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dncarac · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 64

Gui, Submit will traverse all the controls and transfer the contents of the controls to the associated variables.

What I'm doing is an editor to generate a control file for a program. I can generate a GUI, fill it in, perform a Gui,Submit, then write the file from the associated variables.

What I'd like to do is be able to read a previously generated file and perform the opposite of the Gui, Submit - that is, take the file data, and transfer it to the associated controls on the GUI.

I am doing a whole series of Gui Controls. And I have to keep the series up to date as I add and delete controls. But for completeness sake, there should be an opposite function.

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tic · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1375

There is. Thats what the x, y,w,h are for.

dncarac · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 64

Sorry. But aren't w h x y related to location of a control?

I'm talking about a single function for simultaneously setting data from associated variables INTO all the controls (wherever they are located) -- the opposite of Gui, Submit, which gets data FROM all the controls and puts it in associated variables.

Lexikos · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2739 Location: Australia, Qld

That would be useful, but I think it doesn't exist yet. Assuming you can get the associated variables from the control file as a list, you could iterate through and use GuiControl on each control.

dncarac · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 64

Thanks. I had thought of that too. So, given that there is no existing function, is there some sort of "enumerate control IDs" function for a GUI?

Lexikos · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 2739 Location: Australia, Qld

Not that I'm aware of. If you are restoring the control contents from a "previously generated file", do you not already have the list of IDs?

dncarac · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 64

I do, but I am in the process of adding and subtracting controls. Each time I do, I have to update the list of GuiControl's to update the control from the file data. Not really a big deal, but this leads to errors which have to be found and fixed.

If there were a Gui,Submit opposite, I could just execute that, and all variables which are associated with a control would update their control and I wouldn't have to worry about it.