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 WINDEV, WEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2025
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
Text (Property)
The Text property is used to get and modify text.
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
<Image variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type Image.
Using Unicode in HFSQL data files
The analysis proposes two types of Unicode items...
<Image variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in an Image variable.
Analysis editor: the different types of sections
The different types of items proposed in the data model editor are as follows:
AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for:
  • an animated image (in an Image control),
  • an animated text (in a Static Text control).
dText (Function)
Draws a text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
<Image>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image control.
<Image>AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image field.
fLoadText (Function)
Loads the contents of a text file into any text field or variable (string variable, window edit control, report label field, etc.).
AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image or Static Text control.
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type WDPic.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
<WDPic variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a WDPic variable.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type picLayer.
<Image variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image variable.
<picLayer variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a picLayer variable.
<Image>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text in an Image control.
HTMLToText (Function)
Converts an HTML string or buffer to text.
<Libellé>.AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for a Static Text control.
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a picLayer variable.
TextToHTML (Function)
Converts a text string into an HTML string (carriage returns are replaced by <BR>accents are replaced by their HTML equivalent, ...).
<Image>.AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for a moving image (in an Image field).
dTextHeight (Function)
Calculates text height in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
dTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable,
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
<Libellé>AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for animated text (in a Static Text control).
dTextWidth (Function)
Calculates text width in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a WDPic variable.
<Image>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in an Image control.
dTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable.
Text (Property)
Text is used to find out whether an item is a text item.
Typing multilingual texts
For a multilingual application, you have the ability to......
Extracting the text of the project
The following text can be extracted......
Reintegrating text into a project
All the text form the translation file can be reintegrated into a project......
Printing a watermark text
A report (and a duplicate copy) can include an additional text in the format of a watermark,...
Text formatting variant
You can customize text attributes such as character spacing, line spacing and font size in a window...
The Rich Text Area control
The Rich Text Area control is a Static control offering several layout possibilities......
Report viewer: Text copy
The report viewer allows you to copy text from the report and paste it to a file in another...
OCR: Convert an image to text
An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system analyzes an image to extract the text it contains......
Message text file format
The text files created by WDMSG use a specific format......
Search and full-text index
HFSQL proposes a quick search for character strings in the data......
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
Reintegrating translated text into a project
Once the translation of framework libraries ("......
Report based on a text file
In a report based on a text file, the information to print is read from a text file or is directly...
Search the selected text on the Internet (AAF)
The context menu of Edit controls includes a "Search on Internet" option for the term selected...
Managing a Text token Edit control
...Interfaces that use token controls are common. A Token control contains variable amounts...
The Text control: Input or display masks
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile propose two types of masks......
Rich Text Area control properties
A Rich Text Area control can be handled in a window by the following WLanguage properties......
Handling HTML text in an Edit control
...WEBDEV allows you to handle text in HTML via the "HTML format" option of the Edit controls...
Handling a Rich Text Area control through programming
To handle a Rich Text Area control programmatically, use the variable of the Rich Text Area control...
Rich text, links and images in the WEBDEV controls
Rich text supports multiple advanced features: font, weight, size, color, attribute, ......
Events associated with a Rich Text Area control
WEBDEV manages the following events by default (order of appearance in the code editor)......
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