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[Guest]

Here is a snippet of a code that used to work, until recently.

gui, add, edit, vField8, %Field8%

Then it would be Gui sumitt

Copied to Excel.

Then Gui destroy

Then rerun the entire GUI from the top, with the new value for %Field8%

I do not if that was a best way, but it worked.

Latel, however, something has been modified or changed, and freezies/locks my machine?

[toralf]

Dear Guest,

Could you please post some more code, I doubt that the one line you posted is the problem.
And please use the "code" button to post it. Thank you.
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[Titan]

Because your description of your problem was quite generalised I can't give a direct solution. However, some guildelines to consider:

Gui, Destroy
This destroys the gui window and corresponding variables

Gui, x:Destroy (e.g. 2:Destroy)
This destroys the x'th gui window, so if you had five gui windows and you want to close the third one you would use Gui, 3:Destroy

Reload
This could be called a novice way to go about it but it is extremely easy to use a reload command to start the gui you wanted from start again.
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[Tuest]

Thank you for your replies.

It appears to Gui, destroy has stopped working, as the fol e.g.

; Example: Simple input-box:

START:
Gui, Add, Text,, First name:
Gui, Add, Text,, Last name:
Gui, Add, Edit, vFirstName ym ; The ym option starts a new column of controls.
Gui, Add, Edit, vLastName
Gui, Add, Button, default, OK ; The label ButtonOK (if it exists) will be run when the button is pressed.
Gui, Show,, Simple Input Example
return ; End of auto-execute section. The script is idle until the user does something.

GuiClose:
ButtonOK:
Gui, Submit ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable.
MsgBox You entered "%FirstName% %LastName%".
gui, destroy

goto start
ExitApp

[toralf]

I didn't test, but I think it works fine.

The only problem is that you have a endless loop in your code.

This should work fine

[corrupt]

The problem seems to be with deleting all windows then trying to recreate one. This seems to work ok:

[Guest - of the first post]

Yes Thank you so much.

Like I mentioned earlier it worked fine, countless times, but only recently stopped working. So something changed somewhere, but now I am back in business and wish to thank all you good people for this.

[corrupt]

After a bit more testing... the crash only seems to appear if Gui, Destroy is used on the first window created (if the first window created does not have a label) when/if the window is later recreated...

[Chris]

I can't reproduce this problem. Even when the program is compiled in debug mode, there is no complaint while running the script.

Which version of AutoHotkey are you using (there was a bug related to "Gui Destroy" fixed a few months ago).

If you're using a fairly new version, which OS are you using?

Thanks.

[corrupt]

AutoHotkey version - 1.0.30.03
O/S version - XP pro SP2

[Chris]

This might be a bug revealed only by SP2's stricter security and buffer checking.

With the use of an extra Pause or MsgBox, can you isolate for me whether it's the "Gui Destroy" line itself or something that comes afterward that causes the crash.

Thanks for your help.

[corrupt]

This crashes for me after I click OK then click Ok for the MsgBox

[Chris]

Yes, but there's doubt about which line causes the crash. Obviously it happens after the MsgBox, but on which line?

By the way, it still doesn't crash on my SP1 system (I'll be applying SP2 soon, so that should help reveal the problem).

Thanks.

[corrupt]

This might help pin it down a bit...

[Chris]

Thanks a lot. Those details helped isolate the problem even though it would never crash on my system.

Although a problem was definitely fixed, I can't be 100% sure it was THIS problem until one or both of you retests it:
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Thanks again.