Autoit-gui Max Control

[jpm 35]

What is the reasonable maximum number of control that AutoIt-gui must provide?

Today is small 100. I have no idea of the impact on the size when running a script.

Thanks to comment why the limit should such or such.

[alawoona 0]

I do not know thye answer JP - but the most controls I have used in a script was 74.

[Holger 9]

@jpm: I have a script which has between 95 and 107 controls.

The most of them are checkboxes.

It's like an software-choose-screen, there you can choose SW to delete from an preinstalled pc which has preinstalled sw on it you know.

So I don't know if 100 should be the highest control-number...

Edited March 25, 2004 by Holger

[Jon 774]

For these I always go to the nearest "binary" number and then double it.

So 107...nearest is 128 so max controls = 256.

[CyberSlug 3]

256 ought to be enough for anybody

You heard it here first. If I'm wrong, I'll take the blame

[Valik 467]

We really need some sort of generic container to store this kind of stuff internally so there doesn't need to be a limit. I did have something I was working on that allocated things in blocks to try to minimize both re-allocation and wasted space, but it was being very mean to me. It was difficult to get iterators working and they were pretty much mandatory as operator[] was unsafe. Maybe I should go back and look at it again and try to get it working...

[Nutster 2]

One of my VB students once ran into VB's limitation of 255 controls on a form. He wanted to put about 300 controls on a form. So he split it, with my recommendation, into a series of screens based on functionality, essentially a wizard.

I think a limit of 255 control would also work for AutoItGUI. It would also allow for an optimization of using 1 byte for the count/identity of controls (0-255). Of course, a window with no controls is a little boring.

[Lazycat 7]

The maximum controls I have in one script with AU3GUIXP was 232 controls - this is was 21x11 matrix of buttons + another one. This is an extremal case and I don't think I will need more, but who knows...

[jpm 35]

but who knows...

You

[Jon 774]

So, 232, nearest number is 256 = 512

[jpm 35]

So, 232, nearest number is 256 = 512

The mean of the vote as the same trend.

Did you see the colored labels?

That I think end my evolution on GUI. It will be yours soon.

[Helge 1]

Wah !