by Unlicensed Unknown user
In Installing WinDev I briefly describe the shipping product (WinDev, WinDev Mobile and WebDev) and went through the WinDev install process. At the conclusion of that process the installer offered to show me the tutorial, but I opted instead to spend a bit of time familiarizing myself with the WinDev concepts manual, with the idea that this would give me a better grounding in the WinDev Way.
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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 Unknown user has demonstrated this in a WxLive webinar.
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