The GuiBuilder Return

[DFerrato]

Hello to all.

My name is Daniel, I am original of the Argentina and 9 months ago about that development in Autoit, after having passed through other languages type Basic

I found a model of development which adapts to my tastes and I am comfortable, but my performance to generate new applications was slow due to the lack of GUI Builder.

I found a model of development which adapts to my tastes and I am comfortable, but my performance to build new applications was slow due to lack of a generator of GUI.

This situation led me to find a project open-source which adapted to my needs.

Review several of the programs appointed by TheSaint, opting to improve and complete 'GuiBuilder Resurrected' publish by baroquebob; when I did was not (or not view the GUIBuilderNxt update by jaberwacky). Below I dedicate some paragraph to this.

Also probe (and I was surprised) with Koda , but they are not open-source. (the ISN Studio is super , but very complex for my)

Well, here I leave you the link to download, I do so with the idea that you can use it, give me your opinion and help me improve it.

Equally here leave you a list of characteristics, all the changes were designed and implemented in a way that respects the job before made by CyberSlug, Roy, TheSaint and Bob ; without radical changes continuing what they started.

* New control 'Pick color'
* New properties 'Backgroud Color' and 'Style'
* New Functions Export file (.au3) and 'Test'
* Other function not finalizated.Yet
* Improve Documentation.

Wait for your comments...

 

Regards Daniel

guibuilder_0.9.3.zip

[TheSaint]

Thanks for sharing. 

 

[mLipok]

@DFerrato When you mention about @jaberwacky and his work on this project, you should could make a link to this thread:

Just as a references. EDIT: Oops Now I see you not continue @jaberwacky work, as a base to your work, you use older version

 

Edited August 11, 2016 by mLipok

[mLipok]

@DFerrato
You should start using TIDY
 

  Quote

"C:\Users\Michał\Downloads\guibuilder_0.9.3\Publicado\subrutinas\conexion_db.au3"(48,24) : error: missing separator character before keyword.
Func query($hDB,$query,byref
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
"C:\Users\Michał\Downloads\guibuilder_0.9.3\Publicado\subrutinas\conexion_db.au3"(280,21) : error: missing separator character before keyword.
func dbprep4($clave,byref
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
 

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Which AutoIt and also SciTE4AutoIt version you are usinng ?

 

[MattHiggs]

Very much like the enthusiasm resurrecting this project.  However, many of the controls are greyed out and unavailable (menu, context menu, updown, and tab).  Why is this?  Also, I didn't see a button for "label" control anywhere

[DFerrato]

  On 8/11/2016 at 8:33 PM, mLipok said:

@DFerrato
You should start using TIDY
 

Which AutoIt and also SciTE4AutoIt version you are usinng ?

 

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Hello

I used autoit version v3.3.10.2.

All file is using UTF-8.

I check, the code and warning

[mLipok]

I mean that:
this line:

Func query($hDB,$query,ByRef $result)

Should look like:

Func query($hDB, $query, ByRef $result)

I also mean that I guest You are using SciTE Lite.

Please try to download:
https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-script-editor/downloads/

 

[DFerrato]

  On 8/11/2016 at 8:33 PM, mLipok said:

@DFerrato
You should start using TIDY
 

Which AutoIt and also SciTE4AutoIt version you are usinng ?

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Thanks @mLipok for your sugerence, the start from TiDy.

In routine "C:\Users\Michał\Downloads\guibuilder_0.9.3\Publicado\subrutinas\conexion_db.au3" lines 48 and 240 trail of replace ,byref for ", byref" , Should work well .

And yes im used "SciTE-Lite Version 3.3.6  by Neil Hodgson. " Updated by Jos for autoit, thanks for your sugerence..

Regards

[DFerrato]

  On 8/11/2016 at 9:57 PM, MattHiggs said:

Very much like the enthusiasm resurrecting this project.  However, many of the controls are greyed out and unavailable (menu, context menu, updown, and tab).  Why is this?  Also, I didn't see a button for "label" control anywhere

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MattHiggs, is because even lacks work..

