Category: WINDEV

Creating a RESTful API to accept a Multipart Form Post

Today, we encountered an unusual requirement. Someone needed to send a file via API using Multipart Form Data, rather than Base64 encoding the file and submitting it as JSON data. I have experience sending files using Multipart Form Data, both via the HTTPSendForm function and by manually encoding the data using our wxHTTP class. I've … Continue reading Creating a RESTful API to accept a Multipart Form Post →

Assisted Input + wxFileManager = The predictive input you have been looking for?

Predictive Input, Type Ahead Lookup, or whatever you want to call it, it is one of the holy grails of a good User experience. Over the years I have used several approaches to achieve it. Today we will look at using the Assisted Input functions of WL along with the wxFileManager. BTW, There is also … Continue reading Assisted Input + wxFileManager = The predictive input you have been looking for? →

HTML Display Control Drag and Drop

We are using the HTML display control to display images and/or PDFs stored on Amazon S3 in a project and ran into a couple of issues when we tried to implement drag and drop. Continue on for more details and my solution As I said we are storing files on Amazon S3 for this project, … Continue reading HTML Display Control Drag and Drop →

Screen Scaling and WINDEV

You don't often get WINDEV tips from Uncle Pete as I spend the majority of my time in WEBDEV, but here's a quick one for you. We use to have a lot of display issues when someone had their screen scaling set to something other than 100%. In old versions of Windows this was referred … Continue reading Screen Scaling and WINDEV →

Export to PDF from Print Preview Reruns Report

Another one from my stash of Blog post I need to make, resurfaced today, so it seemed like a good time to Get-R-Done. If you take a look at the online help for the iPreview function you will find this little tidbit at the bottom of the page So what exactly does that mean? Well … Continue reading Export to PDF from Print Preview Reruns Report →

V24 Project Development Soup to nuts – Step 1

Andy is doing a training series showing the development of a v24 project from start to finish. The first video is now available on our YouTube channel and our Facebook group, as well as being embedded here. The best place to follow this project is on our Facebook group as that is where any questions … Continue reading V24 Project Development Soup to nuts – Step 1 →

Training WinDev Express and IDE overview

We have released a video that explores WinDev from PCSoft using the free express version. This video provides highlights of the IDE as well as creating a quick sample application. This video was previously only available on our learnworlds site. We have posted a video to both our YouTube channel, and our Facebook Group learning … Continue reading Training WinDev Express and IDE overview →

WinDev v24 first look

Andy went live this morning on our new Facebook group and demonstrated a few of the new features in WinDev v24. Take a look at it here If you haven't joined the Facebook group yet be sure to go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/windev.us/ and join. With Google+ shutting down, this Facebook group will be our new home for … Continue reading WinDev v24 first look →

v23 Pre-Release initial testing

Just a quick note about moving apps to v23 for everyone. I have move 2 of our WD projects to the v23 pre-release without issue, one was a small project, but the other one is a very large system, with 264 windows. 3 databases (including both HFSQL and PostgreSQL) and 7 configurations (Windows exe, windows … Continue reading v23 Pre-Release initial testing →

Dynamic Tabs

Dynamic Tabs was one of the great new features added to WinDev version 20. However based on some comments we had in a recent webinar, there are still quite a few folks out there that don’t know exactly what they are or how to use them. So this week I will be doing a primer … Continue reading Dynamic Tabs →