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Version: 2026

Sitemap file for Google
To better analyze the content of the sites, the search engine of Google uses an XML file named "Sitemap" (if it is available)...
FileToURI (Function)
Saves the contents of a file to a resource identified by its URI.
Database schema: Description of table structure
The database schema allows you to define the structure of tables used by the project...
Custom-Folders in the database schema
Several file descriptions can be grouped into a "Custom-Folder"...
Uploading files
Uploading consists in saving a file located on the user's computer to a web server...
How to loop through the files of a directory?
This help page presents the different methods that can be used to loop through the files of a directory.
Handling the external files
WINDEV, WINDEV Mobile and WEBDEV propose several functions allowing you to manage the external files from your WINDEV/WINDEV Mobile applications or from your WEBDEV websites...
ExeRun (Function)
Executes a program (an executable file, for example) from the current application.
MCIPause (Function)
Pauses playback of the media file previously opened (MCIOpen).
fListFile (Function)
Lists the files found in a directory and returns the list of files.
MCIStopPlaying (Function)
Stops the execution of a media file that was opened beforehand (MCIOpen).
HFilter (Function)
Defines and enables a filter on a data file, view or query.
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.
HSetIntegrity (Function)
Enables or disables the management of an integrity constraint on a file link.
FTPMakeDir (Function)
Creates a directory on an FTP server (File Transfer Protocol).
HPass (Function)
Defines the password used to create or open a data file.
HGetCurrentPosition (Function)
Returns the approximate position of current record in the data file.
HPrevious (Function)
Positions on the previous file record according to a browse item.
HRetrieveRecord (Function)
Returns the content of the current record (in a file, a view or a query, ...).
HChangeRplDir (Function)
Modifies the location for the description of subscriber replica (RPL file).
HDBCreation (Function)
Ends the description of the structure of an xBase data file through programming.
HDeactivateFilter (Function)
Temporarily disables the filter on a data file (view or query).
grSaveEMF (Function)
Saves a chart that was drawn beforehand in a file in EMF format.
grSaveBMP (Function)
Saves a chart that was previously drawn in a file in BMP format.
HRead (Function)
Reads a record in a file according to a given record number.
xlsNbColumn (Function)
Returns the number of columns found in a worksheet of an XLS file.
fAttributeReadOnly (Function)
Gets and sets the read-only attribute of a file.
xlsColumnType (Function)
Returns the type of data entered in a column of an XLS file.
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
<diagLibrary variable>.LoadLibrary (Function)
Loads a diagram file and creates a library of preset shapes from it.
DiagramLoadLibrary (Function)
Loads a diagram file and creates a library of preset shapes from it.