WINDEV: Click to create, no coding


The 7 tabs: simply revolutionary

Do you know how to click? Then you know how to create objects! With WINDEV, the characteristics of each control can easily be defined through an exclusive interactive dialog, which is very simple and very powerful: the "7 tabs".
Each tab is used to define the different characteristics of a control, a window, a report, etc.


The 7-tab concept eliminates 95% of the code necessary for building a UI!

Thanks to the 7-tab technology, you can just click to define what would be hundreds of parameters in other environments.

Note:
the same way the 3 musketeers were actually 4, with time, the 7 tabs are now 8...

Here the first tab: "General".
The control's main information is entered here: type, input mask, and so on

(1) Label in all the languages supported by the project
(2) Control type
(3) Input/display mask
(4) Call the automatic translation tool


Here, the 2nd tab: "GUI".
The control's interface elements are defined. Remember that any choice can be modified later in your program.

(1) Control initial status
(2) Behavior of the TAB key
(3) Various information: alignment, popup
      menu to open, shortcut letter,...
(4) Support for planes and groups
      of controls
(5) Automatic anchoring during
      window resizing operations
      Etc.

Here the "Style" tab.
The control's presentation elements are defined.

(1) Font
(2) Size
(3) Shadow
(4) Color
(5) Real-time display



   MANAGER
      No knowledge of Windows or OOP is required
      to create extraordinarily original interfaces,
      efficient and secure

  NEW
      New interface even simpler
      Control persistence option

   AAF TECHNOLOGY
      Automatic input controls
      Area visualization
      Automatic help

   MAIN POINTS
      A few clicks replace thousands lines of code



The "7 tabs"

The tabs' contents vary, of course, depending on the control's type; here we are only detailing three of the tabs for a control.

The 7 tabs used to describe a control are:

• General look
• UI
• Details
• File links
• Contents
• Notes
• Associated help
• Style.

Source code can also be edited here. It is of course also possible to create and modify controls through the traditional method of using a "modifier" (also called "inspector" by some software vendors), and through coding in special cases.