Dropdown box question

[dude101 0]

Hello all, Im new to the software and this site. I think it is awesome lol. Ive been reading the help document all day. However I have a question. I am trying to have a drop down box with a list of lets say 10 options. When the user selects from the drop down box, Whatever is selected is passed into IE and is used as the keyword in google. I have everything else down except setting up the drop down box and passing it to google. Any ideas on how to do this? Please and Thanks.

[Makaule 0]

You could use GUICtrlCreateCombo, to create drop down selection. To read selected data from combo box you could just call GuiCtrlRead and save it to some variable. For example:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)
$hwnd = GUICreate ("Web Browser", 200, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Exit")
$combo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 5, 5, 100, 20)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "item1|item2|item3", "item1")
GUICtrlSetOnEvent($combo, "_Selected")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    Sleep(50)
WEnd

Func _Selected()
    $Selection = GuiCtrlRead($combo)
    MsgBox(0, "Selection...", "Selected item: " & $Selection)
EndFunc
Func _Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

Edited May 24, 2010 by Makaule

[dude101 0]

You could use GUICtrlCreateCombo, to create drop down selection. To read selected data from combo box you could just call GuiCtrlRead and save it to some variable. For example:

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)
$hwnd = GUICreate ("Web Browser", 200, 200)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Exit")
$combo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 5, 5, 100, 20)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "item1|item2|item3", "item1")
GUICtrlSetOnEvent($combo, "_Selected")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    Sleep(50)
WEnd

Func _Selected()
    $Selection = GuiCtrlRead($combo)
    MsgBox(0, "Selection...", "Selected item: " & $Selection)
EndFunc
Func _Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

Thanks for the response. In my code I had _IENavigate($oIE,"http://resultfromdropdown.somesite.com/?q="something")

oIE is an embedded window. My question is how would i place the result returned from the dropdown to replace "resultfromdropdown

[Makaule 0]

Try this, if you change item1, item2, item3 to normal adresses, like http://www.google.com:

Func _Selected()
    $Selection = GuiCtrlRead($combo)
    _IENavigate($oIE, $Selection)
EndFunc

or

this, if you want to surf on same website, just different place, lets say place1.htm, place2.htm and etc.:

Func _Selected()
    $Selection = "http://www.something.com/" & GuiCtrlRead($combo)
    _IENavigate($oIE, $Selection)
EndFunc