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Hülyesamu · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 22

Hi, I want to create a popup menu made of array of buttons that reads its content from a text file. (Ie. The first button has a text of THIS, and does THAT, both definded in the text file).

Certeanly, the buttons do the same, but with a different variable (more specifically, they send the keys that is written onto them: A "Kitchen" key says the keys k--i-t-c-h-e-n, etc)

Is it possible to do this in the AutoHotkey? Since the buttons need a "g label" gosub for everyone of them, but at a dynamically generated content it doesn't work.

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Mustang · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 421 Location: England

Create a text file called "File.txt" with the following in it:

engunneer · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 8255 Location: Maywood, IL

you can also do it with buttons. give them all the same glabel, and then make the label send/use %A_GuiControl%, which will contain up to the first 63 letters of the button's text.
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Hülyesamu · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 22

Thanks, I'll try it.

Link68759 · Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

I don't mean to raise a dead topic, but how does one assign the same glabel to the buttons?

I understand a little; report the button's name from the gosub using A_GUIControl, but how do you set that up in the first place?

jaco0646 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 3113 Location: MN, USA

The example above assigns each menu item to the label MenuHandler and determines which item was selected by checking A_ThisMenuItemPos.

If you're talking about using actual buttons, it's even easier: just assign each button to the same gLabel.

Link68759 · Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

thanks, I actually just figured it out.

What I didn't understand was that the glabel was activated every time I pressed the button; the manual just said that it ran the label immediately. In my mind, if the label was only run when the button was created, even if I made the glabel, I would've ended right back where I started. Then I just did it to see what would happen and voila.

Thanks for the help.

diesalher · Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 28

Im trying the same with one difference, i need the buttons to have the same text (i have a list of to-do things and i want a delete button at one side) How can i determine the button pressed and the label associated?

Example

List.

[Delete]Buy milk
[Delete]Buy Coffee
[Delete]Write a Book

I want to press the button near the label and identify in the subroutine the label near the button, is there a way?

jaco0646 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 3113 Location: MN, USA

Here's a sample using buttons...