Tuto WINDEV 25

38 Part 1: Discovering WINDEV Remark An example for each type of control Two types of controls have been used in this lesson: an Edit control and a Button control. WINDEV proposes more than fifty controls. Several unit examples are available, allowing you to discover the use of each type of control. ▶ To open a unit example: 1. Display the WINDEV home page (press Ctrl + <). 2. Click "Open an example" if necessary. 3.  The list of complete examples, training examples and unit examples is displayed. 4.  In the "Unit examples" category, select the requested example ("The TreeView control" for example) and double-click its name: the corresponding window is automatically opened in the editor. Remark: To make things easy, all unit examples corresponding to controls start with the words "The control". These words can be typed in the search control of home page. ▶ Close the project: on the "Home" pane, in the "General" group, expand "Close" and select "Close the project". WINDEV: main concepts and terminology After these exercises, let’s talk about the main WINDEV concepts and about the terminology specific to WINDEV. Main concepts WINDEV allows you to easily create an application. But what is an Application ? An application is a tool used to automatically perform tasks, actions. An application includes an executable program (or a set of executable programs), libraries, data files, ... An executable program is a file made of elements that can be directly handled by the user (windows, printed reports, ...). It is started by the end user of an application. To create an executable, WINDEV proposes to create a project . A project links and organizes the different program elements. The executable program will be created from the project. If your application is using data, WINDEV allows you to define the database structure via the analysis . The WINDEV analysis contains the description of the data files (also known as "Tables" in several databases). These data files will contain the application data.