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Sorry, I thought the phrase to present the new text

Thanks, "Guest".

I got confused with these trying to move SplashText window before it's shown.

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Foreword:
It's not obvious how completely things should be explained in the help file (helping novices) vs. searching the forum (favoring veterans), but all knowledge which can improve reliability should be published there.

UrlDownloadToFile fails for two reasons that I know, but which are not mentioned:
1. IE is offline.
2. IE has crashed (message box shown). (This is not very rare on my unstable system.)
EDIT 18th of October 2010:
I've had four crashes during these six weeks, and they didn't affect UrlDownloadToFile.
Only the tab process crashed at least three last times (IE8).
So, either only a main process crash affects or I've mistaken

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NoActivate but Clickable Wicked found a very usefull option
Note: if you have an edit control with this option you won't be able to type in it.

I can not find documentation for what the buttons at the top of a "Post a Reply" screen do?

Specifically, I wanted to learn how to create a code box. (Someone suggest I use one in my posts.) I could not find how to do so. People told me how, but no one was able to tell me where this is documented. I could not find it anywhere. So, I believe it is not documented. For more details, see:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtop ... 747#398747

(did Icreate that url correctly? I'm not sure.... the button has an ASTERISK now. what does that mean?)

I would like to suggest that these buttons be documented, hopefully in one of the sticky tutorials on using the forums (most of which I have read).




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That would be more how to use the website, rather than how to use AHK itself. As I'm posting this, I see the following just below & left of the Emoticons:


If you click on BBCode, it takes you to the BBCode Guide.

I can not find where the OPTIONS for the GUI,ADD,ControlType[,Options,Text] command are defined.

Options are shown for the GUI,SHOW command.

1. Are the options for GUI,ADD,TEXT the same as those for GUI,SHOW?

2. If they are, I think the documentation should say so. In that case, I should also think they should be with GUI,ADD,TEXT since that command is shown first in the doc.

3. What are the options for all the other controltype operands of the GUI,ADD command? I see options are listed for some: EDIT, UPDOWN, LISTBOX, but not all.

The options are listed but as they are general for all control types they have their own section rather than duplicating for each control type or just having them for one control and assuming that people will see that they are for all.

Within the Gui documentation look for the 'Options and styles for controls' section.

I would agree that the layout is not ideal but given the complexity of the documentation for Gui I think that the solution that is the docs is elegant and simple, it just takes a little while to be able to find your way around.

As this is the case maybe a link to the 'Options and styles for controls' section from the Gui, Add section would be useful?

That's a good start.

But, now, let's look at a particular: The "UNDERLINE" option for the GUI,ADD,TEXT command.

I do not find this option documented anywhere. It is "mentioned" in the GUI,ADD,TEXT section, but that's it. No formal statement about it. And in the same vein, the "NORM" option (to undo UNDERLINE) is also just mentioned in passing. This latter one got me: when I found UNDERLINE, I next tried -UNDERLINE to turn it off. NO!!!

Underline being not formally documented makes me wonder what else is not.

The table of contents for the GUI topic includes the following entry:
However, this entry is actually titled:

HIDE should be added to the link at the top of the table of contents.

Thanks.

I suppose you found this by now, but for posterity: Options and styles for controls.

Underline and Norm are used in the Text example as options for GUI, Font, thus you will find them documented there.

Hide is equivalent to Cancel, and thus mentioned in that link in the table of contents. It should be removed from Min, Max, Restore; or the two sections should be merged.

The entire GUI page needs to be rearranged; there's no doubt about that. The documentation itself is great, but disorganized. Right now, the priority is the phpBB upgrade. Some time in the future the help file can be addressed as a project in itself. The problem with modifying the online help is that it becomes out of sync with the download.

Documentation for RUN states
However, I received an error about a missing percent sign when I tried the following command:


I am virtually certain I have a problem with escaping a Percent sign.

But, the RUN command does not tell me I must escape this character.

1. What are ALL characters that must be escaped in this case?

2. A doc fix would be nice (probably a link to escaping in general).

3. I don't like that my sample command (Run http:...) shows up as a URL in this post. Can I turn that off. (I Did not use the url command/keyword.)

Thanks,
JoeFiesta

p.s. Yes, the "Escape Sequences" section of the SCRIPT chapter does mention this. But, why document the need to escape a comma here and not the need to escape a %. This is a matter of consistency and logic. The fact that % is NOT documented here implies that IN THIS CASE it need not be escaped.

the fact is the documentation all over the place assumes you read it and there for know that % is the first part of derefrencing a variable and so you should know by default as a matter of language contruction this needs to be escaped. should this detail be included in every single command since it applies there also?

as far as the coma goes because its escape rule is different

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Formal request to Polyethene

Percent sign should be much more obvious since a) in text args they're always used for dereferencing variables and b) using them incorrectly usually causes a load-time error dialog, whereas an unescaped comma causes no load-time error dialog and sometimes isn't caught at run-time either. For instance,
When run from a command prompt, that command (minus "run") would open My Computer and highlight C: drive. As the comma wasn't escaped, in this case it sets C:\ as the working directory and opens to the default location. The need to escape comma is documented there because it is a relatively common pitfall.
Use code tags for posting code, not quote tags.
I disagree. It should be obvious that percent signs are still used for variable dereferencing and therefore must be escaped to be seen as literal, especially since the next example after the "commas must be escaped" example uses a variable reference.

The example for detecting a twice or thrice pressed key under SETTIMER was very helpful.
But, the code is rather cumbersome. The example shows:

This can all be simplied to just 4 lines (which doesn't change the KeyWinC routine):

How would you explain what's happening in the comments; and would it be just as easy for a new user to understand?