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WX Dongle Protection (no replies)

JP — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:02:29 +0200

Here is my advice to all non-subscription/SAAS dongle holders:

1) Make sure the WX Automatic Update program no longer runs or starts with Windows.

2) Install a firewall software and set it to “Always Ask to Connect” mode i.e. all apps that want internet access must ask for permission and you have to agree or not to the connection.

2.a. Refuse all connections initiated by any WX application.

2.b. The only exception is in test mode when your app needs internet access – you will have no choice but to allow the testing environment to access the internet.

2.c. Do not allow any upgrades to WX or dongles.

3) Make sure you have all the original installation setup programs for all WX versions that you need.

4) In every project you have, set the save format to text: Project Description -> Options -> Save Format -> Text

This saves all project elements in text format and allows you to access the source codes in those files in plain text mode.

5) For every project you have create a total project documentation PDF file: General Section on ribbon -> Print -> Set to Complete -> Create the print preview -> Save the PDF file

5.a. This can take a long time and contain thousands of pages, but …

5.b. … It contains all your code, screen layouts, etc. and in full-color formatted layouts

5.c. … contains detailed settings of all window/page controls etc.

6) Protect your dongles:

6.a. Buy a USB hub and put your dongles in the hub. E.g. [www.amazon.de]

6.b. Put (glue or tape) the hub inside a small plastic box. E.g. [www.amazon.de]

6.c. The USB hub cable must extend out of the box (obviously). Cut a hole for that.

6.d. The above protects the dongles from external damage/spillage/knocks/wear & tear from handling etc.

6.e. The above also stops you pulling-out and plugging-in the dongles which can damage the USB connectors – the most common cause of dongle damage/failure

6.f. Only plug the USB hub into your computer when needed, otherwise keep the box with dongles in a safe place. Now only the USB hub connector can be damaged (and replaced).

6.g. Sentinel dongles can last a long time if protected, 10+ years or even longer. Biggest problem is handling so the above protects them from that.

It's over, move along, nothing to see here. (no replies)

Al — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:48:41 +0200

Hello,

Last drinks have been called, the Windev party is over for small developers.

PCSoft has moved on and will devolve into a French only company serving what ever market can put up with their pricing and irrational behaviour.

If you have a working dongle then, depending on your circumstances, just continue on while you can because there is nothing out there to match it.

It was truly outstanding software from a company never grasped the nettle.

Thank you to Guenter Predl for his outstanding effort and financial commitment to this forum.
It is not only a critical technical reference resource but also a comforting presence due to the help and camaraderie of the members. Thank you to all of you.

Regards
Al

Possible alternative to WX (2 replies)

dmontaine — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:12:20 +0200

I know people are looking at alternatives. One might be Lianja Studo (lianja.com). It allows development of Apps for PCs, Macs, Linux, cloud (browser, android, ios). You can also develop on PC, Mac or Linux. The developers studio is currently $497 for the first year (half price right now) and $695 each year thereafter. It is a subscription, but if you leave, you still can continue to develop at the level it was when you left. The Lianja studio includes a developers version of the database and the web server. Desktop apps can be distributed without the user needing a subscription.

The cloud server is $995 the first year and $695 thereafter for up to 250 sessions. $300 per year more if you want unlimited sessions. This is what your customers would need to pay. However, the server will continue running if you stop the subscription. You will just not have access to server upgrades or support.

Webdev V25 Is there an initialization order for fields on a page like in Windev (no replies)

Al — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:29:32 +0200

Hello,

In Windev you can use the "Edit Initialization Order" in the Window pane to set the order that the init code of the fields in a window is run.
I can't find that same option in Webdev.
Does it Exist ?

Regards
Al

New video about changes (no replies)

dmontaine — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:23:52 +0200

The US distributor has dropped a new video about the problems their clients are having with WX suscriptions, when changes are going to be announced by PCSoft and their plans to help people move away from the WX platform if necessary. The youtube link for the video is below.

[youtu.be]

Opinions on AI in WinDev (3 replies)

Jeff Graham — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:26:21 +0200

After almost finishing a new update to my client's long time project using 2026 version, I am frustrated with the "AI" suggestions. Particularly if you use the Tab key as you try to add comments at the end of a line. If a suggestion is not noticed, you get extra code that you have to ctrl-Z out of.

So, I have found it 5% useful and 95% an interruption and a waste of time. I would like suggestions on how to turn it off and on again if desired.

I am interested in using AI and I have gotten good suggestions from Chat GPT for my next WD+WM+WM planned new project for the volunteers at the aero museum here. I have not seen a way to ask the same questions directly in WinDev. Has anyone used it to begin a new project?

Your experiences and comments would be appreciated.

Cannot get the automatic zoom (pinch-to-zoom) for Image or PDF controls under WM (no replies)

peterzhou — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:09:17 +0200

Hi,

Cannot get the automatic zoom (pinch-to-zoom) for Image or PDF controls under Windev Mobile to work.
i have enabled the "Automatic scroll and zoom" and with 2 x or 3 x, doesn't work.

