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 WINDEV, WEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2026
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
Text (Property)
The Text property gets and sets text.
<picLayer variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type picLayer.
Clipboard (Function)
Retrieves the text or image found in the system clipboard.
<Image>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in an Image control.
ClipboardUnicode (Function)
Returns the text found in the clipboard in Unicode format.
<Image>.DrawText (Function)
Draws a text in an Image control.
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.
<Image>.TextHeight (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.
Using Unicode in HFSQL tables
The database schema proposes two types of Unicode items ...
dTextHeight (Function)
Calculates text height 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.
dTextWidth (Function)
Calculates text width in pixels.
This function is only available in subscription-based versions, starting with WINDEV Suite 2025 - Update 2.
TextToHTML (Function)
Converts a text string into an HTML string (carriage returns are replaced by <BR>accents are replaced by their HTML equivalent, ...).
<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.
<WDPic variable>.DrawTextMarkdown (Function)
Draws Markdown text in a variable of type WDPic.
<Image>.AnimationSetParameter (Function)
Changes one of the animation parameters used for a moving image (in an Image field).
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The different types of items proposed in the data model editor are as follows:
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.
Report viewer: Copying text
The report viewer allows you to copy text from the report and paste it to a file in another...
Search and full-text index
HFSQL proposes a quick search for character strings in the data......
Format of the content in the text file
The text files created by WDMSG use a specific format......
Text editing (Code editor)
When developing a new feature, it may be useful to keep the same environment for opening text...
Static Text control properties
List of properties associated with a Static Text control...
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
User Groupware functions...
OCR: Turn images into text
An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system analyzes an image to extract the text it contains......
Handling HTML text in an Edit control
...WEBDEV allows you to handle text in HTML via the "HTML format" option of the Edit controls...
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......
Rich Text Area control events
The following events appear by default in the WEBDEV code editor......
Rich text, links and images in the WEBDEV controls
Rich text supports multiple advanced features: font, weight, size, color, attribute, ......
Importing classes and sets of procedures (text file)
From version 23, you have the ability to import existing classes or sets of procedures in text...
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...
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