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Problem: The variable returned by checkbox/radio is a 0/1 value, but to initialize it you must use the "checked" option. Disabling GUI elements also requires using the "disabled" option. I would like a way to do both of these with a simple 0/1 value too.

It can be done with a few lines of code like this...



but what I would prefer are options (perhaps I for Initialize, E for enable) which can be followed by a 0/1 value. This would allow the above in a single line of code...



The same initialize syntax chould be valid for any GUI element that can have a default value (eg. edit) even though they can also be initialized via the third parameter.

As a simpler alternative, perhaps just add options Checked0/Checked1 and Disabled0/Disabled1? This would work like this...



What do you think?

Those are some good ideas; they point out shortcomings that should definitely be fixed. I've added them to the to-do list.

The "Gui Add" command was designed under the expectation that it would be used only once for each control, each time a script is launched. I failed to anticipate that people would want to use "Gui Destroy" fairly often.

By the way, there it is also planned to someday have a "Gui Clear" command which resets all controls to some starting default.

Hi Chris,

What I am doing is creating a GUI for settings in my script. It basically works like this...

1. Read some settings from the registry (0/1 values)

2. Display a GUI with checkboxes initialized to show the the current settings. Some settings may be disabled depending A_IsAdmin or other settings.

3. If OK button is clicked, write the (possibly changed) settings back to the registry

It all works as it is, I just like tidier code

Thanks, your usage is another good reason to add this capability.

This has been added to today's release:Thanks for explaining why it's so useful.

It wouldn't be workable for most things because options can't have spaces in them (since spaces are used to separate the options).

Thanks Chris,
It all works as expected and simplifies my script considerably.