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silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Ok I posted this question on support forum but I was directed here. I need a GUI that can launch my scripts with. Basicly I want it setup so there is an arrow that drops down and shows alist of all my scripts. Then when I select one I would be able to start/stop or pause my scripts with buttons. I understand I would need hotkeys setup in my scripts. The main thing is I need to know is how to make the GUI interface with my scripts.

Also, I was wondering if there is an option to modify an INI file through the GUI.

Is there any really good help files on this. I have looked at everything readily availible and I am lost lol.

Zeusrex · Guest

I just downloaded this, and maybe it will help you: Gui4Cli from Gui4Cli.com. I'm new to this all, but this seems to be a GUI program that is made to integrate with scripting languages. I'll get back to you when I try it!

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

I am at work atm so I cannot get it to install here windows nt sucks lol.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10464

As Rajat said, here are a few examples if you haven't read them yet:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=361
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=260
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=151

Based on your description, you might be able to avoid the complexity of a GUI and just make a menu. For example, each script could be a submenu containing a selection for "pause", "run", etc.

Beastmaster · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

In the good ol' DOS days I used some software from NeoSoft (NeoShow,NeoBook,QuickMenu,NeoPaint). NeoBook can be used to create GUI's which can trigger commandline actions (as far as I remember).

Meanwhile Laughing

all these apps have been migrated to Win.
You can download trials from their

Homepage.

Or check if you can find a free configurable taskbar/officebar tool.

Good luck Wink

Beastmaster · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

Check savage's posting. He's recommended PowerPro.

savage · Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 206

On the Powerpro yahoo group there's plugins for powerpro and gui4cli that let them play nicely together. Maybe an interface between gui4cli and ahk would be useful. I'm not sure what would be involved though.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10464

It's too bad gui4cli isn't open source. The potential for seamless integration would be much better then. In any case, I'll be taking a look at gui4cli and other GUI tools before adding GUI features to AHK.

silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

I printed out all the examples and stuff I could find and gonna read over it all at work tonight.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

this thread reminded me of a script that i did quite some time ago.

the background:
larry's Au3GUIXP is cool for almost all GUI needs, but its a pain to tweak the script to properly position the controls on the face of the GUI to make it look proper. Larry recognised it and created the GUIasst script that moved/resized controls and showed the new co-ordinates that should be put in the script.

I (being lazy) though that it'd be better if someone updated the script as well, so i made an ahk script that, once GUIasst changes the controls as reqd, updates the script automatically.

i can paste the code (and usage) in the forum if anybody is interested.
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silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Yeah, at the very worst could teach me something.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

posted it in scripts section.
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silentblood · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

Thxs, Its funny you would think making the GUI should be easy but I am having the hardist time with it.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

any specific problem?

if you're working au3guixp then the readme that comes in the .zip has enough help for beginners.
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AHKnow · Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 118

I have just started checking out GUI4Cli and was impressed. Perhaps begging the author, dck@hol.gr , might have some effect on him. Perhaps he could do something different for AutoHotkey. There are also modules for interfacing with other languages and they have done so for Python and Ruby.

Another thing about GUI complexity.... It seems to be in terms of linking the buttons to actions. Cyberslug's AutoIt Autobuilder for the GUI is quite good and coming along. So you then save the commands of the "built GUI" and then its time to make it do something useful. That's where the problems come in... Syntax issues, etc... It seems that the focus, when coming up with the GUI syntax, should be more on simplifying the process of what the GUI will do as oppose to just making the GUI. Tools like Autobuilder will allow you to visualize and simply make the GUI look the way you want, but the point is to get it to DO what you want too and make that process easy too.