• Creating a control:
  • Standard creation
  • Other creation modes
• Binding a control to a data file item
• Selecting one or more controls
• Grouping controls
• Deleting one or more controls
• Copying one or more controls
• Copying the control style
• Moving controls (or locking them)
• Resizing controls
• Aligning controls
• Use a control outside the window

Creating a control in a window

1. Go to the "Creation" tab in the window editor. This tab contains all the types of controls that can be created in a window.
   
   Depending on the type of control to create:
   • click its icon.
   • if an arrow is displayed beside the control name, expand the list and select the type of control to create.
2. Click at the desired location to create the control.

1. Select the Table control.
2. Right-click to open the context menu:
   • select "Add a column".
   • select the type of column to create.

Creating a control from a dictionary control

1. Display the "Dictionary" pane.
2. Open the dictionary if necessary ("Open" in the context menu).
3. Select the initial control found in the dictionary (in the "Window controls" category).
4. Perform a Drag and Drop of the control found in the dictionary toward its future position in the window.
5. Subscribe the created control to the dictionary if necessary. If the created control subscribes to the dictionary, the modifications made to the control found in the dictionary will be automatically applied to the created control. For more details, see Subscribing an element to the dictionary.

Creating a control from the clipboard content

1. Copy the item to the clipboard: under the "Inicio" pane, in the "Edición" group, click on "Copiar" (or Ctrl + C).
2. In the window editor, on the "Inicio" tab, in the "Edición" group, click "Pegar" (or Ctrl + V).

Creating an Image control from an image file by Drag and Drop

1. Select the desired image file in Windows Explorer.
2. Hold the left mouse button down and move the image file to a window opened in the WINDEV editor.
3. Release the mouse button. An Image control associated with the image file is automatically created.

1. Select the desired control.
2. Right-click and select "Description" in the context menu, then go to the "Binding" tab in the control description window.
3. Enter the information about the bound item.

• an edit control from a data file item:
  1. In the "Analysis" pane, select the item that will be bound to the control to be created.
  2. Drag and drop the item onto the position where you want to create the bound Edit control.
• a Table control from a data file:
  1. In the "Analysis" pane, select the data file that will be related to the Table control to be created.
  2. Drag and drop the item onto the position where you want to create the bound Table control. The Table control creation wizard starts automatically.

Selecting one or more controls in a window

• A click performed on a grouped control selects all grouped controls.
• Two successive clicks performed on a grouped control selects this control only.

Grouping controls in a window:

• the control gouping to manipulate several controls in the window editor.
• the groups of controls to manipulate several controls programmatically.

1. Select the controls to group (see Selecting one or more controls).
2. On the "Modificación" tab, in the "Profundidad y alineación" group, click "Agrupar selección" (Ctrl + G).

1. Select a control that belongs to the group. WINDEV automatically selects all grouped controls.
2. On the "Modificación" tab, in the "Profundidad y alineación" group, expand "Agrupar selección" and select "Dissociate selection" (Ctrl + Shift + G).

Deleting one or more controls from a window

1. Select the controls to delete (see Selecting one or more controls).
2. Press the Del key.

Overview

Copying a control in the same window

• 1st method:
  • Select the control to copy.
  • On the "Inicio" tab, in the "Edición" group, click "Copiar".
    Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C.
  • On the "Inicio" tab, in the "Edición" group, click "Pegar".
    Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + V.
  • Position the control with the mouse (the control outline appears in dotted lines and it helps you position the new control).

• 2nd method:
  • Select the control to copy.
  • Right-click the control to copy and hold the mouse button down.
  • Move the control with the mouse (the control outline appears in dotted lines and it helps you position the control to paste).
  • Release the mouse button.
  • Select "Copy here".
  • A new name is automatically assigned to the copied control. This name can be modified in the description of copied control ("Description" in the context menu of the control).

Copying a window control to another window

• 1st method:
  • In the first window, select the control to copy.
  • On the "Inicio" tab, in the "Edición" group, click "Copiar".
    Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C.
  • Display the destination window in the window editor.
  • On the "Inicio" tab, in the "Edición" group, click "Pegar".
    Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + V.
  • Position the control with the mouse (the control outline appears in dotted lines and it helps you position the new control).

• 2nd method: (both windows must be displayed under the editor)
  • In the first window, select the control to copy.
  • Hold the left mouse button down and drag the control to the destination window.
  • Release the mouse button once the control is positioned in the target window (the dotted border of the control enables you to quickly position the pasted control).

Copying the control style

Moving one or more window controls

1. Select the controls to move.
2. Keep the left mouse button down and move the controls with the mouse. The real-time interface checker enables you to align the controls (see the paragraph below).

Moving a column of a Table control in the editor

• 1st method:
  • Open the window that contains the Table control.
  • Select the Table control and click the header of the column to move.
  • Select "Move left" or "Move right" in the context menu.
• 2nd method:
  • Open the Table control description window.
  • Select the column to move.
  • Use the arrows on the right of the Table control name to move the column.
  • Validate the description window.

Locking controls

1. Select the control.
2. Use one of the following methods:
   • on the "Modificación" tab, in the "Ayuda edición" group, check "Bloqueado".
   • press Alt + V.

Aligning the window controls

• Alignment options
• Real-time interface checker (automatic positioning)
• Advanced interface checker
• Rulers and markers
• Snap to grid
• Zoom

Resizing window controls

• the mouse (via the sizing handles of the control)
  Note: In this case, resizing the field and its contents is entirely WYSIWYG..
• the following keyboard shortcuts on the selected control:
  • Alt right arrow: Enlarge the field from the right.
  • Alt left arrow: Enlarge the field from the left.
  • Alt up arrow: Enlarge the field from above.
  • Alt down arrow: Enlarge the field from below.

Use a control outside the window

In most cases, the controls belong to a window. Therefore, these controls appear in edit and at runtime. However, it is possible to position a field in the home window of a window: the field is then "out of window".. This control will be visible in edit mode and invisible at runtime.

You can use a control outside the window to:

• Keep a control in a window without displaying it at runtime. This allows you to use the content of the control programmatically (like a variable).
• Display new controls in a window when resizing it.

Resizing the window

• In the editor, the "login" window is as follows:
  

  The Details button is used to enlarge the window height.
• At runtime, once the "Details" button was clicked, the "login" window is as follows:
  

  The off-window controls are automatically displayed.

Creating an "off-window" control

1. Go to the "Creation" tab in the window editor. This tab contains all the types of controls that can be created in a window. Depending on the type of control to create:
   • click its icon.
   • if an arrow is displayed beside the control name, expand the list and select the type of control to create.
2. In the home window, click the location where the control must be created.