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Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

Some ppl might already know this, but many would not.

the Au3GUIXP made by Larry, unlike his AutGUI for AU2 (which worked only with Au2), can be used with AutoHotKey to create great looking GUIs. Combined with the new Menu command in AHK in last version, one can create some very nice scripts.
(Thanx Chris & Larry)

a sample basic GUI script that also sends its output to a .ini file is given below. (run this script from the folder which has Au3GUIXP)

dil · Guest

hi , great stuff you have here
im stuck with one problem , when using combo boxes

if on a window with a multiple of controls you select something on a combo box then save and exit,
the new selected values get written in the ini.

run the script again and change something on another control without touching the first combo box, you lose everything in gui.ini

i've tried all sort (to the best of my ability, im fairly new)
like, changing action=9 to different values,reading the ini when loading,load to variables then rewriting it again,with no luck.

any suggestions?

more scripts like this one please.
thanks

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

its easy....if u want the values to stay in the .ini and want the new ones in a new file then change the statement '|file=GUI.ini' to maybe '|file=GUI1.ini' or something.

but maybe if u want to have that value in a script then just after the code above do this:

dil · Guest

thanks for your help,
though this works,it involves a lot of ini reading and writing,i wondered
if i could use action=4

Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

well u've got a good question there... i tried it and had the same result as u did.

i'm not a pro at au3guixp either. its just that i shared an example GUI that might give new possibilities to AHK users.

well i guess larry might have an answer to that. u might try asking him at AU2 forum. www.hiddensoft.com/forum

he'll be glad and quick to help and will offer the best help u'll get on this subject... after all, he's coded it!!

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

forgot logging on... the above post was by me.

i think ur question is already replied here:

http://www.hiddensoft.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1965&hl=
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Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

Chris this is an example of a case where envget is reqd (see link above).
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Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10464

I browsed that topic but the need for EnvGet didn't jump out at me. Note that you can force an EnvGet using this example:

MyEnvVar = ; Make the script's own variable blank.
MyEnvVar = %MyEnvVar% ; Fetch the environment var into a script var.

If you still feel there's a need for EnvGet maybe you can give an example to illustrate.

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

Chris, first of all Thanx for the new version!... and sorry for not being specific about this reference... look at pg 2 (the same post) where the question is regarding working of 'action = 4' (probably 8th msg on the page)
and i tried this to get it done in AHK as u suggested.... it didn't work.

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

Your code works for me if I comment out the "runwait,au3guixp" line (I don't have au3guixp installed). Can you think of any explanation for this?

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

to make things clear, this script (when running correctly) should return the text of the selection made in gui like Selection1 or Selection2, and not the OBJ# definition that's given in script.
u can try running the code examples (AU3) given by Larry on the above link to see what i mean.

now Chris maybe u should make a download of au3guixp... Smile

its just ~26 kb download and all it requires it extracting the exe file to script's folder.
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dil · Guest

wow, looks like i've started something here,
still none the wiser, i'll let the pros sort this one out and wait till you guys find a solution.

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

I tried your code with both AutoIt2 and AutoIt3 and I get the same result as AutoHotkey. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but if not it seems that Au3GuiXP's env. variables aren't being set or are lost before they can be retrieved by the script.

Here's the au3 version:

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

there r 2 code examples posted by larry... (i've tested both) one requires the script to be in compiled form (process requirement) and other as itself starting a new process so passes the correct info.

this passes the selection to a new process (can be run as script)

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1717

this is what's really happening:
script creates obj definition -> available to au3guixp
au3guixp puts something in OBJ# var -> available to only the processes started by it.

this is something we do all the time when we use cmds in scripts like '%comspec% /c start %document%' (other processes don't know what's %document% is, but this instance of %comspec% does) i'm sorry if i don't make sense to someone... a bit technical, but i know i'm mostly right here.

but this discussion has unduly lengthened... so for me... this particular point ends here.... i'm still sticking with .ini method, it works and i'm content with it.
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