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my wishlist (concerning GUIs only)

 
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rafleo



Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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Location: Bremen, Germany
PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:00 pm    Post subject: my wishlist (concerning GUIs only) Reply with quote
Hey Chris,

I would really enjoy having the possibility to have real
buttons with an image (and / or text) in AHK without having to use special functions or DLLs.
Also, a menu for windows would be enjoyable.

I don't know how other users think, so please post comments.

Cheers!
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tic



Joined: 22 Apr 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is already possible
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rafleo



Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
well, i know that you can have some sort of fake menu and having buttons with images using special functions or dlls, but what i was looking for was a native support for this by ahk.
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tic



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Code:
Gui, Add, Picture, x10 y10 w100 h-1 gMsg, Picture.jpg
Gui, Show, AutoSize
Return

Msg:
MsgBox, This is a button
Return
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corrupt



Joined: 29 Dec 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
tic wrote:
Code:
Gui, Add, Picture, x10 y10 w100 h-1 gMsg, Picture.jpg
Gui, Show, AutoSize
Return

Msg:
MsgBox, This is a button
Return
Not quite the same. Nice try though...
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Trikster



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Location: Enterprise, Alabama
PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Search the forums for graphic buttons.
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Lexikos



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:26 am    Post subject: Re: my wishlist (concerning GUIs only) Reply with quote
rafleo wrote:
I would really enjoy having the possibility to have real buttons with an image (and / or text) in AHK
As in, a button with an image on it, or a button with custom graphics?
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without having to use special functions or DLLs.
Why?
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Also, a menu for windows would be enjoyable.
Could you elaborate? I think windows wouldn't be very tasty. Twisted Evil
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tic



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Not quite the same. Nice try though...


Well he hasnt said what he considers a button. Does he need mouseover effects? or click effects...? Theyre all easily possible in ahk, but he just needs to elaborate more.
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rafleo



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was just thinking about a "real button" (like the ones you can create via gui, add, button), but simply with the possibility to have an image besides the text or simply only an image.
I just thought that this couldn't be very difficult to add, because other major programming language, like C++, has this option. And you can style your GUIs a bit more.
An external DLL or function may increase the size of the compiled EXE a lot more than if it is added to the DLLs that are included in the EXE anyway.

And for the menu - I thought of a menu at the top of a GUI, where you can have file, edit, view, help etc. The workaround made by (I forgot who made it), anyway, the MMenu method is working, but for example under win 98 the position of the menu is another than when using win xp (which is quite strange). And as we have a StatusBar now, the menu is the other element that could bring ahk GUIs forward to the possibilities of today. (You could create nider editors etc.).

I mean, it was only an idea, but I thought it would make ahk a bit better and bring nearly all the features that you'll find in VisualBasic, C++ and so on.

But keep on critizising, I'm not the master of AHK, and you may show me that I have to learn a lot (and what it is).
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Lexikos



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
rafleo wrote:
II just thought that this couldn't be very difficult to add, because other major programming language, like C++, has this option.
It can be done in C++ via owner-drawn buttons or button styles/messages. You have the same options in AutoHotkey.
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An external DLL or function may increase the size of the compiled EXE a lot more than if it is added to the DLLs that are included in the EXE anyway.
Is 1 KB somehow unacceptable? Who's to say building it in would necessarily make it any smaller?
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And for the menu - I thought of a menu at the top of a GUI, where you can have file, edit, view, help etc.
Does Gui, Menu, MenuName somehow fall short of your expectations?
Ian wrote:
Search the forums for graphic buttons.
Have you done as Ian suggested...? The second link (atm) is Graphic Buttons. With slight modifications, the button can have text and an image. It's not even 1 KB...
rafleo wrote:
I thought it would make ahk a bit better and bring nearly all the features that you'll find in VisualBasic, C++ and so on.
Oh, don't worry... it's already done. Laughing
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AHKnow*
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
He may be getting at colored buttons. Like a blue button, without having to make DLL calls.

AutoHotkey's method for creating GUIs is great, but you can't create the same kind of GUIs that you can in other languages yet. The colored button is an example.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
AHKnow* wrote:
He may be getting at colored buttons. Like a blue button, without having to make DLL calls.

AutoHotkey's method for creating GUIs is great, but you can't create the same kind of GUIs that you can in other languages yet. The colored button is an example.


Oopssss. I mean not able to create GUIs at the same level of other languages without doing "workarounds", like DLL calls, etc....

I'm thinking the OP wanted this type of capability built into the standard AHK GUI language.
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