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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...
EmailNbMessage (Function)
Returns the number of incoming messages currently found: on the email server (POP3 protocol only). in the Outlook messaging software....
sfConnection (Type of variable)
The sfConnection type is used to describe a connection to the Salesforce platform and to manage user authentication...
grHMColor (Function)
Specifies the colors of different values in a Heatmap chart.
grScatterAddDataXY (Function)
Adds a data into a "Scatter" chart.
grLegend (Function)
Indicates the presence and position of legend in a chart.
grLabel (Function)
Indicates various parameters of additional legend in a chart.
grPiePullOut (Function)
Pulls out a section (or all sections) in a chart.
grColumnSpacing (Function)
Indicates the spacing between each data category in a column chart or in a Minimum/Maximum stock chart....
GetDefinition (Function)
Retrieves the definition of element type.
ParallelTaskExecute (Function)
Triggers the execution of a parallel task.
dRoundedRectangle (Function)
Draws a rounded rectangle: in an Image control, in an Image variable, in a WDPic variable (on the background layer), in a picLayer variable....
EmailDeleteMessage (Function)
Deletes the current email using the current protocol (POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes or Outlook).
ExecuteRefreshUIElement (Function)
Immediately executes the "Request for refreshing the display" event of the given element.
HTML document management functions
List of functions that manipulate HTML documents....
Changing an application to 64-bit
WINDEV allows you to develop 64-bit applications......
iNestedHeaderFooter (Function)
Prints (or not) the page headers and footers of nested report.
grGridlines (Function)
Displays or hides the chart gridlines.
grLineThickness (Function)
Retrieves and/or modifies the value of the line thickness in a line chart....
grParameter (Function)
Retrieves or modifies a chart parameter.
Cross-references in the code editor
The cross-references in the code editor are used to identify......
iInitReportQueryConnection (Function)
Initializes the query linked to the report.
AJAXExecute (Function)
Runs a server procedure without refreshing the page.
VideoStartApp (Function)
Starts the device's native camera application to record a video or to take a photo....
dPoint (Example)
Usage example of the dPoint function
The Radio Button control
The Radio Button control is a control allowing the user to select an option among several ones......