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Pal18
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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: Control ID question |
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Hi, just a question for support. If I build a ahk app with a GUI progress 'control', ... by default it may have a naming description like "msctls_progress123" or something. Is there anyway I can assign a custom ID like "mycontrolA" instead of default name Windows assigns?  |
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SKAN
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You may create a customised control with CreateWindow(). Would not be worth the trouble, I guess.
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Pal18
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| That is interesting! I didn't know it would be so difficult. I am creating a custom application, where I am afraid the gui controls might change over time from the Windows default (if Microsoft has its way). I am curious, how would the CreateWindow( construct, be applicable to a AHK function?? |
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ahklerner
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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they are called common controls for a reason.
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Pal18
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, it is true this may be off the beaten path... but I am hoping (skan if you are still out there bud?, this function from MS could be simplified into ahk language-speak somehow
I don't quite understand the conversion process
, ......... thank you if you can help me out!
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HWND CreateWindow(
LPCTSTR lpClassName,
LPCTSTR lpWindowName,
DWORD dwStyle,
int x,
int y,
int nWidth,
int nHeight,
HWND hWndParent,
HMENU hMenu,
HINSTANCE hInstance,
LPVOID lpParam
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Pal18
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Skan, might you have understanding on how to de-crypt this function into AHK for a gui-control I am very much not an expert, but I hope to have at least give it a try if I have a basis for where to go with this to write it out myself |
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SKAN
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I have been wading thru MSDN for past few hours.. It does not seem simple. 
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Pal18
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hi there again SKAN Thank you for giving some try and for connecting back.... this group seems very friendly and I appreciate the direct and true responses..... I cannot make this work either.
I am barely 3 weeks into AHK so please forgive me if I don't know all the technical use-words. Do I have to build common controls only? I thought at first I could just run the function and fill in the blanks, but it looks like I cannot do this Nativity and this needs some special effort into maybe figuring out how to parse this into AHK. Where do I start?? Why & where would MSDN be helpful to this extent?
Thank you SKAN for trying.
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So to all --
I am still trying to set this up as a special simple function to call a GUI elegantly,..... like progress or list view apparatus, with a custom name instead of listview321 i might use ThisListViewA for example,.... so If anyone really knows where to go with this, it would be greatly appreciated for this q here.. |
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jaco0646
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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When calling your own Gui controls internally via the GuiControl command:
| AHK Help File wrote: | | If the target control has an associated variable, specify the variable's name as the ControlID... For this reason, it is usually best to assign a variable to any control that will later be accessed via GuiControl or GuiControlGet, even if that control is not an input-capable type... |
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