Larger Input Box

[MattX]

Can someone point me in the right direction in regards to making a larger input box. [ It seems I can only get a single sentance size one ] I'm after a box that will be around 500x300 pixels [ enough to take some text which can then be copied straight into an E-mail client ] I've looked at Koda and Codewizard but can't seem to find anything suitable - would using GUICtrlCreateInput be better ?

Thanks.

[GEOSoft]

Try using an Edit control in a custom GUI instead of the input box.

Edited May 26, 2011 by GEOSoft

[MattX]

Try using an Edit control in a custom GUI instead of the input box.

Could not give me an example could you ? Or will Koda be able to do this ?

[Zedna]

Could not give me an example could you ? Or will Koda be able to do this ?

Look at GUICtrlCreateEdit(), example is in helpfile.

You can use Koda for this too, there is Edit control just next to Input control on Toolbar.

[MattX]

Look at GUICtrlCreateEdit(), example is in helpfile.

You can use Koda for this too, there is Edit control just next to Input control on Toolbar.

Thanks - I can see that and I've used Koda to create very simple GUIs before however, I am at a complete loss in regards to using Edit to create a larger input box - I'm not a coder, just a simple support guy and this has me going around in circles at the moment.

Do I have to create the edit box first and then tell it to be an input box or the other way around ? Does anyone know of a tutorial I can go through ?

Thanks.

[MattX]

Right I've made this using koda:

#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 633, 447, 192, 124)
$Edit1 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 112, 48, 393, 289)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "Edit1")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit

    EndSwitch
WEnd

But it won't wrap lines - anyone ?

Edited May 27, 2011 by MattX

[hannes08]

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$Form1 = GUICreate("Big input", 633, 447, 192, 124)
$Edit1 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 32, 24, 569, 353)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "Default text")
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("OK", 32, 400, 113, 25, $WS_GROUP)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Cancel", 480, 400, 121, 25, $WS_GROUP)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button1
            ConsoleWrite(GUICtrlRead($Edit1) & @CRLF)
        Case $Button2
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

[MattX]

Thats brilliant - is there a way of stopping setting it to automatially wrap lines ?

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

$Form1 = GUICreate("Big input", 633, 447, 192, 124)
$Edit1 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 32, 24, 569, 353)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "Default text")
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("OK", 32, 400, 113, 25, $WS_GROUP)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Cancel", 480, 400, 121, 25, $WS_GROUP)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button1
            ConsoleWrite(GUICtrlRead($Edit1) & @CRLF)
        Case $Button2
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

[MattX]

Thats brilliant - is there a way of stopping setting it to automatially wrap lines ?

Ignore - I've added the $ES_MULTILINE