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Drag and Drop functions
The following functions are used to manage Drag and Drop:
WINDEV: Example of programmed Drag and Drop
An iOS application with an iOS widget configuration can contain one or more iOS 14 widget windows...
Drag and Drop from the explorer
The Drag and Drop from the explorer consists in selecting one or more files in the Windows explorer and in transferring them into a control of a WINDEV window...
Automatic Drag and Drop
For some types of controls, WINDEV and WEBDEV offer an automatic management of Drag and Drop.
Drag and Drop
Drag and Drop is used to transfer data between several controls with the mouse. This data can be moved between several controls found in the same application or in different applications.
Drag-and-drop operation set programmatically
The programmed Drag and Drop is used to entirely manage Drag/Drop between the different types of controls...
HTML 5: Example of programmed drag-and-drop management
To make a WEBDEV website more interactive, you have the ability to implement Drag and Drop in the pages.
ExplorerRetrieve (Function)
Retrieves the number and the name of the files "dropped" from the explorer.
EmulateDnD (Function)
Emulates a "Drag & Drop" gesture in automated tests.
URL (Property)
The URL property is used to: Get the address associated with a control. Change the address associated with a control....
The TreeView control
The TreeView control is a tree structure used to simplify the display of information that can be represented hierarchically......
<Table>.Select (Function)
Returns the index of the selected element in the Table or TreeView Table control.
TableSelect (Function)
Returns the index of the selected element in the Table or TreeView Table control.
ContextClose (Function)
Closes a page context.
The single-part and multi-part archives
Two types of archives are available......
Debugger: Step-by-step project execution
Running a project step-by-step allows you to start the debugger when launching the application......
xmlAttribute (Type of variable)
The xmlAttribute type is used to handle the attributes of a node in an XML document.
xmlNode (Variable type)
The xmlNode type is used to handle a node of an XML document.
Migrating a WEBDEV site to PHP
To migrate a WEBDEV site to PHP......
Message (Property)
The Message property is used to: Find out the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window). Modify the help message associated with a control or with a menu option (in a window)....
Transactions in SQL
Starting with version 21, you can manage transactions in SQL code......
LinestringGeo (Variable type)
The LinestringGeo type is used to define all the advanced characteristics of a geographic linestring.
GeometrySerializeWKT (Function)
Serializes a geometry using the Well-Known Text (WKT) format.
<PolygonGeo variable>.SymmetricDifference (Function)
Calculates the symmetric difference between a geographic polygon and another geometry.
ChangeTarget (Function)
Changes the target of a button action.
ContextOpen (Function)
Opens a new page context without returning the information to the browser.
FramesetUse (Function)
Displays a WEBDEV frameset in the user's browser and closes all the current page and frameset contexts....
CurrentPage (Function)
Returns the name of the page containing the WLanguage code currently run.
PreviousPage (Function)
Returns the name of the previous page.