Is it possible to Fold/Unfold a portion of the GUI?

[careca]

Hi, i would like to be able to fold part of the GUI, say you have a gui, and half of it is a listview, and then you want to hide the listview, but don't want to have the frame showing up, with a translucent rectangle right? see the problem?

[water]

I think Melba's is what you are looking for.

[careca]

I'll check that, thank you, it didn't come up in the search :

[water]

I haven't used it myself but I remembered that there was such an animal around

[careca]

Found it, and discovered the bit i need, but now i got a problem, i want to hide the equivalent to the middle section in this code:

Only the middle, and i don't quite understand how this works, can anyone explain how it works?

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

#include "GUIExtender.au3"

Opt("GUIOnEventMode", 1)

$hGUI_1 = GUICreate("Vertical", 300, 250, 100, 100)
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "On_Exit")

_GUIExtender_Init($hGUI_1)

_GUIExtender_Section_Start($hGUI_1, 0, 120)
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", 10, 2, 280, 68)
_GUIExtender_Section_Action($hGUI_1, 2, "", "", 270, 40, 15, 15, 0, 1) ; Normal button
_GUIExtender_Section_End($hGUI_1)

_GUIExtender_Section_Start($hGUI_1, 120, 180)
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", 10, 78, 280, 80)
_GUIExtender_Section_End($hGUI_1)

_GUIExtender_Section_Start($hGUI_1, 180, 240)
GUICtrlCreateGroup("", 10, 162, 280, 80)
_GUIExtender_Section_End($hGUI_1)

_GUIExtender_Section_Extend($hGUI_1, 4, False)

GUISetState()

While 1
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Func On_Exit()
    Exit
EndFunc

[BrewManNH]

See my script in the Example scripts section, it uses the GUIextender function for it. There's a section of the GUI below the buttons and above the bottom label that can be extended and shrunk, it might give you some ideas.

[careca]

Hi, thanks, tried it, there was a problem, got 6 errors right away, most are "wrong number of arguments"

[BrewManNH]

6 errors with what? Not my script because it doesn't error out for me on several different computers.

[careca]

Well, maybe because i got the newer version of GUIExtender, it complains that there is a missing paramenter.

You don't have what is in bold.

_GUIExtender_Section_Start($hGUI_1, 120, 180)

[BrewManNH]

I am using the original version he posted, there's a link to it inside the script for Latin Square. If you need to use the newer version, I'm sure it's probably a bit of a change, but using the original one for a single GUI worked for me.

EDIT: From looking at the thread for the new version, it looks like all you need to do is change the parameters that call the GUI Extender functions to include the GUI ID.

 

The UDF functions have not changed, but most of them now require the GUI handle as an additional parameter. When required, this is always placed first, with the subsequent parameters remaining as they were for the original UDF. So in fact amending current scripts is pretty simple.

The only UDF function with a changed functionality is _GUIExtender_Clear. This now removes the relevant GUI from the UDF array to save memory and is, of course, no longer required before using _GUIExtender_Init on another GUI.

Edited May 12, 2013 by BrewManNH

[careca]

Ok, i see, but looking at your script, i can't figure out how it is done, seen examples of guiextender that are somewhat smaller, checked the syntax, but still can't get it.

[Melba23]

careca,
 
I have answered here.

M23

[Tacomas]

I did the same in my first AutoIt script. It works very fine but might not be the best way to do it.

Func _ShowOpts($show)
    Local $arrMainPos = WinGetPos($hGuiMain)

    If $show Then
        WinMove($hGuiMain, "", Default, $arrMainPos[1], Default, $arrMainPos[3] + 165)
        GUICtrlSetState($grpOpts, $GUI_SHOW)
        ; .... more controls to show
    Else
        WinMove($hGuiMain, "", Default, $arrMainPos[1], Default, $arrMainPos[3] - 165)
        GUICtrlSetState($grpOpts, $GUI_HIDE)
        ; .... more controls to hide
    EndIf
EndFunc ;==>_ShowOpts

By pushing a button the GUI is vertically enlarged and reveals additional controls. Pushing the button again hides the previously shown controls and reduces the GUI size.

/EDIT added proper code tag for code section

Edited May 23, 2013 by Tacomas

[careca]

Nice, and nice first post! Would be even better if you added some autoit tags, that now aren't really tags,

the way it works is that you press the A icon, under the smiley, and put the code there, it will become better.

EDIT: the main difference from your code to the extender, is that the extender doesn't change the controls,

they remain the same size and position, only the gui is cut, or added, whereas with your code, controls change size and position.

Edited May 22, 2013 by careca

[Melba23]

Tacomas,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

You will not be surprised to hear that the GUIExtender UDF works essentially the same way.  The main difference is that it moves the controls outside the GUI so that there is no overlap problem when sections move into the place previosuly occupied by another.  Do take a look inside the code and see how it works.  

M23

[Tacomas]

Thanks for the warm welcome careca and Melba23. Sorry for the bad formatting of my post. I looked for a code tag when writing my post but somehow overlooked this icon. I'm really bad at identifying icons. My code doesn't change the size or the position of the controls, it just hides them. I will have a look at Melba's solution. I'm always interested to learn something new.

Edited May 23, 2013 by Tacomas