Tuto WINDEV 25

Part 4: Full application with data 271 ▶ Run the window test: click among the quick access buttons. In the edit control, type "Paris" (while respecting the case) and click the "Search" button. The list of customers is displayed. ▶ That’s it! Child’s play isn’t it? You know how to create a component and how to re-use it in your applications. You also have the ability to manage the setup procedures of your components, in order to distribute them separately from your applications for example. Distributing an external component Two methods can be used to distribute a component: 1. Provide the necessary files "manually", this is a "standard" distribution. 2. Create a more "professional" distribution, via the setup editor of WINDEV (WDInst). Standard distribution In this case, you must supply all the files required for your component to operate. These files are created when generating the component (WDI, WDK and WDO files, images, other documents, ...). These files will be manually copied from their source directory to the destination directory. The WINDEV projects that use this component will find the dependent files in this destination directory. List of files that must be supplied for a standard distribution: • the files automatically generated by WINDEV (WDK, WDI, ...). • the dependency files. • the WDO file must be supplied if the component is using dependency files. This file contains the references to the external files used in the component.