*solved* Child Window not as responsive as I would like.

[Brandan]

I have a GUI that works with a database. Once in a while I need to look up a rowid and have been dedacating part of the window to do that. My pages are getting too full and I want to move that to a floating toolbar or child window of somesort. I have set up such a window and it works as expected, except the toolbar window is not very responsive to mouse clicks.I have several input boxs on the child window, sometimes it works smoothly, but most of the time I need to click 5+ times before the input that I want becomes active and I can type in what I want. I have been finding it faster to just use the tab button to move the select where I want it, which in this case is not as handy as I would like. While the child window is giving me problems the main window is as responcive as I normally expect from an AutoIT GUI. Any ideas what I am doing wrong or how I can make the child more responsive to my wishes? Below is a sample script riped from my project to display the problem. Just try clicking on the various inputs and you should see what I am talking about.

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#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)  ; Change to OnEvent mode
$mainwindow = GUICreate ( "BTCattle---Intro" , IniRead ( "pref.ini", "GUI", "SizeX", "1280" ),IniRead ( "pref.ini", "GUI", "SizeY", "800" )) ;Creat the page
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "CLOSEClicked")
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 1) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  $UIDBtag=GUICtrlCreateInput("",115,1,150,IniRead ( "pref.ini", "GUI", "Fontsize", "10" )+10)
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 2) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  $UIDCalfN=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDOByear=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDOB=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDSortDOB=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDamtag=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDamUID=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  GUICtrlSetOnEvent(GUICtrlCreateButton("Find Animal", -1, 0,200,$GUI_SS_DEFAULT_BUTTON),"UIDfind") 
 
$selectwindow=GUICreate ( "Select Cow" , 300, 400, 1100, 300, -1, $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW, $mainwindow ) ;create toolwindow
;First Colum
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 1) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('Select Btag like %a%',1,5,150,IniRead ( "pref.ini", "GUI", "Fontsize", "10" )+10)
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 2) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('CalfN like %a%',-1,0)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('Year of birth "2012"',-1,0)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('DOB "1/5/2012"',-1,0)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('SortDOB ',-1,0)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('Dam',-1,0)
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('DamUID',-1,0)
  GUICtrlSetOnEvent(GUICtrlCreateButton("Find Animal", -1, 0,200,$GUI_SS_DEFAULT_BUTTON),"UIDfind")
  GUICtrlCreateLabel ('UID',-1,0)
  $UIDUIDlist = GUICtrlCreateList("UID", -1, 0,75,200)
  GUICtrlSetOnEvent($UIDUIDlist,'UIDUIDlist')
 
  ;Second Colum
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 1) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  $UIDBtag=GUICtrlCreateInput("",115,1,150,IniRead ( "pref.ini", "GUI", "Fontsize", "10" )+10)
  Opt("GUICoordMode", 2) ;1=absolute, 0=relative, 2=cell
  $UIDCalfN=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDOByear=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDOB=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDSortDOB=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDamtag=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
  $UIDDamUID=GUICtrlCreateInput("",-1,0)
 
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
GUISwitch($mainwindow)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

Func CLOSEClicked()
    Exit
EndFunc
While 1
  Sleep(10000)  ; Idle around
WEnd

Edited November 10, 2012 by Brandan

[Melba23]

Brandan,

The problem is that the labels in the child GUI are overlapping the inputs - in that case when you click on the overlapping part AutoIt does not know which control you are trying to action and so it actions neither. You can show this by clicking on the centre or extreme right of the child GUI inputs - this selects them immediately - where as clicking on the extreme left does not.

Just change the width of the first child GUI label to 110 and the inputs then work across their whole width.

M23

P.S. You do realise you have the same names for the inputs in the main and child GUIs? That could pose problems when you try to read them.

[Brandan]

Thanks Melba, I figured I was likely over looking something easy