ONLINE HELP
 WINDEVWEBDEV AND WINDEV MOBILE

Version: 2026

Items used in a select query
A query created in the query editor can contain several types of items......
Managing the Unicode format in the HFSQL files
The analysis proposes two types of Unicode items......
IntToHexa (Function)
Returns the hexadecimal string of a numeric value.
HexaToInt (Function)
Returns the numeric value of a hexadecimal string.
<String type>.Increment (Function)
Increments a number at the beginning or at the end of a string.
NumToString (Function)
Converts a numeric value (integer, real or currency) to a string according to a specified format.
LengthToString (Function)
Converts a size in bytes to a string with human-readable units such as kilobytes, megabytes or terabytes.
ocrTextBlock (Type of variable)
The ocrTextBlock type is used to define and identify all the advanced characteristics of a text block read by the native OCR system.
HTMLToText (Function)
Converts an HTML string or buffer to text.
StringIncrement (Function)
Increments a number at the beginning or at the end of a string.
Class inheritance
The hierarchical organization in class and sub-class has allowed to create the notion of inheritance......
Opening a help file (CHM, HTML or PDF)
There are several ways to open a help file......
Creating a help file
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to create a help file and associate it with an application or website......
Position (Function)
Finds the position of a specified string within another string.
OCRAddLanguage (Function)
Adds a language to the native OCR system.
TypeVar (Function)
Identifies the type of an expression, a variable (during a call to a procedure for example) or a control.
Specific features of Android applications
The development of Android and WINDEV Mobile applications is different in the following fields......
Activation key management functions
The following functions are used to manage activation keys:...
StringToUTF8 (Function)
Converts an ANSI or UNICODE string to UTF-8.
Activating an application or a site
When distributing an application or a site, you may want to offer both a full version and a limited version......
Creating the summary
Users are familiar with summaries, as the summary is the first element they look at in printed documentation......
<DiskFile variable>.Read (Function)
Reads: a block of bytes (characters) in an external file (ANSI or Unicode), the content of an external file (ANSI or Unicode) and assigns it to a memory area....
Camera control: decoding the bar codes (prefix syntax)
In iOS and Android, the bar codes can be decoded via the Camera control by BCCapture......
PicRectangularSnipOCR (Function)
Runs OCR and extracts the text from a rectangular area defined with the mouse.
fRead (Function)
Reads: a block of bytes (characters) in an external file (ANSI or Unicode), the content of an external file (ANSI or Unicode) and assigns it to a memory area....