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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.
Definition (Type of variable)
The Definition type is used to find out the characteristics of a type: simple type, advanced...
Property Description (Type of variable)
The Property Description type is used to get information about a property.
zipArchivedFile (Type of variable)
The zipArchivedFile type is used to handle a file found in an archive in one of the following...
xmlDocument (Type of variable)
The xmlDocument type is used to handle an XML file.
The Rating control
The Rating control allows the user to: indicate the popularity level of an element via repeated...
grStartAngle (Function)
Sets the starting angle of the first section in the following types of chart: Pie,...
Camera control: decoding bar codes
In iOS and Android, bar codes can be decoded via the Camera control using BCCapture......
MacOS - Developing an application in Catalyst mode
Apple has recently released an SDK to natively compile iOS applications for MacOS......
Report with parameters
When printing a report, you have the ability to pass parameters to this report......
Arithmetic operators
The arithmetic operators are......
Duration (Type of variable)
The Duration type enables you to easily handle the intervals of dates and times...
Time (Type of variable)
The Time type is used to easily handle the times...
Hour (Property)
The Hour property is used to: Get the time from a variable of type Time or DateTime,...
BackgroundImage (Property)
The BackgroundImage property is used to identify and modify the background color of an element:...
Thread management constants
List of constants used by the functions for managing threads, critical sections, semaphores,...
HMergeView (Function)
Creates an HFSQL view from two previously created views (HCreateView). This function uses...
SQLColumn (Function)
Returns the characteristics of all the columns (or items): for a given table. for a given...
SQLCol (Function)
Retrieves the content of the specified column from the query result, for the current line.
The "Pie", "Donut" or "Semi-circular" charts
Several types of charts belong to the same family......
FTPSend (Function)
Transfers a file or directory to an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol).
HSeek (Function)
Positions on the first record of the data file whose value for a specific item is greater...
Handling a Progress Bar control through programming
A Progress Bar control can be handled through programming......
EmailDeleteMessage (Function)
Deletes the current email using the current protocol (POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes...
EmailStartSMTPSession (Function)
Starts a session for sending emails with the SMTP protocol.
EmailNbMessage (Function)
Returns the number of incoming messages currently found: on the email server (POP3 protocol...