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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.
fBuildPath (Function)
Builds a complete file path from the directory and short name of a file. This function is mainly used to get a valid file name without having to worry about the presence of separators in the path ('/' or '\') or about their direction according to the platform....
<Array>.Filter (Function)
Returns an array containing the elements of a source array for which a procedure returns True.
fDelete (Function)
Deletes a file accessible from the current computer.
fMoveDir (Function)
Moves a directory and its content.
fMakeDir (Function)
Creates a directory (and the intermediate directories if necessary).
fTrackDirectory (Function)
Detects the modifications performed on the content of a directory.
fExtractPath (Function)
Returns the different elements of a path: disk, directories, name and extension of the file.
<DiskFile variable>.Size (Function)
Returns the size of a file (in bytes).
fListFile (Function)
Lists the files found in a directory and returns the list of files.
Filter (Function)
Returns an array containing the elements of a source array for which a procedure returns True.
HNotifListEmailRecipient (Function)
Returns the list of recipients for a notification by email.
HNotifListCCRecipient (Function)
Returns the list of recipients of a notification sent via the Control Centers (WDBal messaging tool).
HNotifDeleteCCRecipient (Function)
Deletes the recipients of a notification sent via the Control Centers (WDBal messaging tool).
HNotifDeleteEmailRecipient (Function)
Deletes the recipients of an email notification.
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fSize (Function)
Returns the size of a file (in bytes).
ChangeSkinTemplate (Function)
Dynamically changes the skin template: of all windows found in the current application, of the windows found in the WINDEV components used by the application, of a specific window found in the project....
fCopyFile (Function)
Copies one or more files (regardless of their attributes).
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fResourceDir (Function)
Returns the path of the read-only resources of the application.
fDataDirUser (Function)
Returns a directory path for the data of the current user of the current application.
<String type>.BufferToHexa (Function)
Converts an Ansi or Unicode string to a hexadecimal string (e.g.: "4A 5B 00").
fLongName (Function)
Returns the long name of a file or directory.
fDecrypt (Function)
Decrypts a file that was encrypted by fCrypt.
fSelect (Function)
Opens the Windows file picker.