Code Editor – Simple example. Screenshot attached.

1) The thing I like about WinDev is the almost one to one conversion of code lines from VFP to WLanguage (the name of the language you program in WinDev). You can copy / paste your VFP code into WD and then edit the lines to replace with WD commands / function and syntax. But the logic stays essentially the same (unless you want to refactor).

2) In the screenshot you can see a small snippet of code and I have drawn connecting lines to show the VFP code and how it relates to the WD equivalent.

3) I have highlighted some aspects of the code editor.

4) All colouring and fonts can be changed to suit your preferences. These are the defaults.

5) Change a defined variable name in one place and WD will offer to make the change everywhere for you.

6) Intellisense confirms the command / function syntax in a popup.

7) WD confirms that functions you access have the correct number of parameters expected including for your own functions.

8) Clicking on any command keyword (e.g. “IF”, “THEN”, “END”, “WHILE”, etc. ) will highlight all the command keyword so you can easily see the block of code belonging in that section.

9) Clicking on a bracket will highlight it’s matching bracket.

10) in debugging mode you can just mouse point at a variable to get a popup of the variable value.

Apologies that my VFP code is all caps – it’s older code which we are upgrading.