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First of all i must thank CHRIS for this wonderful software... and his time

i've got some REAL WISHES that i hope will be added ... (if not now then sometime after)
so i will list them in this single post

1. GUI Buttons with Images.
2. "Links" in GUI (the ones which turns mouse cursor to "hand" when it hovers on them...)
3. Icons (images) in MENUS
4. Improve speed of Loop Files and folders
5. Gui, AVI type of control which could play supported movie types
6. Gui, HTML type of thing that could open HTML (flash HTML etc) in GUI


and is it possible to add a command (like some sort of Label) that could run PARALLEL to other thread... (SetTImer does this but if its label is stuck on some thing... whole script stops)
thanks (I apologize if some of them are already asked for ... and if they are .. i hope their priority will be updated )

Hi Cetus,

Regarding 2.) I think this is already possible, please serach the forum. I can remember that there was a discussion on it.

Regarding 4) How? The speed is already pretty fast. And it depends on so many things, disc speed, memory. But especially on the way you write your code. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have everything faster. But I feel that such a wish should be more constructive or with an example of were it is very slow.

Regarding 5 and 6) I personally do not consider these high priority, since I do not have any use for them. The Avis could be played with SoundPlay or started with any available player. and I do not see any need to have HTML in a GUI for a scripting language.

Regarding the PARALLEL: It is more a thing of your code, Windows is AFAIK not parallel (do you have two processors? SMP/MPP?). So the only way you could "simulate" parallel threads is to give all threads time to run. If you have set SetBatchLines,-1 you have to add Sleep to an endless or long loop, so that other threads have time to get their job done, too. Or you just set SetBatchLine to a higher value making the whole script less responsive, but I think this will be hardly recognized.


Regarding 1 and 3): I have also made once the wish to have these controls/additions. But with time I feel them less urgent, since user can better guess/memorize the purpose of a button, when it has text as a lable rather then any fancy icon. The only icon buttons I know which are known to most users are open, save, copy, paste. But you could do these things with pictures already. I once made a script for rajat for his SmartGui. The script was a toolbar with icons (pictures) for the controls and for moving them in different directions. No text at all. I should maybe post them in the script area.

Just my two cents.

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I think he means hover links where the mouse cursor would change image to a hand or something - that's been suggested before. Changing control text colour is possible already.

To me, they're already quite fast. Take a look at SetBatchLines.

I think a web browser control was suggested before, I'm definetly waiting for it. As for the other control type suggestions, they're all on the to-do list and were suggested before. Gui and gui controls are very high on the priority list so we can expect them sooner or later.

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As mentioned above, many of these suggestions are already planned. As for running something in parallel, the best way to do that is with a second/separate script. This is because each script has only one real thread with which to execute commands, and that is unlikely to change anytime soon (though a dedicated thread for the keyboard and mouse hooks might get added).

Rajat, I think, posted a link in the scripts and functions forum about using .hta files for creating html GUIs. It looks like a pretty good workaround.

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I've got a LOT of uses for embedding an HTML control within a GUI with autohotkey scripts. You know, I'd rather using a simple scripting language like this to make an application than to sit and learn how to do it "right." There's that AHK workaround rajat talked about, but that just runs a web page. I want it INSIDE my AHK application. There's got to be a way to make this easily happen.

Here's a site that talks about how to embed one with C:
http://www.codeproject.com/com/cwebpage.asp

Isn't that what AHK was made with? Well, anyway...I'm hoping I can eventually make my new type of web browser without doing it all completely with DHTML/CSS...although, its sounding better all the time.