Note the following correction to the OP’s code: + ; Because the powers that be refuse to permit constants + global ADS_SECURITY_INFO_DACL := 4 ⋮ + ; Only update the DACL, otherwise it will try to change the ownership! + sdutil.SecurityMask := ADS_SECURITY_INFO_DACL sdutil.SetSecurityDescriptor(File,...

1. When compiling there were often transient file errors when trying to create the .exe. (I keep my sources in a Dropbox folder.) There errors do not occur with the standard version. (I believe that the file handling and error checking in the standard version was greatly enhanced after the fork for...

I wouldn't suggest using old syntax for a new feature.

Emulating the v1 GUI was, IMO, a huge mistake. My Windows software is all developed on an antique copy of REALbasic on a PPC Mac. REALbasic was advertised as "cross-platform that really works". While the interface builder does have fairly useful snapping (including text baseline, spacing etc), Mac O...

Well, here goes nothing …

I decided against necroposting in the v2 GUI thread, and decided to post here instead. Judging by what's been said so far, it appears that the new API will still involve physical control positioning. Does anyone besides me see any value in having some sort of more intelligent layout? For example, if...

It would be useful to have constants. They're an indication to the reader that the value specified won't change, cannot change and is not intended to change, and will prevent inadvertent reassignments. I'd also like to see the ability to refactor details such as program name, version, copyright into...

[...]define k_APPNAME "7-ade"[...] That looks like a c-style definition which is usually more on the compiler side than it is on the "script" part. I imagine ahk2exe could have something like ;@Ahk2Exe-Define MY_CONSTANT "some text and numbers. 1234567890" . If you define the constants inside ahk2e...

In the help file, under GUI → Positioning and Layout via SmartGUI Creator, there is a link to www.autohotkey.com/docs/SmartGUI/ — all this does is bring up a Google search for SmartGUI, which refers you back to the page that refers to you to Google, in a loop (and a link to the online docs, for a sl...

Another thing I noticed — there are no constants in AutoHotkey. This isn't unique to AHK — they're also missing from JavaScript and CSS. Constants have that nice semantic that the reader knows that the value specified will not change, cannot change, and is not intended to change. It also prevents ac...

I'm just throwing this out there to gauge opinion, as I'm not wholly certain of its merits yet. I'm contemplating whether it would make sense to indicate the target detail. ;@Ahk2Exe-Base base-name ;@Ahk2Exe-OutputDir target-dir Where the output directory is relative to the script. This way, you cou...

The alignment I seek is baseline . For multi-line controls, the baseline position is that of the first line of text, which should align with the baseline of the caption (or the caption's first line, should it wrap). For labels, baseline is trivial. For box controls (text, list etc) the baseline posi...

Looking around, it seems that the conventional approach to AutoHotkey GUIs is to hard-code all control sizes and positions and ignore concerns over DPI, language and system font. Web searches for simple concepts like making all control captions the same width, making a control caption the same heigh...