Button control events

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Default events
Events supported by WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile
Events supported in WEBDEV
Optional events

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Button control events

Default events

Events supported by WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile

The following events appear by default in the WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile code editor:

Event	Runtime condition

Initializing	Executed when the window is opened. (*)
Click	Executed when the user clicks the button.
Click on the arrow	Executed when the user clicks the arrow of a split button. This code is run before the action associated with the arrow. For more details, see Drop-down button.

(*) By default, the "Initialization" event of each control is executed according to the order in which the controls were created in the window. To change this order:

On the "Window" tab, in the "Order" group, click "Initialization".
In the window that appears, use the arrows on the right to change the order in which the controls are initialized.

Events supported in WEBDEV

The following events appear by default in the WEBDEV code editor:

Event	Runtime condition

Initialization (Server code)	Executed when the page is opened.
Click on button (Browser code)	Executed when the Web user clicks the button. This code is always executed, regardless of the type of button action.
Click on button (Server code)	Executed when the Web user clicks the button. If the button action is: Automatic detection of server and browser code to be executed; server code will only be executed if it contains WLanguage code. Always execute server and browser codes, the server code will always be executed (even if it does not contain WLanguage code. Execute browser-click code only: server code will not be executed.

Two click codes are associated with the Button control fields:

a browser click code, which can be written in WLanguage (or JavaScript) in the code editor. This code is included in the HTML page and is executed on the user's computer.
a server click code, which can be written in WLanguage only. This code is executed on the server.

Note: In a static page, only Browser codes are available.

Optional events

Several optional events can be added. To add an optional event:

Select the desired control.
Display the code window of this control (F2 key).
Click the link "Add other events to xxx" at the bottom of the window code, after the last event.
All the optional events available for the control are displayed.
Check the optional event to add and validate.
Note: Several optional events can be selected.
The selected optional event is automatically added to the events managed by the control.

To disable an optional event, simply perform the same operations to display the list of optional events. Then simply uncheck the optional events to delete.
Note: If the deactivated code contains WLanguage code, this code is automatically deleted..

For example, you can use the following events:

the mouse hover over the control,
left mouse button down, up, double click,
right button down, up, with double click,
mouse wheel, etc.

For more details, see the Optional events.