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Thanks jethrow and Lexikos. A concise, clear, complete, and quick response. Very much appreciated.

Lexikos, and everyone who helped, thanks for all of the new AHK functionality. As a programmer ...

Insight needed. Is the "Gui, New" command now required if using named GUI's? The documentation suggests it is needed to insure "Gui, Add" statements work correctly. Does it prov ...

The docs I've read say that a hyphen embedded within a XML tag is supported. xpath doesn't seem to handle it. Any chance this can be easily supported?

Thanks,
TL

Problem was fixed by making the following change to the ReadFile dll call:

From:

RtnCode := DllCall( "ReadFile", "UInt", Handle, "UInt", &TextRead, ... ...

The following code worked in 1.0.47.06 but fails in 1.0.48.05 (error handling code not shown). The TextLen is retrieved correctly but the Text variable is empty (because the Temp variable is empty af ...

Your right, you have to read the ini file to determine if "Run before" should be run. But it could be reread after the "Run before" has executed. I think it would be worthwhile i ...

Oops, posted this in the old thread. Here it is again in the correct thread.

I set up a "Run Before" script that will update the product version number in the ini file from a project fil ...

I have a AHK executables that were placed in an old game's installation directory on a Vista machine: C:\Program Files (x86)\<game name>.
If the AHK executables are run without Admin permission ...

I set up a "Run Before" script that will update the product version number in the ini file from a project file before executing the compile. It doesn't work. It appears that "run befo ...

Thanks for the replies.

The ahk version is 1.0.47.06. It doesn't appear that caching is the problem.

Yes, I can you download the file with IE6. The IE settings seem to be ok.

Are there any known problems with using URLDownloadToFile in Windows 98 running IE 6? The function downloads the file in XP and Vista but fails in Win98. IE 6 in Win98 will download the file if it i ...

Thanks. You provided just the insight I was looking for.
TL

I'm evaluating whether to switch to the new dynamic function method on my existing project. Some questions:

If I want to validate that a string contains a valid function name without executing the ...

Thanks lexiKos,
TCM_ADJUSTRECT provided just the solution I was looking for. Here is the guts of the code:

;RECT structure - Load Tab control's location
VarSetCapacity( TabPrc, 16, 0 )
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How can I determine the location and size of the client area within the tabs of a tab control? It should be the same for all tabs in a tab control. I want to place the child controls on the tab usin ...