If you want these invited to complete the unfinished controls. For me it is important to have a program adapted to the needs of each one of us.

Regards daniel

[argumentum]

  On 8/11/2016 at 2:34 PM, DFerrato said:

* New control 'Pick color'

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$ColorChooser_1 = GuiCtrlCreateButton("", 90, 140, 90, 20,-1)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,8421504)

If you could make the color show as hex, that'd be nice.
 

$msg = GuiGetMsg()
    Select
    Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        ExitLoop

If you could use Switch instead of Select, that'd be nice too.
And if the code that comes out, would come out Proper Cased and TIDYed,  that'd be nice too.
 

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/Best_coding_practices#Names_of_Variables is a good read.

Edited August 12, 2016 by argumentum

[DFerrato]

  On 8/12/2016 at 6:41 PM, argumentum said:

$ColorChooser_1 = GuiCtrlCreateButton("", 90, 140, 90, 20,-1)
GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1,8421504)

If you could make the color show as hex, that'd be nice.
 

$msg = GuiGetMsg()
    Select
    Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
        ExitLoop

If you could use Switch instead of Select, that'd be nice too.
And if the code that comes out, would come out Proper Cased and TIDYed,  that'd be nice too.
 

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/Best_coding_practices#Names_of_Variables is a good read.

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Thanks argumentum by your corrections and suggestions

 

 

Daniel

[DFerrato]

Hello to all..

Returning this project, submitted a new version of the GUIBUILDER. This is an open project and i hope your suggestion and collaboration.

 

Sample of Look and Feel.

1) Motivations:

When you return to the development of the guibuilder, i ask to myself because I make a new program when there are already other full already extensive use among programrs as for example ISNT Studio or the K.O.D.A.

And I found myself with the necessity that this is easily extensible, independent of the programming language and in a future integrated into a larger suite that includes other components (e.g., automation in the program flows, modeling of data structure, programming by rules, distinction of tasks by users, integration with other applications using standards such as SOAP or REST, etc.).

This is so understanding the state of the art of software development today, is no longer useful that the aid is only in GUI development's.

2) Rationalizations:

My first impulse to resuming development was to follow the methodology applied up until that time.

But to have to speak the message loop to add the editing of properties of the window, I found myself in a quagmire to locate the exact site where to insert the new code. Just at that moment I understood because in Guibuilder Ravamped withdrew all the code that did not belong to the basic structure.

This experience led me to adopt a third alternative expressed in the following actions:

• Convert all pieces of possible codes in functions: to each of these new features, you added a description and document parameters of Estrada, output and global variables used or modified.
• Organization of code and functions in sections: I understood that it is easier to find, understand and modify a section of code, if this is grouped according to what it does, The separation into Sections also reached to code generated by the GuiBuilder.
• Use a Database: In reviewing the various codes to modify i found that many of them were very similar, being able to save labor and time, separating the data in the instructions themselves and placing the latter in a local database (see Modifying_db.txt and structure_db.txt)
• Edition of Properties: While many controls have similar properties, this is not the case for all of them. By this replaced the fields Edit, by a grid, then automated change of each one of them, placed in the Db information on editing mechanism, by default values and classes about which it applies.
• New main window: It seemed to me that the program should have a separate to the main window of the properties and is remade the menu by placing some of its functions in a toolbar

4) State of the art

While the Guibuilder works and generates a correct code, there are many even the facilities that I would like to add to it a full form builder.

