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Procedure Description (Variable type)
The Procedure Description type allows you to get information about a procedure or a method.
Local procedure
Two types of procedures are available...
Internal procedure
Several features require a procedure called once or several times via a WLanguage function ("Callback").
Procedure (Variable type)
The Procedure type is used to handle through programming:
  • the procedures or methods found in the project.
  • the procedures or methods found in an internal component.
  • the procedures or methods found in an external component.
Useful parameters of a procedure
A procedure can declare some parameters that are not immediately used. In this case, a warning appears in the code editor, indicating that the local variable is not used.
Declaring a procedure/a function
The different syntaxes for declaring a procedure...
Calling a procedure/a function
Syntax for calling a local or global procedure.
Parameters of a procedure with a variable number of parameters
When the procedure uses a variable number of parameters, you must be able to handle the different parameters passed to the function in the code of the procedure.
Global procedure/function
A global procedure can be used in all the processes or events of the project.
Parameters of a procedure/function
You have the ability to pass parameters to a procedure.
Procedure/Function
A procedure is used to associate an identifier with a statement block...
Passing parameters
The parameters can be passed to a procedure...
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit the current event, process or procedure and return a result...
Prototype overload/Overload
The procedures and the methods of classes can have several syntaxes.
ExecuteMainThreadAsynchronous (Function)
Executes a procedure in the main thread of the application without waiting for the end of its execution.
WEBDEV: Scheduled tasks and delayed tasks
WEBDEV allows you to implement tasks on the server directly...
SeekProcedure (Function)
Seeks a procedure identified by its name. The procedure found can be run directly.
ExecuteMainThread (Function)
Triggers the execution of the procedure specified in the main application thread.
RETURN statement
The RETURN statement is used to exit a statement block and the current process (or procedure).
MyParameters (Reserved word)
The MyParameters keyword is used to handle the parameters passed to a WLanguage procedure...
Optional parameters
Some of the parameters passed to a procedure can be optional parameters...
Automatic documentation of procedures and methods
To simplify the maintenance or the use of existing code by other developers, WINDEV proposes an automatic documentation for the procedures (or class methods)...
Typecasting of parameters
The description of the parameter type is optional...
Set of procedures
The global procedures are grouped in set of procedures...
Automatic procedures
The programming of timers, threads and delayed procedures is now automatically managed by the environment...
Reactive procedures
Reactive procedures are executed when the value of a control or variable changes...
HFreeQuery (Function)
Free the resources of a query (after the call to HExecuteQuery or HExecuteSQLQuery).
Detection (Property)
The Detection property is used to determine and change the automatic detection of incoming streams....
Errors while managing data files
When an HFSQL function fails (returns False for example), the corresponding error number...
sysNotification (Type of variable)
The sysNotification type is used to define all the advanced characteristics of an interactive...
External language: Programming in C
We are going to call the elements developed in WINDEV (project, windows, ......
Events associated with TreeView controls
List of events associated with TreeView controls...
dbgCheckNull (Function)
Checks whether an expression is Null in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
dbgCheckNotNull (Function)
Checks whether an expression is not Null in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
HTTPProgressBar (Function)
Displays a progress bar when: receiving the response to an HTTP request. sending an HTTP form...
TableCollapseExpand (Function)
Collapses or expands an element in a Table or TreeView Table control.
dbgCheckTrue (Function)
Checks whether an expression is set to True in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
TabOpen (Function)
Opens a new pane in a Dynamic Tab control.
Tips for an application that uses the User Groupware
To simplify the configuration of user groupware according to the users, the controls...
inAppPurchaseProduct (Function)
Sends a request for purchasing an "In-App" product associated with the application.
NFCStatus (Function)
Returns the activation status of the NFC sensor found on the device.
dbgCheckFalse (Function)
Checks whether an expression is false in assertive programming and in automated test mode.
URISelect (Function)
Opens a system window to select a resource from: from the device file system, from the Cloud...
HErrorStatusModification (Function)
Returns the status of a record during a modification conflict.
Handling a TreeView control through programming
WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to handle a TreeView control programmatically......
Uploading and downloading files on Internet (WINDEV FTP and RPC)
Several methods can be used to upload and download files by Internet......
HListTrigger (Function)
Returns the list of triggers applied to one or more HFSQL data files.
Handling a Progress Bar control through programming
A Progress Bar control can be handled through programming......
Displaying an Active WEBDEV Page
An Active WEBDEV Page can be displayed......
Designing a supercontrol
A supercontrol is an advanced type of control......
TableExpand (Function)
Expands: a branch that was previously collapsed in a TreeView Table control. a branch...