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Clearing an edit box?

 
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planetthoughtful



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Posts: 24
PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:39 pm    Post subject: Clearing an edit box? Reply with quote
Hello All,

As per other posts, I'm new to GUI design in AutoHotkey. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how I clear the contents of an edit box?

I've tried the following, but it doesn't seem to work:

GuiControl,,Subject,

Where 'Subject' is the name of the control...

Is there some other syntax that will let me clear an edit box in an AutoHotkey Gui?

Much warmth,

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Titan



Joined: 11 Aug 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Are you sure the control has the variable name 'Subject'? e.g. Gui, Add, Edit, vSubject

The method you're using appears to be valid so I cannot find a reason for why it's not working. Try the following to see if it works:
Code:
Gui, Add, Edit, vSubject Multi r5 w400, this is some text
Gui, Add, Button, gClear, Clear Text
Gui, Show
Return

Clear:
GuiControl, , Subject
Return

GuiClose:
ExitApp

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skwire



Joined: 18 Jan 2006
Posts: 172
Location: Conway, Arkansas
PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I clear edit boxes using ControlSetText and the default control names:

Code:
ControlSetText, Edit1,
ControlSetText, Edit2,
ControlSetText, Edit3,


et al...

You can easily use an array to blank out a bunch of them:

Code:
EditBoxes = Edit1|Edit2|Edit3|Edit4|Edit5|Edit6|Edit7
StringSplit, EditBoxes_Array, EditBoxes, |
Loop, %EditBoxes_Array0%
{
    GetEditBoxName := EditBoxes_Array%a_index%
    ControlSetText, %GetEditBoxName%,
}
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yellowsix



Joined: 17 Nov 2006
Posts: 6
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I discovered that GuiControl will somehow only work on the default gui.
So if you have multiple gui windows, you should do something like:

Gui,1:Default
GuiControl,,Subject,
Gui,2:Default

Maybe this thing is 'fixed' in a newer version then mine.

Yellowsix
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sugardaddy



Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Posts: 26
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Code:
GuiControl, 2:, FRMtextBox, %strOut%

This works, but it appends to what's there. I'm still trying to find out how to clear it and then fill it.
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Lexikos



Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Posts: 2733
Location: Australia, Qld
PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
sugardaddy wrote:
Code:
GuiControl, 2:, FRMtextBox, %strOut%

This works, but it appends to what's there. I'm still trying to find out how to clear it and then fill it.
Are you sure you aren't appending to strOut? If I try:
Code:
GuiControl, 1:, MyEdit, %foo%
it replaces the existing text.
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sugardaddy



Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Tue May 29, 2007 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
After further review, it was other code that was the issue.

It is, in fact, replacing what is there. So I no longer have an issue.
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