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[Rajat]

:: SmartGUI Creator ::

Latest : Release 4.0

Here's an easy point-n-click GUI (user interface) creator!... You just draw a user interface the way you like and a script will be generated where you can input code deciding what happens when a certain button is pressed etc.


Screenshot:


For important guidelines please read relevant section in help manual

Awards:

Softpedia Review

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Download:

Main Site (or Mirror Site)
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Latest Changes:

- Running with the command line parameter 'GiveMeSource' extracts the source code to the SGUI folder. (Ok this was already there, but now you know! )

- Added a toolbar and menubar for all functions. (Thanks toralf, you've initiated the interface changes in this release, and got me to tag this as ver 4.0!)

- Right click menu is now limited to just the control related functions.

- The tray icon and menu are gone for good.

- Now you can edit complete GUI scripts with SGUI and not just the ones with only GUI commands. What this means is that when editing a script, the GUI is edited in SGUI and when saving it back the other data in the script (other sections etc.) is not lost. Though this is not completely perfect, it should work fine for most scripts (see test script).

- While editing GUI files, the various options specified for controls (including group and variable option) are not lost when the gui is saved to a new file.

- Added 'Custom Option' to control menu. Here you can specify any valid option for that particular control. Effect for most options can be seen right away in SGUI. eg. you can specify 'Vertical' for slider or 'ReadOnly' for edit controls or -16 for UpDown so that it doesn't snap to other controls etc..

- Justify options work much better and changes can be seen right away in SGUI no matter how many times the change is done.

- The 'Set GUI Count' input for scripts allows the number to be set upto 99.

- Added the 'Ask GUI Count' option which lets you specify the GUI count of the current GUI while saving the script.

- Added the following options while saving a file:
-- Save New GUI to Clipboard (Thanx gs and Titan)
-- Save new GUI to File
-- Save Modified GUI to File

- I've again put in default control labels while creating controls instead of blank ones.

- Like other controls Tab also doesn't ask label during creation, unless 'Ask Control Label' option is on.

- Added UpDown controls on control's 'Set Position' window.

- Changed the default grid background to a very clean one, as the earlier one increased the file size considerably. (You can still use custom backbrounds)

- Bigger grid for bigger desktops, well what can I say, the new one is BIG (I wish I had such a big desktop) (Thanks bwechner)

- Internally has better hotkey handling.

- Relative positioning of sub-windows (Thanks d_man)

- Fixed SGUI's launch with file bug (Thanks Chris)

- Fixed dialogs going behind main window (Thanks Chris)

- Fixed group of control's disappearing selection box bug (Thanks Chris)

- Changes to the behaviour of File Saving (Thanks Chris)

- SmartGUI is now hosted at autohotkey.net and mirrored at autohotkey.com (Thanks Titan & Chris)
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[BoBo]

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Holy moly that's weird !!!!

Good to know that Chris isn't the one and only

C'mon guys & dolls. Let's give Rajat an extra salute !!!
"For he's a jolly good ... nana nana na na "

[Rajat]

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[Chris]

You've outdone yourself; that is unspeakably amazing!

[Candle]

Real nice . no reason to do the form maker I was going to do ..

[Rajat]

Release 1.1

Changes:

-A GUI size fix, where generated windows were bigger than anticipated.

-Added an option to be able to set the label (text shown on buttons/checkbox etc.) of every control while creating GUI, so that you can know exactly what the length of your control should be to accomodate the contents.

-Added a nice about box


please guyz.... some feedback?!
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[Rajat]

[Jon]

That is very nice rajat.

I can't think how you could have made that with just ahk.

Would it be possible to have the tray menu appear by the mouse for example when you press control and left click. Save going to the tray icon each time.

Thanks, Jon

[Candle]

[Rajat]

Jon,
i've updated the .zip to your suggestion. let me know if it really helps, as i've tried it and if felt a bit awkward to maneuver.

maybe we can settle for an all keybd hotkey or maybe mouse middle button.
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[Rajat]

bobheart,
the screenshot looks good... let me know if u have some nice ideas on improvement of SmartGUI....i might use some of your insight!
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[Candle]

page is 404 now .

[Jon]

Hi Rajat, Yes, the middle mouse button or another hotkey might be better. Change it to what ever you find the easiest.

It won't let me download it atm so I'll try again later.

[Rajat]

the link should be operational now. do let me know of your hotkey preference.
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[Jon]

Hi Rajat, I think It was better having the menu right next to the mouse. Using the middle mouse buttom would probably be easier though.

I've been testing smartgui quite alot and these are a couple of things I've noticed-

When inserting a picture or a combobox, they seem to dissapear when moving or resizing them.

When resizing the groups, it takes part of the image behind it with it so you can't see whatat is behind the group when resizing it.

If you resize the images to make them smaller they go back to full size when you run the script.

Thanks, Jon