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All of which brings up the question of paged data retrieval. Clarion developers are accustomed to paged data retrieval, which brings the benefit of better performance on large data sets and introduces many complications when you want to do things like totals on data not entirely in memory. By default WinDev, like many other data retrieval tools, just brings back whatever you tell it you want, so it's up to you to use appropriate filters on your data sets. I'm told there is an equivalent to page loading available within WinDev, although it has some limitations. You can also build your own paging support, if you wish - Unlicensed user has demonstrated this in a WxLive webinar

Just for fun, I regenerated the application using the Antakara pattern and got something rather different. Here's a browse with an open form (note that the browse is automatically dimmed):

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