[Resolved] debugging multiple GUI form loads

[xeroTechnologiesLLC]

Is there a way to verify what form as control when you click a button, or menu item, to load another gui form?

I have a program that the load gui2 function was working perfectly fine last week before I made some additions to the way the menu dynamically resized (didn't change any of the form names or GUI calls), but now when I click the menu item to load gui2, the function runs to fill a tree view full of data but the form will not accept the close operations, esc key, clicking the X or clicking a button designed for close.

Code I have tried so far:

Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $hButton_Kill
     ExitLoop

Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $hButton_Kill
     GUICtrlDelete($hGUI_Add)
     ExitLoop

I even tried simply hiding it and not even exiting the loop, but that doesn't work either.

My theory is that the control isn't being issued to the new window correctly. Or something else is happening I am just not familiar with, being extremely new to AutoIT.

Any insight on the issue would be greatly appreciated.

Below is the call for it:

Case $MenuItem75, $MenuItem76, $MenuItem77, $MenuItem78, $MenuItem79, $MenuItem80, $MenuItem81, $MenuItem82, $MenuItem84, $menuitem88
    GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE, $FRMtoolbox)
    _Add_User_Items("UserMenu")
    GUISetState(@SW_ENABLE, $FRMtoolbox)

And the function itself, provided by Melba; edited for use for this project:

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Func _Add_User_Items($sText)
  ; Create child GUI
  $hGUI_Add = GUICreate("Add Items", 400, 400, 50, -1, -1, $WS_EX_MDICHILD, $FRMtoolbox)
  ; Create a treeview
  GUICtrlCreateLabel("", 10, 10, 200, 380, $SS_BLACKFRAME)
  GUICtrlSetState(-1, $GUI_Enable)
  $hTreeView = GUICtrlCreateTreeView(20, 20, 180, 380);, $WS_BORDER)
  $hTV_Item = $hTreeView
  ; Fill the treeview with the menu structure
  _Fill_TV($hTreeView, $sText)
  ; Create other controls
  GUICtrlCreateLabel("Enter menu item text", 220, 10, 160, 20)
  $hInput_Item = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 220, 40, 160, 20)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel("Enter link", 220, 80, 160, 20)
  $hInput_Link = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 220, 100, 160, 20)
  $hButton_Addition = GUICtrlCreateButton("Add to menu", 310, 150, 80, 30)
  $hButton_Kill = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 310, 185, 80, 30)
  $nMsgAUItems = GUISetState()
  While 1
   Switch $nMsgAUItems
    Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $hButton_Kill
     GUICtrlDelete($hGUI_Add)
     ExitLoop
    Case $hButton_Addition
     ; Do we have user input
     If GUICtrlRead($hInput_Item) <> "" And GUICtrlRead($hInput_Link) <> "" Then
      ; Read the selected menu from teh treeview
      $sSection = StringReplace(_GUICtrlTreeView_GetText($hTreeView, GUICtrlRead($hTreeView)), " ", "_")
      ; Get the item count
      $aItems = IniReadSection($sIni, $sSection)
      $iIndex = $aItems[0][0] + 1
      ; Write the new item
      $sItem = StringReplace(GUICtrlRead($hInput_Item), " ", "_")
      IniWrite($sIni, $sSection, "Item" & $iIndex, $sItem)
      ; Write the link
      IniWrite($sIni, "Links", $sItem, GUICtrlRead($hInput_Link))
      ; Delete GUI
      GUIDelete($hGUI_Add)
      ; Delete all the user menus
      For $i = $aUserItems[0] To $aUserItems[1]
       GUICtrlDelete($i)
      Next
      ; Reset menu
      $aUserItems = _Fill_Menu(0, "UserMenu")
      ExitLoop
      _GUICtrlMenu_DrawMenuBar($FRMtoolbox)
     EndIf
   EndSwitch
  WEnd
EndFunc   ;==>_Add_User_Items

Thanks in advance for any points of view on the matter. As always, it is much appreciated.

Edited April 7, 2012 by xeroTechnologiesLLC

[xeroTechnologiesLLC]

It seems that something is wrong in the While loop.

I put in a message box on the first line before the while loop and the first line after.

The one before - I could click ok and it would go away.

The one after - I could click ok but nothing would happen.

Thoughts?

While 1
MsgBox(0, "", "win")  ; <-- shows but unable to control.
   Switch $nMsgAUItems
    Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $hButton_Kill
     GUICtrlDelete($hGUI_Add)
     ExitLoop
    Case $hButton_Addition
     ; Do we have user input
     If GUICtrlRead($hInput_Item) <> "" And GUICtrlRead($hInput_Link) <> "" Then
      ; Read the selected menu from teh treeview
      $sSection = StringReplace(_GUICtrlTreeView_GetText($hTreeView, GUICtrlRead($hTreeView)), " ", "_")
      ; Get the item count
      $aItems = IniReadSection($sIni, $sSection)
      $iIndex = $aItems[0][0] + 1
      ; Write the new item
      $sItem = StringReplace(GUICtrlRead($hInput_Item), " ", "_")
      IniWrite($sIni, $sSection, "Item" & $iIndex, $sItem)
      ; Write the link
      IniWrite($sIni, "Links", $sItem, GUICtrlRead($hInput_Link))
      ExitLoop
      _GUICtrlMenu_DrawMenuBar($FRMtoolbox)
     EndIf
   EndSwitch
  WEnd

[xeroTechnologiesLLC]

So I figured out what the error was on the control of the GUI form:

The following lines of code were just...wrong...above apparently:

GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
  While 1
   $nMsgAUItems = GUIGetMsg()
   Switch $nMsgAUItems

This inside the function.

Next is to figure out why the main menu bar isn't refreshing the way it's supposed to based on this code:

; Delete all the user menus
  For $i = $aUserItems[0] To $aUserItems[1]
   GUICtrlDelete($i)
  Next
  ; Reset menu
  $aUserItems = _Fill_Menu(0, "UserMenu")