Dynamic reading of input box, but when in focus

[momitty]

I have two input boxes. Let's just say Input A and Input B. 95% of the time Input B will be identical to Input A except it will have a small piece appended to it.

For example, I might append "_World" on to anything typed into A and store it in B:

Input A = Hello

Input B = Hello_World

or

Input A = Goodbye

Input B = Goodbye_World

But... I want to be able to change Input B (like override the value).

So... when I type in Input A (when it's focused) I want the data to automatically start populating Input B (concatinated with my suffix), but then if I move to Input B I want to be able to type something in there and not have Input A overwrite it unless I go back to Input A and start typing again.

Any Ideas? In the GUI control loop I can have something in there that just keeps reading A continuously, but it would constantly overwrite B.

[SlimShady]

I tried to make a script. But it seems that no message is sent to GUIGetMsg() if a character is typed.

And I thought it did

[Ejoc]

capture keystroke's while it has focus?

/shiver I dont want to touch that with a 10' pole

[GaryFrost]

Not pretty but it works. Or at least may point you in the direction your looking for.

#include <GuiConstants.au3>

GuiCreate("MyGUI", 392, 322)

$Input_A = GuiCtrlCreateInput("", 30, 10, 120, 40)
$Input_B = GuiCtrlCreateInput("", 30, 70, 120, 40)
$olda = ""
GuiSetState()
While 1
    $msg = GuiGetMsg()
    if(ControlGetFocus("MyGUI") == "Edit1") Then
        If(GUICtrlRead($Input_A) <> $olda) then
            $olda = GUICtrlRead($Input_A)
            GUICtrlSetData($Input_B,$olda)
            
        EndIf
    EndIf
    Select
    Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        ExitLoop
    EndSelect
WEnd
Exit

Edited April 6, 2005 by gafrost

[momitty]

Okay, here's how I acomplished it.... but i'm not 100% satisfied.

I first of all made my GUI. Then I used the AutoIt Info window. I selected the Input_A box for edit. And grabbed the class name. Then at the top of the control loop I check to see if that ClassName is in focus for the title of my window. This doesn't seem very flexible to me though. If that edit box gets moved around it might not be "Edit1" anymore. Once this project gets more complex it might become "Edit23" or move around as I add more fields. So each time, I'll have verify the class name with the Infowindow. I'll probably also want to add something to my If statement to make sure this window is in focus.

Does anybody have any improvements on this?

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

;basic gui with two input fields
GUICreate("My GUI")
$Input_A = GuiCtrlCreateInput("", 30, 30, 130, 20)
$Input_B = GuiCtrlCreateInput("", 30, 70, 130, 20)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)  ; will display an empty dialog box


; Control Loop
While 1
    
; Continuosly watch the Input_A box for changes if it is in focus.  
; otherwise, ignore it
; Edit1 was obtained by using the AutoIt Window Info Tool. 
    If(ControlGetFocus ( "My GUI" ) == "Edit1") Then GuiCtrlSetData($Input_B, GuiCtrlRead($Input_A))
    
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
        
Wend

Hopefully someday AutoIt will have onfocus and onblur like Javascript does. I'd like to capture the data onblur actually.

Thanks!

[GaryFrost]

If your only need to change inputb when inputa changes I would'nt worry about if it has focus or not, then you won't need to worry about what the classname is

As to the window having focus or not you might try WinGetState

Edited April 6, 2005 by gafrost

[momitty]

If I don't check for focus it continously updates. Which isn't a problem until I try to type into Input B... it won't let you really type anything into it because A keeps overwriting it. I tried it without checking for focus first just to see what would happen.

[GaryFrost]

Looking back at my 1st reply, you'll see I store inputa in a variable and check to see if inputa equals the variable.

[zcoacoaz]

download my Title Changer program from http://www.autoitscript.com/fileman/users/public/Xenogis/ and look at how i dynamicly change window titles that might help

[RocTx]

I think burrup came up with this script that does what you want to do.

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("Test")

$test1 = GUICtrlCreateInput ( "0000", 2, 2,40,-1,$ES_NUMBER)
$test2 = GUICtrlCreateInput ( "This is a test", 2, 30,70,-1)

$test3 = GUICtrlCreateLabel ( "text", 100, 2, 100, -1)

GUISetState()

$changed = GUICtrlRead ($test3)

While 1
   $msg = GUIGetMsg()
   If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
   If GUICtrlRead ($test1) > 9999 Then
      GUICtrlSetData ($test1, "9999")
   EndIf
   If $changed <> GUICtrlRead ($test1) & " - " & GUICtrlRead ($test2) Then
      GUICtrlSetData ($test3, GUICtrlRead ($test1) & " - " & GUICtrlRead ($test2))
   EndIf
   $changed = GUICtrlRead ($test3)
Wend

I can't remember the thread/link to the original post.

Burrup... this is correct no? Your code?

RocTx

[momitty]

Thanks for your help guys. I have it working.