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Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

its true there is not yet a control like what you want, however this is a way...

having a slider on the side that moves the controls for the checkbox edit and so on up and down is an effective way to get it done, but I have requested such a feature to chris.
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Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1718

there can be a different approach that's possible with what we already have... instead of many checkboxes try just one listbox. we can add or remove items to it dynamically from script. and use '8' in its options for the desired effect.
do try, you might like it.
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toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3842 Location: Bremen, Germany

That option '8' is new, isn't it? That's a nice feature.

There is a way that you can add the checkboxes and buttons on the fly with a loop. But the problem arises from the fact that your buttons will have g-lables with an indey number, but you can't hold as many subroutines. (I have done this dynamic creation for one of my guis, but without buttons, just text and progressbars which get dynamical variables)

And what happens when the to-do-list gets long? Does the window then disappeer at the lower screen? I think that this should be avoided.
Therefor Rajats listbox is the best choice. You can even make it look like a multicolumn list. E.g. have (A)rchive, (D)one, (U)rgent in the first column, then the started date and the to be finished date. The last column can be a be column of variable length.
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Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

Like rajat said, manipulating all those check boxes is plenty more work than is has to be. I came up with this before I even thought of making a gui with all them checkboxes

AGU · Guest

I read all your posts. Very interesting. I can't find anything about this option 8. What's that? Do you have an example script or anything else to study?

@Invalid User
Nice GUI. But I thought of just one single listbox which is filled dynamically at the start of the script. Possible?

@toralf
Indeed it can and shall happen that the list gets longer than the listbox. In this case I would like to have a scrollbar. Is that possible? I thought this app should hold not just tasks, but also ideas and thoughts which come to my mind when sitting at my computer. In order to not forget it in the next second I want a hotkey to save it very fast. Sounds kind'o'weard, heh? Wink

Hey, it comes to my mind. Why not 3 tabs in the GUI. Tab "Ideas", "Tasks", Thoughts". Maybe this is s.th for later. Laughing

But let me discribe what I mean. (some very, very basic PAP Wink

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I start the script. A Loop or s.th similar scans the semicolon seperated textfile for all lines with either the Now/Archive Attribute. At start that should be all lines with "now" attribute. E.g.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1718

Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

All that needs to be done is.... well you said you didnt want anyone doing it ALL for you so....
But this might give you some ideas and something to go off of, I am gonna finish this and post it when its completly done

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3842 Location: Bremen, Germany

@AGU: Read the manual regarding option 8 for listboxes (it is in the section of "Multi" option for ListBox)
- Scrollbar - possible - is automatically activated, when mre items are in a list then can be displayed. (again: see GUI manual)
- Consider to do a pipe "|"separated textfile, then you could use the semicolon also in the text of the idea.
- Yes, the list can be filled with data from a file at start time.
- Yes, all of these button tasks are possible.
- To have full control of what is in a listbox, use an array of tasks. Each task is a semicolon of pipe separated string. The substrings can hold all data that needs to be stored. Only some of these substrings are displayed in the list.
- The advantage of an array is that you can move items up and down the list(difficult with strings), add and delete them easily and make a loop over them (e.g. for storing). Although a string is nice for sorting items. But you can always switch between a string and an array.
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Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

A few more Bonus prizes and this is done
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Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

Ok, My version of this solution is done, Save the first portion as what ever you want, where ever you want and Save the Second Portion in that same location under the name MKTips.ahk, I suggest that you do this on a 3.5 Floppy cus then you can take your thoughts with you to any pc (according it has a 3.5 drive and you have access to it) you want. Yall lemme know what you think. By the way I know there are a few limitations to it but I think it will serve the forgetful and/or the to-fast-of-thinker-for-his-own-good types. Enjoy

AGU · Guest

Hey man, thanks. Great job. Smile

Hadn't much time this week. But I promise I'll look through all of the lines and try to understand what you did. Wink

And of course I'll let you know what I think. Very Happy

Thanks again for all your work.

Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

Hey not a problem, But there is some limits to it cus frankly I started getting bored of the task. Example, there is no feature for rightclicking and deleting, editing, move to this other list...etc.
any other odd job you want done, I am kinda laid off right now...so I have some time. I am no expert but I seem to get by
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BoBo · Guest

@ guys
am I'm right that your system responds AHK's A_ScreenWidth with something > 12.000 p Shocked

That post would be unaccesible without using the horizontal scrollbar Rolling Eyes

"Mr. 800x600" (AFKAR = artist formerly known as Rajat) will be entitled to blame you for that on the next Asian AHK summit Laughing

Invalid User · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Texas, Usa

Ok I am really confused BoBO, is that post on the right thread?
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toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3842 Location: Bremen, Germany

@Invalid:
Nice job, still I have some comments:
- Why do you have all these subdirectories? Only one ini file will be placed in them. I think it is not neccessary to have the subdirectories.
- When you read the ini files you immediately add them to the listboxes, And when you save them you have to use GuiControlGet. The problem is that AGU wants to save more data to the inis then is displayed in the list. And if you want to change the order of the items in the lists, it will be pretty difficult. I would recommend to read the inis into a string first. That string you can assign (or part of it) to the listbox, and do all kind of manipulation on it. So instead of addding a new item to the list directly, you add it to the string and that gets into the listbox. For saving you just put the string into the files 8without loosing the part that isn't shown in the listbox). And you do not have to worry about getting the control content.

Just my 2 cents
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