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This is the list of controls that are ready to use in your GUIs by simply including the modules in your script (or doing something similarly easy). I provided only controls that are encapsulated well. Those that require user intervention, badly or not document, obviously buggy etc.. are not included. I will add new controls to this list as they are created.

Custom controls

• Animated Gif [dll, 9KB]
  
• Baloon Tooltip
  
• ComboX
  
• Color Controls
  
• _diagramm_
  
• Forms Framework
  
• Graphic Button
  
• HiEdit [dll, 43KB]
  
• HLink
  
• IL_Button
  
• ImageButton
  
• IP Address
  
• MMenu
  
• QHTM (dll, 250 or 400 KB ))
  
• Property (dll, ~50kb)
  
• Radial Menu Modules
  
• RaGrid [dll, 29.5 KB]
  
• Rebar
  
• Rich Edit
  
• SB_SetProgress
  
• Scroll Bar
  
• SpreadSheet [dll, 42.5 KB]
  
• SysAnimate
  
• Tab2 With Icons
  
• Toolbar
  
• Tooltip()
  
• TreeViewX
  
• Tray
  
• XButton
  

Gui Related:

• Attach
  
• A_ThisGui
  
• Common Dialogs
  
• Colored buttons with GDI
  
• ChooseIconEx
  
• CreateFont
  
• Dock
  
• Dot Matrix Control
  
• Edit Control Fuctions
  
• GDI+ Library
  
• HotKeyGui
  
• HTMLText
  
• Hotkey_IfControlActive()
  
• Info Gui
  
• Lex' Mouse Gestures
  
• LVA (list view with colors)
  
• PopupXY
  
• Progress Meter
  
• tic-MakeICOBars
  
• Menu Icons
  
• Scroll Bar Functions
  
• Show Menu
  
• SetCursor
  
• Subclass
  
• Splash me
  
• Table Layout
  
• Toggle Menu
  
• TreeView functions
  

Some other GUI stuff

Lil' Builder

Color Buttons

Custom Message Box

Dynamic context menus [dll, ~350K]

RmChart

Micha's controls

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What do you think about adding the Micha's New controls on GUI windows (Buttons, Statics, HMTL, RTF...) to your list .
As the most of them are adaptation of CodeProject controls, they are note "pure" AHK ones, but they are very interesting. The RTF control, for example, is well done.

The DLL is bigger then AHK itself. It also depends on other dlls. Wrappers don't exist. (Users need to handle DllCalls). There is one wrapper for grid, but it is not documented.

The RichEdit will probably be created soon (by corrupt) without requirement for DLL.
Also, most of the controls are already available via much smaller dlls. For instance, RaGrid is only 20KB.

Second thing is that if you use one control, U must include them all....

All in all, doesn't go with goals set above:


For the same reasons I didn't include very good RMChart - no encapsulation, docs etc.. and some other "controls" that are just proof it is possible to do, but not serious work.

So, the most important thing for me is ability to include control untouched - no jurking around the controls source code, and that it must not influence outer world.

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Good idea to list them!
It reminded me that I had to update also the AVI control, which I just done: it is now consistent with AniGif and IPAddress.
Find it at Add a resourced AVI to your AHK Gui
It is a bit hidden in a long topic, but I am unsure of the necessity of a new topic.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Ok, I added it. I think you should create new thread though.

I hoped that I can motivate authors to improve their wrappers.

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Hmmm... Comments that must follow a certain standard and if the control requires a lot of documentation you could use Natural Docs, I fell in love with your MMenu documentation and I may start using Natural Docs when the need arises

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Changed siggy at request of ahklerner

Since this topic is a great resource, I've made it sticky. Thanks for putting it together.

I think that Titan's Captcha Control should be added on the list, all the code needs is maybe a few more comments telling the person using it what the parameters do in detail.

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Changed siggy at request of ahklerner

This list seems to be real 3d party controls with wrappers for the dll calls. My captcha uses an array of Text controls for an abstraction layer, bots can quickly decipher it if they're programmed correctly. It would be useful to have a captcha control, if not with an external dll then perhaps using GDI. I'll study some PHP scripts and will try to come up with something.

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MMenu uses a 3rd party control? I thought things that were made in autohotkey that simulate a control (like my hyperlink one) could technically be considered a control and so added to list. (My hyperlink one isn't on there because its not too good right now and a much better solution was found)

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Changed siggy at request of ahklerner

I fully agree, it is a nice proof of concept, but won't stop an AHK script... Beside, I am not sure of the usefulness in a Windows dialog: a Web application can be attacked by anybody in the world, but such dialog can be attacked only on the local computer, no?

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Not many uses; it's often considered a nuisance. But there can be times when you want to prevent bots running your apps, like with macros or data collection forms.

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Most of the time, I don't mind, as I have full usage of my eyes (until some other people), but recently I was on a Web site on which I had to try four times before deciphering successfully the overly deformed characters...
An interesting alternative is to ask the user something a bot cannot answer, like a simple math operation, how many chars are in a string, etc., the idea being to take a random "challenge".

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Many men are colorblind (thankfully not I) so there's the issue of accessibility. As you said, when captchas are not configured properly they can be fustrating.

Logic puzzles are stupid, a pattern can be learned just as quickly.

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While I don't really want to take this thread more off topic, some people at Microsoft came up with a different method then the standard captcha.

The test is to have the user say which picture has a cat or a dog in it. It is fairly simple for a human, but would be much harder for a computer to recognize what the subject of the image is.

It'll need to be "Of these pictures, which ones are cats?" and at least 4 pictures because only having one right answer and two pictures gives the bot a 1 in 2 shot at guessing right.