Creating Windows (Forms)

Creating a form or a window in WinDev is quite straight forward and similar to VFP. You give it a name and then add controls to the window. WinDev provides many wizards to help you create controls easily. These include binding control values to variables, cursors, queries, tables, or other relevant data sources. The interface to window creation is very slick and it has many advanced controls not found in VFP such as:

Carousels
Ribbons
Progress bars using sliders, dials, and other variations
Calanders
Sidebars (like Outlook)
Rotating cube controls
Multi-column treeviews
Loopers (like super-grids with each cell containing multiple elements/controls)
Organization Charts
Camera controls
Charts
…and much more.

You can even add 3rd party OLE controls plus .Net controls that you might have. (Speaking of .Net – you can include .Net assemblies in a WinDev project as well as generate .Net assemblies from a WinDev project – more on that in another post). Back to creating windows …

When you create a new window and double-click the background (or press F2) you get the screenshots attached and here you can start seeing the power of the interface where you can customize everything about the window. Things like transparency, move by dragging the background, fade in/out, grey-out when the window moves behind another, animations, etc. are all features which you can click on/off as required.

I won't go into every option but if you have a question on a specific aspect then I will try and answer you.

In another post I will describe a bit more about controls and their styling / interfaces, etc.