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twhyman · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 256

Hi,

i want to create a button on the GUI that by clicking it a new window
will popup with a button to link to my site and display some text and an
OK button, to close it.
all this by keeping the main window in the background and disabled until the about window is closed.

i tried to make this work and i went over the GUI commands and i cant figure it out.... Question

Thanks
Twhyman

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

Please post your code, then we can take a look.
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toralf

twhyman · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 256

i want to implent the about button in couple of little applications that i made

so here is the most basic start code:

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

You need to create a new GUI if you want to have a link to your website showing.
Since the GUI ID has to be different to the IDs used in the main script, I suggest to use a high ID, e.g. 99 or 77.
I would name the g-lable of the AboutButton BtnOpenAboutWindow, so it doesn't conflict with any other subroutine.

The subroutine BtnOpenAboutWindow and all the code of the about window should be placed in a separate file that is only included into the main script with #Include, so you can include the about into several other scripts as well.

Since you want to have an interaction between the calling GUI and the About window, e.g. disable the calling GUI, you have to have a variable in the calling script that holds the GUI ID, so you know which ID you have to set inactive.

The link you can represent with a text control that has blue text color and is underlined. With OnMessage() and GetMousePos you can find out if the text control is clicked, and act acoordingly.

Or you can search the forum, I can remeber that several people have posted examples for an about window with a link. Good luck.
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neyon · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 34 Location: The Netherlands

Okay, this is a very basic piece of code:

AGU · Guest

I've made s.th like this in my BBCodeWriter script.

Just in case you're willing to study some code, take a look at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6161

Open '?' in the menu bar and click "About..."
The code passage can be found in BBCodeEditor.ahk and is named "About GUI".

Cheers
AGU

twhyman · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 256

thanks alot guys especially neyon you rock!

Twhyman