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Version: 2025

Developing an application for iPhone/iPad
The development of an iPhone/iPad application is performed in 2 steps:
Specific features of iPhone/iPad applications
Generating an iOS application
Several steps must be performed to develop an iPhone/iPad application:
Signature of iOS applications
Signing an application is mandatory from Xcode 8...
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...
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.).
Summary table: Application directory management by platform
Action Bar of a window
Action Bars replace the title bar of a window and display different types of information...
fListResource (Function)
Lists the resources integrated to the application.
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
The pages
Pages are the main interface of a WEBDEV website...
tapiDialerCall (Function)
Opens the default telephony application (dialer) found on the phone and dials the specified number.
AnimationDuration (Property)
The AnimationDuration property is used to know and define the length of time an animation takes...
TimestampType (Property)
The TimestampType property is used to: Find out the type of timestamp for an item. This item...
CalculatedItemExpression (Property)
The CalculatedItemExpression property is used to: Find out the SQL expression that defines...
Shape control properties
Shape controls in windows, pages and reports can be handled using different WLanguage properties......
zipArchive (Type of variable)
The zipArchive type is used to handle an archive file in one of the following formats: ZIP, CAB,...
CheckBoxInsert (Function)
Inserts a new option into a Check Box control.
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...
HTTPSend (Function)
Sends an HTTP request and waits for the response from the HTTP server.
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...