Screen,ScreenToFile (External language)
Initializes the file items with the value of the window controls bound to these items.
Screen,FileToScreen (External language)
Initializes the window controls with the values of the file items linked to the controls.
Library,Error (External language)
Loads the file that contains the error messages handled by WD??EXE.DLL in the desired language.
Screen,First (External language)
Indicates the name of the first editable control or the name of the next control that must be in edit.
Screen,Raz (External language)
Resets to zero (for a numeric control) or clears (for the other types of controls) the content of the controls found in the current window.
Screen,Get (External language)
Retrieves the value in a control or in a variable.
Screen,Input (External language)
Starts the input in the controls of a window.
Screen,Selection (External language)
Modifies the status of a control (invisible, active, inactive, grayed)
Screen,Next (External language)
Returns the name of the next editable control.
Screen,XVar (External language)
Defines whether a control is included (or not) in the current window.
HsMenu,Status (External language)
Returns the status of a menu option (active, invisible, grayed).
HsMenu,Mark (External language)
Finds out whether a menu option is marked or not.
HsMenu,Name (External language)
Adds a menu into the window that is opened.
HsMenu,Select (External language)
Selects or deselects, makes invisible, marks or unmarks an option found in the current menu.
List,Add (External language)
Adds an element to a Combo Box or List Box control.
List,Search (External language)
Finds a value in a list.
List,Insert (External language)
Inserts an element at the given index of a drop-down or expanded list.
List,Modify (External language)
Modifies an element in a drop-down list or in an expanded list.
List,Count (External language)
Returns the number of elements found in a list.
List,Position (External language)
Position the first element displayed in the list or returns the subscript of the first element displayed.
List,Get (External language)
Retrieves the value of a given element or the value of the selected element in a drop-down list or in an expanded list.
List,Select,? (External language)
Returns the element selected in the list.