A container for controls

[rossati]

Hello

I am searching a container for controls in order to destroy, in one fell swoop, many controls.

A candidate, apart a new window, could be the tab control but he is not completely adaptable:

• it is not possible eliminate a tab description,
• I am not able to set the background colour.

En passant how I can know the GUI background colour i.e. there is not the function GUIGetBkColor.

Thanks

John Rossati

[BrewManNH]

To get the background color of a GUI, you will have to use something like PixelGetColor, there's no native function that retrieves it.

[AdmiralAlkex]

You could put the control ids in a array and then loop through it and delete everything.

[rossati]

Thanks to all

An Id array is what I handle actually, the tab would be very good, it can be deleted with all inside controls, but a tab item control without text drafts a rectangle but don't host controls inside.

John Rossati

[JLogan3o13]

You could put the control ids in a array and then loop through it and delete everything.

I was thinking along the same lines. Couldn't you put the ids in the array, and then just do $aArray = 0 to kill the whole thing?

[AdmiralAlkex]

I was thinking along the same lines. Couldn't you put the ids in the array, and then just do $aArray = 0 to kill the whole thing?

After looping through it with GUICtrlDelete() first ofc.

[BrewManNH]

I was thinking along the same lines. Couldn't you put the ids in the array, and then just do $aArray = 0 to kill the whole thing?

All that would do is delete all references to the controls, it won't delete the controls themself, they'll still be there.

[rossati]

I am working on a new Window, but it seems me there are a lot of problems, first I can create a new window, but it seems that GUISwitch does not work, i.e. the handle returned from _WinAPI_CreateWindowEx is not the same type of the handle returned from GUICreate:

$iStyle = $WS_POPUP

$sClass = "Autoit v3 GUI"

$sName = ""

$iX = 110

$iY = 140

$iWidth = 200

$iHeight = 200

$hw = _WinAPI_CreateWindowEx($iExStyle, $sClass, $sName, $iStyle, $iX, $iY, $iWidth, $iHeight, $hWind)

GUISwitch($hw)

So I can't add widgets, set background color etc.

John Rossati

[AdmiralAlkex]

GUI*() functions work on other GUI*() functions. AutoIt doesn't know about anything outside what it itself created. If you create UDF controls/windows, you'll have to continue and use UDF functions to work with them.

But why are you even using _WinAPI_CreateWindowEx() here and throwing away all the niceties AutoIt provide? I mean, it's not like GUICreate() can't use $WS_POPUP.

[rossati]

Thanks AdmiralAlkex

You got me a solution: a child GUI.

My problem is to drop a lot of controls (for compact my form generator), and a child which can be 'camouflaged ' in another GUI is a solution.

John Rossati