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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...
<Word Processing>.Add (Function)
Adds at the end of a Word Processing control: an element, a document, a paragraph, a text, an image or a fragment.
TokenCurrentInput (Property)
The TokenCurrentInput property is used to read or change the value being entered in a "Text token" edit control.
RTFSelection (Function)
Modifies or lists attributes of text currently selected in an control RTF (from a window or report WINDEV).
<docElement variable>.ChangeZOrder (Function)
Changes the Z-order of an Image or Text Area element in a DocX document.
WDINT overview
Logical Data Model (LDM)
A Logical Data Model (LDM) is used to describe the data structures (files, items, ......
<Source>.Seek (Function)
Positions on the first record of the data file whose value for a specific item is greater than or equal to a sought value (generic search by default).
<Source>.ViewToFile (Function)
Saves the modifications performed in an HFSQL view (by HModify, HDelete or HCross) in the corresponding data file. This function uses the former view mechanism.
HViewToFile (Function)
Saves the modifications performed in an HFSQL view (by HModify, HDelete or HCross) in the corresponding data file. This function uses the former view mechanism.
Drag and Drop from the explorer
The Drag and Drop from the explorer consists in selecting one or more files in the Windows explorer and in transferring them into a control of a WINDEV window......
SQLTransaction (Function)
Begins, commits or rolls back a transaction: on the files of a database opened by SQLConnect, on the files of a database opened by a connection (OLE DB or Native Access/Native Connector) described in the data model editor or by HOpenConnection....
Error 2: Incomplete line
BurnerSave (Function)
Burns the files found in the compilation onto the CD or DVD.
Creating index keywords
Index keywords allow users to easily find a help page......
Edit options of a report
The report editor allows you to......
1. What is the WEBDEV administrator used for
Aligning elements in a List Box or Combo Box control
There are different methods to align the elements in a List Box or Combo Box control......
hFileParameter (Type of variable)
The hFileParameter type is used to define the data files taken into account by a scheduled optimization task.
Managing the HFSQL contexts in the windows and in the reports
An HFSQL context contains information relative to the data used......
12. Available tests
zipExtractFileList (Function)
Extracts and decompresses a list of files found in an archive to a physical location.
Creating an executable: Data file directory
Two types of directories can be configured when creating the executable......
<zipArchive variable>.AddDirectory (Function)
Adds all the files found in a directory and in its subdirectories into an archive and compresses them.
WLanguage procedure called by zipAddDirectory
WLanguage procedure ("Callback") called when adding files with zipAddDirectory.
OBEXListFile (Function)
Lists the files shared by a device that is using the OBEX protocol.