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Here: http://dundats.mvps.org/help/ It's also new to me. Until now I only used the Help file found when hitting the [F1] key in the SciTE Editor. Only a pity that the examples are hard to read (too small).

JamesBrooks, Together with your Avatar I could not miss the Help File

Cryoma, The symbol for comments is the semi-colon ( ; )

I agree 100%! But it's just for nostalgia reasons... Ah, there we see the good old DOS prompt!

Hmm, my idea is that you might try to write a kind of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program by scanning the pixels on the screen...

Hello everybody, This is my attempt to create an universal DOS alike Input Editor, a program I started to write end 2008. It is working well, but I have a problem with the speed settings. If typing slowly, it works well, but some people can type very fast, and then problems arise, because a key is still pressed (= not yet released) while a finger of the other hand is already pressing another key... The result is that some characters are missing. At the other side, if the speed is too high (variable $i_StdChrSpeed) repetition of characters is possible. Normally, when a key is pressed, say 'K', then another say 'E', the first key 'K' is still being captured. This means that when holding K and E pressed together a long time, you get KEKEKEKEKEK.... To solve this problem, it is necessary to be able to verify if the key K is released or not, before re-capturing it. Because the listing is very long, I have linked three files for you to download: File iops.au3 : http://www.charvi.com/au3/iops.au3 File iopsTest.au3 : http://www.charvi.com/au3/iopsTest.au3 File DOSLIKE.FON : http://www.charvi.com/au3/DOSLIKE.FON After downloading the three files, please install the DOSLIKE.FON bitmap font. Then, test iopsTest.au3, and I would like to hear suggestions from you... Thank you in advance and have fun! PS: note that NOT all characters are working, just the letters, left and right arrows, and Backspace.

Fascinating... These are those small things put together that make AutoIt so powerful. I also appreciate the caret change when toggling the Insert mode. However, the underscore's caret is an "upperscore"... I have no clue how to put it lower at this time. Perhaps like Yashied demonstrated a while ago, with a (blinking) bitmap? It must be possible anyway, because the SciTE itself does it... I'm almost ready for the 'DOS alike Input Editor'. It will be a very long code, and rather primitive, that's why I'm asking all those questions...

MrCreatoR, Thank you for your understandable explanations, and for the remark in the line GUICtrlSendMsg($input1, $EM_SETSEL, 4, 4) ;first parameter (4) is the end of selection position, and the second is the start of selection position as well for the additions about {Right 4}. I will try to use GUICtrlSendMsg() instead of Send() from now on. As you perhaps have seen in my parallel posting http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=95809 I still have a problem with Insert/Overwrite toggle method. Thanubis said there that it is not possible to get this behavior in a standard input field. Is there a workaround with GUICtrlSendMsg() or with a DLL call? Jos' example worked there because the SciTE Editor supports this toggle mode. Beside that, I also need to know in which position the Ins/Ovw is toggled (result as a Boolean value). And in an hour or three, I will post a new topic 'DOS alike Input Editor' with code that I was trying to write during the first days of this year... but abandoned because of typing problems. But it will show what I would like to obtain as a final Function.

Fascinating... You are right, I could not toggle in any program except in Word, Excel, the Command Prompt and.... the SciTE Editor!!! Perhaps this might be possible with a DLL call, but this is beyond my knowledge too. Tomorrow I will post in this forum an input editor I was trying to write in January, but gave up because of typing speed problems. If anyone is interested, please watch for the title 'DOS alike Input Editor'

Thanubis, Your idea is excellent (and approved!), but my code was just an imagined example for the Toggle Insert/Overwrite problem. That's right, DOSLike is not a standard font, and I forgot to remove it when I posted it here. Anyway, if you do not have that font, it will be ignored and I believe that "MS Sans Serif" will be used instead, which does not affect the Toggle problem (which is at this time not yet solved...).

Jos, Indeed, your example works fine, but it does not work in my script, where I would like to place the caret at the fifth position, then prompt for a number that will replace the 123-456 in the example below. Even manually hitting the Insert key seems to have no effect! (strange...) #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <EditConstants.au3> #include <WinAPI.au3> $hWnd = GUICreate("Input with caret at desired position", 350, 130) GUISetFont(14, 400, 1, "DOSLike") $btnOK = GUICtrlCreateButton("&OK", 218, 70, 80, 30, 0) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Number: ", 20, 24, 200, 20) $input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("555-123-456", 100, 22, 200, 24) GUISetState() GUICtrlSetState($input1, $GUI_FOCUS) Send("{Home}{Right}{Right}{Right}{Right}{Ins}") While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case -3, $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $btnOK Exit EndSwitch WEnd

Thank you for your reply MrCreatoR, this is indeed a good thing to know too. But what is the real difference/advantage with the use of GUICtrlSendMsg() against Send()? Your example also works with the more human-readable Send("{End}"). You told it's more reliable, does this mean that Send() is not reliable enough in some circumstances? For example, when I make an input where I'm giving the user a typing facility by locating the caret at the 5th position, I'm using the Melba23 idea (in the case a number for 95% should begin with '555-'): #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <EditConstants.au3> #include <WinAPI.au3> $hWnd = GUICreate("Input with caret at desired position", 350, 130) GUISetFont(14, 400, 1, "DOSLike") $btnOK = GUICtrlCreateButton("&OK", 218, 70, 80, 30, 0) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Number: ", 20, 24, 200, 20) $input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("555-123-456", 100, 22, 200, 24) GUISetState() GUICtrlSetState($input1, $GUI_FOCUS) Send("{Home}{Right}{Right}{Right}{Right}") While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case -3, $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $btnOK Exit EndSwitch WEnd

How do I toggle keyboard Insert and Overwrite modes? I tried the below code with no success. It always inserts characters. Send ("{Ins}") The Help seems not to provide an {Overwrite} option.... ?

Thank you Melba23 for your fast and correct answer!

When an input contains a default value, and the program focuses on that input, the value is automatically selected, so when the user begins to type, it is cleared. My question: how to remove the auto-selection? Here a simple code #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> #include <EditConstants.au3> #include <WinAPI.au3> $hWnd = GUICreate("Input without preselected input", 400, 300) GUISetFont(14, 400, 1, "DOSLike") $btnOK = GUICtrlCreateButton("&OK", 260, 248, 80, 30, 0) $input1 = GUICtrlCreateInput("Value1", 20, 24, 200, 24) $input2 = GUICtrlCreateInput("Value2", 20, 80, 200, 24) GUISetState() GUICtrlSetState($input2, $GUI_FOCUS) ; here we focus to the second input While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case -3, $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $btnOK Exit EndSwitch WEnd