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I've added Duplicate control.

would anybody be interested in conversion of plain old GUI scripts. the ones with defined positions as generated by SGUI? nothing fancy, just porting the function from there to here.

some views:
- the common control menu should apply to ALL controls. there's internal checking for individual controls built-in, so some can be ruled out there.

- when a selection is made for moving a group of controls, a listbox (just like SGUI) should be shown, where controls can be manually (de)selected. this is a must for selecting controls reaching out ofor just adjacent to border and for moving a group of controls while not moving a control in center.

by the way, is 'Gui, Font' coming?


this looks good with no over the control blocks... but changing the grid size causes garbage (fixed by minimizing and restoring the gui).

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quick question:

are the following supposed to be per-project or builder-wide settings:

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I'm doing something wrong, obviously. This looks like a great development tool. I downloaded, and unzipped it to a new directory, then attempted to run the "Lilbuilder.ahk" file. I get the following dialog box.

Can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Dave

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LilBuilder.ahk
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Error at line 69 in #include file "C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Desktop\Lil builder\wrapper\Dock.ahk".

Line Text: hwnd
Error: Default value not allowed with ByRef.

The program will exit.
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OK
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INSTALL latest ahk version please.

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Made some changes:


for some reason, i wasn't able to upload it on ahk.net ... was in a hurry, so upped it at http://www.mediafire.com/?czynmzm325y

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Merged your code into my repo. Thanks for it.

I looked at your code for duplicating a control. It only dublicates its content and size. I like its simplicity.
When you talked about duplicating controls, I was thinking of something more complex. I do not know if that is really wanted/needed. But I though it would be an "exact" dublicate, with all properties. But then it becomes kind of complicated. E.g. if a control is on a tab page, currently the duplicated control will only be added to the tab page when that tab page is set to accept newly created controls. If not, the control will get added to the gui.
I had in mind, that the control gets added to the same page, regardless of which or if a tab page is set to accept controls, just because its sibling belongs to it. And if a tab gets dublicated it gets duplicated with all its controls. But I guess you can see that this is getting kind of complex. But maybe I'm just thinking too complex.
Other things I wonderd:
- What happens with Label/VarName, one should the other has t be unique.
- Should the new control behind the initial control in the order of controls on the gui/tabpage, or just added to the end?

During sport I was thinking on how to apply some properties. I realized that some properties may only be applied when the control is created newly. I guessed Font is on of these props, but I just learned again that its not. But I think I will look into creating an exact duplicate with an customizable offset in X and Y and an option to remove its sibling. This would allow to apply props through new creation (by removing its first instance) or creating a pure duplicate.

Next thing I will look into is merging maj code into my repo.

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Ciao
toralf

I checked the code. Am I right, that this version doesn't use WM_Paint yet. If so I'll just wait until you have found your best solution.

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Ciao
toralf

I never thought such a complex duplication would be needed... and it probably will not be used as much as the time would b spent on building it. i decidedly kept it so simple... as that's all i've needed so far.
yes, i forgot to add options to duplication. need to add that.

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New version 0.6.5 is out
I overwrite Maj version number, since it didn't seem a real release, just a test version.

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Ciao
toralf

i don't think its li'l anymore though. lol

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I like understatement. :) And what the hack, it is an historic name. M$ isn't that small (micro) any more too. :)

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toralf

Why is the WinSet, Trans, 255 not in the function that creates the user gui? That was the problem with the control redrawing.

Oops, sorry I guess I was the one removing it, I didn't see a reason for it when I went through the code one day. Sorry about that. I'll add it again and add a comment.

Done: At line 19 of inc\Gui.ahk I'll addedDoes that solve the problem or redrawing for users? Please give feedback! Specially maj.

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Ciao
toralf

I don't see any reason why that would solve anything. The LilBuilder behaves the same in latest version like before

GRID problem is much more complex then I thought. I litteraly tried everything, and picture in the background behaves the best apart from the fact that it will be hard to sync it with Tab (if it is fixed so doesn't go bellow the image)

I wonder how other IDE's implement this feature....

First thing I noticed is that its never line grid but always dot grid. Perhaps dots are there for a reason.

Now, I am thinking about drawing dot per dot. Combined with update region of WM_PAINT this might be fast enough. Dots will not be put over controls ofc, unless control is Tab....

Again, pic in the background is probably the best solution, if we can make it work.

2Toralf
We must see what takes focus to PGUI, its very important. Now PGUI steel focus, and its hard to use F6 & F7 for grid. Acctually, you must click on gui title to use it. I think some thing you did with selector is the problem... I will also check it out myself, but keep that in mind, maybe you solve it in a pass...

Acctually, control moving and resizing and everything works superb (I like very much how you implemented multiresize), the only problem is activation spaming. I will see how that can be solved without loosing already well evolved selector. Thats why Picture was there initialy on the User gui, I tried to use control as a selector...

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Great work! Now it works on Win2k too (it didn't in previous versions).

Only the HLink control doesn't seem to work on Win2k.