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Ok, no COM this time... Thanks.

I updated ChooseFont.

You are now allowed to set initial color, and bug about default font height is corrected based on the knowledge I get with GetTextSize func.

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great stuff, thanx a lot majkinetor
it is very usefull for my current script, where i need the pick icon dialog.

i had some probs with win 2000, as the function is not exported by name, but by ordinal.
after a little research i found a solution to solve this prob.

changing line 28 in chooseicon.ahk to:
it works also in xp. have not tested it yet in other versions like win-me or 9x.
but just a thing i'm curious about: when i searched the web for PickIconDlg and win2000, i've read something about the strings must be converted to unicode to work properly with w2k. i did not played around with the unicode thing as it seems to work fine, even if using german special chars.

one little other thing in dialogs.ahk. when changing the line 13 to:
it displays the correct icon.

as i'm new to ahk and this forum just let me say it's a great treasure chest of knowledge in here, and it seems to be a nice community
and after beeing away from windows programming for years, it is great to start again with ahk. can't remember having so much fun with coding

@ Markus
und sollte es dich mal gelüsten AHK auf Deutsch zu diskutieren - das Deutsche AutoHotkey-Forum. Have fun.

Nice solution. When I created those functions, this command wasn't possible in AHK and I don't care much about systems prior to XP. I will see to find time to update the code with your changes as it is win2k, but I don't support dead systems in my programming, like Win9x.



I convert it to unicode using:

AHK doesn't support unicode, but this is binary thing.

The bug.


BTW, I don't use this dialog as it is stupid. I provided it here for the sake of compliteness. U should use ChooseIconEx for more advanced icon control


2 Markus

Welcom to the AHK forum. You will have good time here if you don't listen what BoBo speaks. Limit yourself to his regular "resource & utilities" posts to get the best out of it. Joining German forum is certanly not a good idea, as of knowledge split.

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Dear majkinetor,

Thanks for these functions.

Looking at the describtion:It seems confusing that one returns -1 on cancel, the other 0 and the third 1. Would it make sense to make them behave more identical? E.g. positive value for a result, negative value for Error and -1 for cancel.

Just my two cents

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Ciao
toralf

You are right.

I created those functions separately over larger time. I just joined the functions on this page.

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@majkinetor:
oh, "MultiByteToWideChar" i've been totally focused about the pickicondialog, so i've completely overseen it.
your ChooseIconEx looks very nice and comfortable, gonna test it now.
seems to to be the better solution, as the pickicondialog is not modal (or i dunno how to make it modal)
i don't think it is about splitting knowledge joining the german forum, as some ppl are not capable of the english language.

@BoBo: danke für die einladung werde dort mal vorbeisehen

Gui +OwnDialogs I thnk will help you make it modal, IIRC.

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seems only to work with ahk dialogs, but not with dialogs invoked by dll calls. thanks anway for your help.

There is, sadly, no method to show modal windows in AHK. You can make only dialogs modal.

That is the reason why ChooseIconEx uses modality loop at the end of its function main function.

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You are obviously not one one of them, so in your case it would be.

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this one works:

a lot off stuff i've got to learn about ahk and windoze coding

i've tested your iconex. it is really nice but slow when browsing large dirs like system32.

Yes. Its not made for browsing system32 but icon packs
Pick icon can't even see a dir.
BTW, i will give you a medal if you improve its speed. Its just the fact, again, that ahk is made for different kind of things in mind.



You missed the point. Make the ChooseIconEx function block the caller script and then report back.

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not really. i was concerning the dll call, not ChooseIconEx.
sorry for this confusion



even if i'm new to ahk, i noticed is limitations. but it still covers my needs. i've got VB express and delphi personal. but it takes too much time to getting used to it. apart from the fact that the VB express is totally useless for small tools, concerning the fact to deploy a huge .net redistributable.