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Text (Property)
The Text property gets and sets text.
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Clipboard (Function)
Retrieves the text or image found in the system clipboard.
<Image>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in an Image control.
<Image>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image control.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type picLayer.
<Image>.TextHeight (Function)
Calculates text height in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
dTextHTML (Function)
Draws HTML text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable.
  • in a WDPic variable (on the background layer),
  • in a picLayer variable.
ClipboardRTF (Function)
Retrieves an RTF string from the clipboard (the content of the clipboard is in RTF).
<Image>.TextWidth (Function)
Calculates text width in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
<WDPic variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a WDPic variable.
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.
dTextHeight (Function)
Calculates text height in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
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dTextWidth (Function)
Calculates text width in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a picLayer variable.
<Image>AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image field.
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).
<Libellé>.AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for a Static Text control.
<Image variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image variable.
<Libellé>AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for animated text (in a Static Text control).
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
dTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text:
  • in an Image control,
  • in an Image variable.
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in a WDPic variable.
TextToHTML (Function)
Converts a text string into an HTML string (carriage returns are replaced by <BR>accents are replaced by their HTML equivalent, ...).
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type WDPic.
<Image variable>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws an RTF text in an Image variable.
<Image variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type Image.
HTMLToText (Function)
Converts an HTML string or buffer to text.
ClipboardUnicode (Function)
Returns the text found in the clipboard in Unicode format.
<Image>.AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for a moving image (in an Image field).
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fLoadText (Function)
Loads the contents of a text file into any text field or variable (string variable, window edit control, report label field, etc.).
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>.DrawTextRTF (Function)
Draws RTF text in an Image control.
AnimationGetParameter (Function)
Reads the value of one of the animation parameters defined for an Image or Static Text control.
<picLayer variable>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in a picLayer variable.
AutomaticTextColor (Property)
The AutomaticTextColor property gets and sets the color to be used for the text of the elements...
DocChangeZOrder (Function)
Changes the Z-order of an Image or Text Area element in a DocX document.
Items (Property)
The Items property is used to configure the different items of a full-text index.
GeometryDeserializeWKTGeo (Function)
Builds a geometry in geographic coordinates from a Well-Known Text (WKT) representation.
Token (Property)
The Token property is used to manage the different tokens associated with a "Text token" Edit...
URIToBuffer (Function)
Loads in the background the content of a resource (image, text, etc.) identified by its URI...
gFontBold (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether the text that follows the call...
Handling RTF in an Edit control
Rich Text Format (RTF) is used to encode text and simplify exchange between applications......
Handling a Static control programmatically
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to handle a Static control programmatically......
Using WDMSG
The different steps for translating the project messages with WDMSG are as follows:...
Types of Edit controls
gFontItalic (Function)
Builds a sequence of characters used to specify whether or not the text that follows the call...
FullTextIndex description (Type of variable)
A FullTextIndex description variable is used to describe one or more full-text indexes...
ManageHTML (Property)
ManageHTML is used to configure the management mode of the HTML format in a full-text index.
ManageRTF (Property)
ManageRTF is used to configure the management mode of the RTF format in a full-text index.
TextWithoutFormat (Property)
The TextWithoutFormat property is used to get the text contained in a rich edit control without...
StopWord (Property)
The StopWord property is used to define stopwords in a full-text index defined through programming.
Synonym (Property)
The Synonym property is used to define synonyms in a programmatically defined full-text index.
Watermark (Type of variable)
The Watermark type is used to handle the text printed in watermark in the reports created...
DeleteButton (Property)
... in a Text Edit control, and to change its position.
HFTListWord (Function)
Lists the words of the current record that will be taken into account by the full-text indexing.
<Source>.FTListWord (Function)
Lists the words of the current record that will be taken into account by the full-text indexing.
ToolTip (Property)
The ToolTip property is used to get and change the text displayed in the tooltip associated...
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