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Version: 2025

Specific features of iPhone/iPad applications
Developing an application for iPhone/iPad
The development of an iPhone/iPad application is performed in 2 steps:
Compiling a WINDEV Mobile project in Xcode
When the WINDEV Mobile project for iPhone/iPad is generated on the development computer, the generated files must be transferred onto a Mac in order to be compiled...
Generating an iOS application
Several steps must be performed to develop an iPhone/iPad application:
fListResource (Function)
Lists the resources integrated to the application.
Non-maximized windows in iOS
A non-maximized window can occupy a section of the screen only...
Signature of iOS applications
Signing an application is mandatory from Xcode 8...
Speech synthesis in the mobile applications
The phones can talk!...
Managing contacts (mobile devices)
In your mobile applications, you can directly manage the contacts on your mobile device (Android, iPhone, iPad, etc.).
MacOS - Developing an application in Catalyst mode
Apple has recently released an SDK to natively compile iOS applications for MacOS...
Action Bar of a window
Action Bars replace the title bar of a window and display different types of information...
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
zipArchive (Type of variable)
The zipArchive type is used to handle an archive file in one of the following formats: ZIP, CAB,...
FullTextIndex description (Type of variable)
A FullTextIndex description variable is used to describe one or more full-text indexes...
gglMapParameter (Type of variable)
The gglMapParameter type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a map...
GPSStopDetection (Function)
Stops the location detection triggered by GPSDetectPosition.
Dashboard constants
Constants used by the functions for managing Dashboard controls...
Shape control properties
Shape controls in windows, pages and reports can be handled using different WLanguage properties......
zipExtractDirectory (Function)
Automatically extracts and decompresses files from a directory in the file tree of an archive...
OCR: Convert an image to text
An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system analyzes an image to extract the text it contains......
Numeric (Type of variable)
The numeric type is used to contain integer or decimal numbers by specifying if necessary:...
Link Description (Type of variable)
A Link Description variable is used to describe a link between two data files through programming.
Multiline strings
To type character strings over several lines in the code editor...
Millisecond (Property)
The Millisecond property is used to: Retrieve the number of milliseconds from a Time, DateTime...
Second (Property)
The Second property is used to: Retrieve the number of seconds from a Time, DateTime...
AnsiToUnicode (Function)
Converts: an ANSI string (Windows) to a UNICODE string. a buffer containing an ANSI string...
fDecrypt (Function)
Decrypts a file that was encrypted by fCrypt.
HExecuteView (Function)
Runs a view that was created beforehand (can be used to refresh the view data for example)....
HFilterStartsWith (Function)
Defines and enables a "Start with" filter on a file, view or query.
HFilterIncludedBetween (Function)
Defines and enables an "Included between" filter on a file, view or query.
SQLFirst (Function)
Positions on the first row of the query result.
Printing during the report test in the editor
During the test of a report ("Go" button from the report editor), several print options...
iPrintBarCode (Function)
Prints a bar code (inside a rectangle).
FOR ALL/FOR EACH statement (browse of strings)
The FOR EACH statement is used to browse strings according to different methods...
Connection (Type of variable)
The Connection type is used to describe one or more connections to external databases (HFSQL...
EmailImportHTML (Function)
Imports, into the Email structure or into an Email variable, the content of an HTML file in order...
Management of XML
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV include several functions for handling XML code......