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Version: 2025

Report based on a text file
In a report based on a text file, the information to print is read from a text file or is directly assigned in the report controls...
Translating a text file with WDTRAD
fListResource (Function)
Lists the resources integrated to the application.
HImportText (Function)
Imports a Text file into an HFSQL Classic or Client/Server data file. This data file must have been defined in the data model editor, or declared with HDeclare, HDeclareExternal or HDescribeFile).
<Source>.ImportText (Function)
Imports a Text file into an HFSQL Classic or Client/Server data file. This data file must have been defined in the data model editor, or declared with HDeclare, HDeclareExternal or HDescribeFile).
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 sites...
fBuildRelativePath (Function)
Returns the path to a file relative to a reference directory.
fInsertTextAtBeginning (Function)
Inserts text at the beginning of a file without overwriting the existing text.
fAddBuffer (Function)
Adds the content of a buffer at the end of a file.
fFind (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
<DiskFile variable>.Write (Function)
Writes:
  • a character string to an external file.
  • a memory section.
fLoadText (Function)
Loads the contents of a text file into any text field or variable (string variable, window edit control, report label field, etc.).
How to read in a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to read the content of a text or CSV file.
Print modes of a report
Several print modes are available for a report.
fAddText (Function)
Adds the content of a character string at the end of a file.
fWatchDirectory (Function)
Detects changes made to the contents of a directory.
fSaveText (Function)
Creates and fills a text file with the content of a text control or text variable (string variable, edit control in a window, Static Text control in a report, ...).
fWrite (Function)
Writes:
  • a character string to an external file.
  • a memory section.
fExtractResource (Function)
Extracts a resource from the application into a physical device location.
How to write into a text or CSV file?
This help page explains how to write into a text or CSV file.
fIsImage (Function)
Determines whether a file on disk or in a buffer corresponds to an image format recognized by WINDEV or WEBDEV.
fLoadBuffer (Function)
Loads the content of an external file (text, image, ...) in a buffer variable.
<DiskFile variable>.Find (Function)
Finds a character string or a buffer in a file opened by fOpen.
fWatchFile (Function)
Starts watching a file.
fSaveBuffer (Function)
Creates and fills a text file with the content of a string or buffer variable.
Result of a query in test mode
After its execution in test mode (see Running the query test), the result of the query can be...
ImageInfoValue (Function)
Returns the value of an Exif tag for the image used.
Discover all the possibilities of pivot tables
MinimumLength (Property)
The Property MinimumLength allows you to know and modify the minimum length of an element.
Executable: Project backup
At the end of the executable creation wizard, WINDEV proposes to automatically make a backup of the sources of your project......
KanbanDisplay (Function)
Refreshes a Kanban control or a card in the Kanban control.
StringDisplay (Function)
Returns a specific string (or a buffer) to the client browser in response to a request.
RibbonHighlightPane (Function)
Highlights a tab in a Ribbon control.
RGBGreen (Function)
Returns the green component of an RGB color.
RGBRed (Function)
Returns the red component of an RGB color.
RGBBlue (Function)
Returns the blue component of an RGB color.
Column of type Attribute
WINDEV and WEBDEV allow you to use columns of type "Attribute" in Table controls......
MemSeek (Function)
Seeks an element in a memory area: on the value added by MemAdd or on the value modified by MemModify, on the return value....
Sending faxes with WINDEV and WEBDEV
To send faxes from an application or from a site, WINDEV and WEBDEV propose several functions allowing you to send faxes via the system fax server available in Windows XP and Windows 2000......
WBSetup: Managing additional languages
The "WBSetup" project corresponds to the standard setup program of WEBDEV sites......
diffCreate (Function)
Compares two buffers and creates a buffer containing the differences between these two buffers.
TableSavePositionAndSelection (Function)
Saves: the scrollbar position in a Table or TreeView Table control, the elements selected in the control....
HCreateView (Example)
Usage example of the HCreateView function
Duplicating a project
Duplicating a project allows you to have two identical projects with the same name but found in different directories......
Automatic management of exceptions
The management of exceptions can be customized by process......
SpreadsheetAllowProcedure (Function)
Allows the use of a WLanguage function/procedure in a formula of a Spreadsheet control....
Setting up a WEBDEV cluster
With the WEBDEV Application Server in version 27, you can create server clusters with ease......
Code indentation
When typing compound statements ("Switch", "For" and "While", for example), the code is automatically indented to highlight the structure of the loops used in the program......
Handling an Image Editor control through programming
WINDEV allows you to handle an Image Editor control through programming......
Different types of pages
WEBDEV enables you to create static sites and/or dynamic sites......
Multi-page print
A report can be very wide, with a width exceeding the width of a paper sheet......