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Version: 2025

Analysis shared between earlier WINDEV applications and WINDEV 2025 applications
An analysis can be shared between a WINDEV application...
General environment of WINDEV
New features in WINDEV 2025
WINDEV 2025 is now available!
WINDEV 2025 Tutorial - Table of contents
Transforming a WINDEV project into Mobile: a detailed audit
Transforming WINDEV applications into Mobile is very easy...
2024 new features brochure: WINDEV new features
WINDEV 2024 new features in the 2024 New Features brochure.
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile tools
The following tools are provided with WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile
WINDEV 2025: New WLanguage features
In version 2025, new functions, properties and data types have been introduced and some have been improved, ...
New products brochure 28: WINDEV new products
New features in WINDEV 28 presented in the New Features brochure.
2025 new features brochure: WINDEV new features
What's new in WINDEV 2025 in the What's new 2025 brochure.
Importing a WINDEV window into a WEBDEV website
The Windows windows developed with WINDEV...
Installing WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile
This page describes the configuration required to install WINDEV, WEBDEV or WINDEV Mobile, as well as the different installation steps...
Organizing the directories of a project
When creating a project, a directory specific to this project is automatically created...
Easier navigation in the editors
The navigation in the editors is simplified by the presence of a new dynamic navigation bar, enabled by [CTRL] + [TAB]...
Creating and deploying the installation program: How do you do it?
Creating the setup program allows you to deploy a WINDEV application on the end-user computers...
Environment of the project editor
The main elements of the project editor are as follows:
Functions for handling commands in console mode
Functions for handling commands in console mode.
Functions for handling commands in console mode (prefix syntax)
Functions for handling commands in console mode.
InWindowsMobileMode (Function)
Indicates whether the code is run:
  • from a Windows Mobile application.
  • from a WINDEV application, from a WEBDEV website or from a PHP application.
Function kept for backward compatibility.
How to access the help?
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile include several methods for accessing the help system at any time...
Various functions
List of various functions found in WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV.
TableColumnIndex (Function)
Returns the index of a column in a Table or Treeview Table control.
ExceptionThrow (Function)
Artificially triggers the security mechanism of WLanguage by throwing an exception.
InitWindow (Function)
Initializes (or not) the controls to zero and runs the initialization processes of the controls...
CriticalSectionEnd (Function)
Marks the end of critical section: the code will be run by another thread.
ListDeleteAll (Function)
Clears a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control populated programmatically.
ListDelete (Function)
Deletes an element from a List Box, ListView or Combo Box control populated programmatically.
The indexed controls
A control is an indexed control if it contains several controls with the same name......
grGridlines (Function)
Displays or hides the chart gridlines.
grLineThickness (Function)
Retrieves and/or modifies the value of the line thickness in a line chart....
grSaveBMP (Function)
Saves a chart that was previously drawn in a file in BMP format.
iNestedHeaderFooter (Function)
Prints (or not) the page headers and footers of nested report.
xlsOpen (Function)
Opens an Excel file (xls or xlsx files).
iSubstBlock (Function)
Substitutes one block of the report with another block while the report is printed.
mongoGridFS (Type of variable)
The mongoGridFS type is used to define the advanced characteristics of a file system for a MongoDB...
DelayBeforeClosing (Function)
Limits the display duration of a window or dialog box. If no user action is performed,...
Multiline Zone control properties
A Multiline Zone control and the lines of a Multiline Zone control can be handled in a window...
Description (Property)
The Description property is used to get and change the description of an element.
Background
The "Background" keyword can correspond to: the Background variable, the Background property...
Style (Property)
The Style property is used to: retrieve or assign the entire style of a control (including...
SysMetric (Function)
Returns the resolution of a specific element.
fRename (Example)
Usage example of the fRename function
zipSize (Example)
Usage example of the zipSize function
zipNbPartNeeded (Example)
Usage example of the zipNbPartNeeded function
AdditionalParameters (Property)
The Property Additional Parameters allows you to specify additional parameters...
NumberColumn (Property)
The NumberColumn property is used to get and change the number of columns of an element.