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

What is going on? (9 replies)

dmontaine — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:48:49 +0200

It has now been 3 weeks since PCSoft announced that they were reinventing. So far marketing just consists of a rather strange video, no "Grand Angle" videos since May 5th, and a sales pitch that says write us if you are interested. (Btw, I did send a request for information two weeks ago and have gotten no response).

I have never seen a company go silent like this, except when they were being sold or going out of business. Did they mess up the transition to subscriptions so badly that they are having to retool suddenly without a good transition plan in place? And why would you cut off sales before you have a new plan in place? If anyone has had any communication from PCSoft, I'm sure many of us would like to know.

Companies die when transitions are mishandled.

A poem for times of silence (2 replies)

dmontaine — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:12:53 +0200

Hello Windev, my old friend
I’ve come to work with you again
But your owners are not speaking
About the changes they are seeking
Questions running through my brain
I can’t refrain,
I’m troubled by the sounds of silence.

Hello Windev, are you there
One great Suite for us to share
But no details are forthcoming
But they say we’ll find it stunning
Software tailored to our needs
I hope this leads
To changes in the sounds of silence

Glossy ladies all will leave
Professional, we’ll achieve
Marching onward, we’ll all thrive
Subscriptions active, we’ll arrive
In a world without the sounds of silence

Windev Saas 2026 - Poor quality? (no replies)

KG — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:58:01 +0200

Is anyone else experiencing serious stability issues with WinDev 2026 SaaS (now Update 3 / April update)?

My experience over the last months has been worrying enough that I now fully rely on Git and regular reclones.

Issues observed:

-clipboard functionality in the IDE breaking down (“Cannot open clipboard”)
-statistics counters suddenly becoming nonsensical (jumping from 2.5K to 5.2K LoC)
-progressive freezes and IDE instability (sudden crashes)
-“Wait Chain” situations where WinDev appeared to be waiting on threads that no longer existed
-IDE degradation over time until reinstall becomes necessary (less than 2 weeks of daily use since the update)

Today, after changing the length of a few HFSQL C/S fields and synchronising/regenerating, WinDev modified class code outside generated mapping areas:

-class member definitions removed
-constructors removed
-typed enums rewritten to generic Enumeration
-procedure signatures broken leading to hundreds of compile errors generated instantly

I had previously experienced similar issues when trying the AI Companion for code generation/refactoring. It got lost in the editor and damaged the project as described above. This was duly reported with dumps and details.

I stopped pursuing the issue through support because it was too time-consuming, I had to repeatedly send the same dumps, I realised things were rather chaotic internally and people were very reluctant to communicate openly

At this point I am about to reinstall once again.

It would be useful to know whether others are experiencing similar instability/corruption with WinDev Suite 2026 (and the recent updates).

Bearing in mind their recent vid on Youtube(*) the road ahead seems long and challenging with such immature processes (no bug database,... ).

(*) on how marketing drove their releases before... However from now on they were committed to quality

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2026-05-16: Just experienced the most bizarre thing. I used aute-reindent on the whole code of a class and the IDE crashed and shutdown immediately. Upon re-opening, code had been removed, ghost code appeared, the whole project was corrupted. Bear in mind I reInstalled as cleanly as is possible the whole suite only a few days ago. This operation of re-indenting is something I had done before without issues.

A pattern seems to emerge that automated changes in the editor are not mastered/stable. When AI did it, it went wrong, with their new companion AI, with that bizarre code predictor using an internal model (all turned off now). And now a simple re-indent breaks everything.

Are there other experiences like this? How do you deal with it?

To be clear I've been using the tool since WD2024 Saas and have invested a lot of effort and time in it since version 2025. Major stability issues have been there all along. Also, no other IDE (VS Code, VS studio nor Xojo) ever crash on my PC. I've experienced issues with corrupting projects and ghost code on 2 different computers.

“SaaSpocalypse” Erased $285 Billion (3 replies)

gpredl — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:17:04 +0200

Is it true?

how to require entry field with yellow background under WINDEV (2 replies)

PETER ZHOU — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:35:54 +0200

Hi,

How to make 'require' entry field with yellow background under WINDEV (for end-user to know it's required) ?
Cannot recall where i have seen this feature mentioned

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

how to make colour blink in windev (8 replies)

PETER ZHOU — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:27:40 +0200

Hi,

How to make colour blink in windev (font text or background colour) ?

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

Windev Preview (4 replies)

IsmirB — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:52:49 +0200

Hello everyone.
Have you, since version 2024-2026, had certain problems with the application "freezing", especially on the report preview.
The program seems to go into the background (gray out) and tries to recover but without results.
The only solution is to close the entire application or even sometimes it crashes itself.?

Any idea is welcome.

PC Soft is reinventing itself (9 replies)

dmontaine — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:29:55 +0200

1) at this point you can't buy a WX license without calling PCSoft
2) they indicate in their videos that you will no longer buy individual products (Windev, WebDev, etc) you will buy access to the Windev suite based on the size of your organization

What are your thoughts?

Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) under webdev (no replies)

PETER ZHOU — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:07:43 +0200

Hi,

As i am not familiar with Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS), what's the best solution fixes under webdev ?
Any examples you can provide would be greatly appreciated

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

winscp (no replies)

ntnati — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:08:55 +0200

Hi,

are there any WINSCP .net dll users?
I need to find the return value in tr .

tr is Variant
Session.Open(SessionOptions)

// Upload file
TransferOptions is WinSCP.TransferOptions
TransferOptions.TransferMode = WinSCP.TransferMode.Binary

tr = Session.PutFiles(sLocalFileName, "/Inbox/", False, TransferOptions)

thnak you

Handling a callback url (6 replies)

mixgh — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:36:57 +0200

Hi,
I'm totally at sea with some of the internet technologies, though I have been able to survive using WebDev.

Has anyone ever processed a callback url after an HTTPSend() call. Some sample code would be of great help.

Thanks and regards

issah

Speaking of dongles (no replies)

JP — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:28:21 +0200

All,

As it so happens, I have need for additional WX2025 perpetual dongles (WD/WB/WM - non-subscription version). If anyone has some to sell then please send me a private message and we can discuss it.

Thanks

JP

Al Fakher - no ads allowed! (no replies)

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No ads allowed here!

Al Fakher - no ads allowed! (no replies)

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multiple files pick in windev (1 reply)

PETER ZHOU — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:29:19 +0200

Hi,

How do you do multiple files pick in WINDEV ?
I can only get it to pick one file at a time.

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

detect mouse click in a table for windev (2 replies)

PETER ZHOU — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:21:02 +0200

Hi,

2 questions under WINDEV :-

1)how to detect mouse left or right click on a table column and return the value in this column ?

2)Is there way to simulate CTRL+C on a table columm (not using the AAF menu option for table)?

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

windev mobile camera (1 reply)

SteveSitas — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:01:40 +0200

Hello,
I have been tesing this windev mobile 2025 app on pcsofts IDE.
I have a camera control on a mobile window - and although it didn't function on the emulator - the window opened fine and it just showed a empty rectangle. Of course it worked fine on an android phone.

Suddenly, without doing anything, when I go now in a mobile screen, in the pcsoft emulator, it exits the app !!!
This happens with all examples that have the camera control ...
Any Ideas?

Steven Sitas

Looking for a new mission (no replies)

Fabrice Harari — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:54:20 +0100

Hello everybody

I'm currently looking for a new mission, mostly remote... So if any of you needs something around WX, just let me know on contact@fabriceharari.com

Best regards

Fabrice Harari

image to text (4 replies)

PETER ZHOU — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:27:57 +0100

Hi,

Any idea how to do IMAGE TO TEXT from WINDEV ?
Or using any 3rd party tool ?

Regards,

PETER ZHOU

Printing/sending invoices with correct line sequence (3 replies)

Mike James — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:23:41 +0200

I generate invoice as PDFs or files of various types, eg XML, CSV. I had trouble retaining the original line sequence as per the source transaction.

Typically I scan a data source of invoice headers, and within the scan I filter another data source for all the invoice lines for that invoice, then scan those lines to generate the output:

FOR EACH
- Using HFilter, filter the invoice lines data source for that invoice (ordered by invoice and linenumber)
- FOR EACH
- - Print the invoice report or create the output file

I tried 3 different ways to filter the invoice lines data:

1. FOR...EACH - did not return the correct set of data, even though a display of the data source in the debugger showed the correct set of lines.

2. WHILE HOut() - correct invoice set but the lines were in random order

3. FOR EACH where "saleid = '" + .saleid + "'" ON LineNumber

#3 worked correctly. The "where clause" created the correct subset of data, and "ON linenumber" retained the correct line sequence.

See [doc.windev.com].

This may be well known but not to me. Shared for anyone who can benefit!

Browser page closes by itself after a few seconds (previously was working) (2 replies)

mixgh — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:37:12 +0100

Hi,

My page closes by itself after a few seconds when it is opened. Can't seem to find the reason why. This is a previously working app. The current version is in production. I only realized this when I tried to update it with new features. The trace log is the attached screenshot.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks and regards
issah

[WB27] problem running the project in debug (4 replies)

pao — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:42:47 +0100

We can't run any project in debug using chrome o edge, if we use firefox it works.

This is happening with the latest version of chrome and edge.

When we try to run the projects in debug wecann see the first page bug the session ends without any visible error.

SQL Server and MARS (2 replies)

alex.kolaric — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:08:04 +0100

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with MARS and SQL Server when using native client in your Windev/Webdev application? Which connection string text should be used to force MARS usage on a connection? I have weird error message popping up on some of our clients workstations

"cannot create new connection because in manual or distributed transaction mode"

and it happens on simple HReadSeekFirst while transaction is active. The weird thing is that it happens on some workstations only. I would like to try to solve it with MARS.

Regards,
Alex