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[Chris]

It's certainly a good idea to have an "extra style" option that will accept any allowed API value. But lets say a control has 3 styles that are used 90% of the time and 10 styles that are used only 10% of the time. Having mneumonic option letters for those 3 seems easier to document, learn, and remember. One example of this is Progress/SplashImage 'B' option: B is borderless, B1 is a thin border, and B2 is a thick border. Each of these corresponds to an internally-used window style number.

But since I haven't actually studied the control styles yet, this is all hypothetical. It might become obvious that explicit style numbers are the way to go even though you must add together yourself or use EnvAdd before applying them to a control.

[Chris]

The GUI test version is available here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=748

[Rajat]

Here are some remarks and questions:

-> its great to see that it supports .gif files ... i thought only .bmp will be supported but this will help decrease distribution size.

->In Sinple Inputbox.ahk, if i change this line:
gui, show, x200 y200, Simple Input Example
to:
gui, show
then the box starts showing at random positions instead of centering on screen.

-> is the current selection available in some variable for lists and combos before form submission (just curious)? i tried adding %vmylist% to relevant tooltip but it didn't work.

-> how do i switch b/w word-wrap and non word-wrap for text box?

-> why does the new line require `r`n?

->This issue was also raised in au3 forum, Larry's au3guixp had the feature of making one button (preferabley OK) react to Enter key and another (preferably Cancel) to Escape key. And i've never tried it but it had a third control react to F1 key too. This should be supported in AHK GUI too. Though it can be done by a hotkey function checking the active app, but its a lengthy approach for every GUI.

This is a list of items au3's gui supports (i don't have the latest download but this is what it did when i downloaded last), i've checked what i could find already supported in ahk gui... please do update it:
label x
button x
group x
checkbox
radio
combo x
list x
pic x
background pic
icon
edit x
input x
date
progress
avi
tab

Final Note: It looks very good Chris! kudos to you!
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[Rajat]

and how do i make something happen when the X is pressed, just like these:
FileExit:
ButtonCancel: ; i.e. both this label and the above will run this subroutine.
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[Rajat]

as u see the font here is cut at the bottom of 'g' (no other control is overlayed)


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[Chris]

[Chris]

I forgot to include the checkbox in either of the examples. I've updated the example with one:

gui, add, checkbox, vMyCheckbox, Sample checkbox

The variable will contain 0 if unchecked or 1 if checked.

[beardboy]

Quick question, I noticed with edit, editarea you can specify a default value, can this be added to checkbox? I thought at first that if I put in a comma and a 0 or a 1 it would do it, but that adds to the name label of the checkbox.

thanks,
beardboy

[Chris]

That's another oversight, thanks. Until an option letter is assigned to that, you could use "Control, check,, Sample checkbox, GUI Demo" -- where Sample checkbox is the text of the checkbox.

[Rajat]

[Chris]

[Rajat]

never mind! i saw the problem...it needed to be editarea instead of edit.

by the way can the nomenclature be changed to edit and input?
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[Chris]

It seemed to me that Edit and EditArea were easier to remember (EditArea was inspired by the TextArea name used by HTML). Is there anything particular about "Input" that would make it a better choice?

[Rajat]

well firstly the input field is like the inputbox's entry field. and the Edit(area) is known as Edit everywhere (for instance window spy, though it calls the input field 'edit' too).

and the established nomenclature (if it matters to you) by au3 is the same so users who would switch languages will have initial difficulties.

also, the established name for 'text' control is 'label', and its not called so just by au3 but also by all related tools like Resource Hacker or ExeTools.

to know the established nomenclature of controls open windows calculator (just an example) in resource hacker (if my memory serves me well u've it, right?) and open any dialog from left field and right click the dialog and select 'insert control'. (not many ppl know that they can put their own pic or name etc. on application dialogs by this method!!)
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[Chris]