Modifying a GUI control from a different script

[Yelseppi]

Hi,

I have trawled the internet and the available docs but cant crack the code and am pulling my hair out. I'll be bald soon anyway, so help is needed to preserve what I have left.

I have a GUI set up via 'Gui, CleverGUI: Add' that enables me to run other AHK Scripts that I have available from a specific folder via buttons (rather than navigating to the directory each time I need to run them). When I run one of the scripts, I want a text field within the GUI to receive regular updates from the second script as it runs.

The AHK that creates the CleverGUI uses:

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Gui, CleverGUI: Add, Text, x5 y30 h35 w175 Center vTextMessage, No AHK scripts running

And I am trying to modify it from the second script using:

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GuiControl, CleverGUI: ,TextMessage, Now XXXX is running.

I also tried using Edit:

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Gui, CleverGUI: Add, Edit, R20 vMyEdit

And then modifying the Edit control from the second script using:

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GuiControl, CleverGUI: ,MyEdit, Now XXX is running

Neither of these work.

The following topics exist that come really close, but can't quite get me there:

viewtopic.php?style=19&t=91878

https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/83020-solved-trouble-making-a-gui-modify-another-gui/

Please save me.

[Mod edit: Removed some wrongly applied indent tags, fixed some. They belong around some text and need an indentation level. Instead, added some [code][/code] tags.]

[Yelseppi]

On the offchance, I tried ChatGPT to help me and what do you know, it worked!

Here is the solution that I can take no credit for:

WinGet, hWnd, ID, CleverGUI
ControlSetText, % "Static1", INPUT AMENDMENT TO TEXT HERE, ahk_id %hWnd% ("Static 1" may vary depending on the order that the GUI controls were added. Windows Spy helped to get the correct one)
WinShow, ahk_id %hWnd%

It might help someone else in the future. This thread can be closed.

[mikeyww]

Hi, in some cases, the Control command works.