The functions currently available are:

• Usable Controls: Button, Checkbox, Radio, Edit, Input, Label, List, combo, Date, TreeView (incomplete), Icon, Pic, Progress Bar, Slider Bar, Group (incomplete) y Choose Color (New).
• Properties availables: and dependent on the control class chosen, are: Name, Left, Top, Width, BKColor, Color, Image, Style, Tip, Text, State, Cursor, Font (Type, size, color, styles) , Caption, Height, Value Default, Nombre de Clase, Style_ex, Source.
• Windows Properties: (incomplete)
• Grid: Enabled / Disabled, automatic alignment, alignment of the current control or all controls.
• Menu features: with added, enabled, disabled fast (see Menu.txt)
• Toolbar features: with added, enabled, disabled fast (see Toolbar.txt)
• Properties: Quick Add (see properties.txt)
• Debug: In the execution of code compiled or interpreted in a separate window (Open Debugview.exe - included)
• Debugging Features: display of internal arrays of operation ($MCL[], $Type[], $Grippy[], $CursorInfo[])
• Autoit code generation: using loop of messages
• Generation saved source: code at any time.
• Possibility to generate codes: in other programming languages

In the header of Guibuilder.au3 are the incomplete list and the point’s detected errors not yet corrected.

5)  To Next ?.

There are many tasks that are still to be carried out, to get to the objective explained in paragraph motivations, even that this form creator is as useful as possible to the developer. I would like to start by modifying the following:

• Autoit code generation using events.
• Complete controls disabled Tab, Menu, Context Menu, file etc.
• Added child windows.
• Correction of known bugs.
• Import function of code: after the modifications to it, made by a programer.
• Complete mass Modification: (Maintenance menu in tools).
• Shrinking message loop and global variables: the ease of maintenance of the program is inversely proportional to this.
• Toolbar of Properties: converter of static (actual) to Dynamic. For easy add the new properties.

Wanted Beta tester, developers and fresh ideas.

Exampe of Independent Debug window.

GuiBuilder v1.0.11.zipFetching info...

Regards Daniel

Edited May 29, 2019 by DFerrato

[TheSaint]

Looks and sounds good. I will have a play.

Thanks for sharing.

I will add it to the history list.

[argumentum]

Welcome back @DFerrato. Just one thing. Use English everywhere. Spanglish will not work for everyone in the world   

[DFerrato]

  On 5/29/2019 at 4:33 PM, argumentum said:

Welcome back @DFerrato. Just one thing. Use English everywhere. Spanglish will not work for everyone in the world   

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Thank for welcome and corrections Argumentum.  

 PS: Translated from spanish to english language using  https://traductor.babylon-software.com/espanol/a-ingles/

[Exit]

Or better use

https://translate.google.de/#view=home&op=translate&sl=es&tl=en

since your link does not point to

 https://traductor.babylon-software.com/espanol/a-ingles/

Instead it points to this thread. Just try it.

 

Edited May 29, 2019 by Exit

[DFerrato]

  On 5/29/2019 at 8:06 PM, Exit said:

Or better use

https://translate.google.de/#view=home&op=translate&sl=es&tl=en

since your link does not point to

 https://traductor.babylon-software.com/espanol/a-ingles/

Instead it points to this thread. Just try it.

 

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Hello Exit

Thank you for your suggestion.

What I wanted to mean is that some wrong word in English or syntax error will find in my essays.

Apologies for my bad English

By the way, any comments on the program?

Regards Daniel.
 

[OldGuyWalking]

@DFerrato - Thank you for re-starting the development.  I will look at the application.

There is no need to apologize for "bad" English.   I never do. (It is a joke)  🤪

OldGuyWalking

[DFerrato]

  On 8/11/2019 at 7:18 PM, OldGuyWalking said:

@DFerrato - Thank you for re-starting the development.  I will look at the application.

There is no need to apologize for "bad" English.   I never do. (It is a joke)  🤪

OldGuyWalking

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@OldGuyWalking thanks for your comment.

My intention in publishing the development carried out, was not to talk about the English language.

Was to assist the rest by giving them an extensible GUIBUILDER and receive the guidance, help and ideas of the people of the forum to finalize it.

But sometimes the way to communicate weighs more than the ideas that one expresses. 😃

Regards Daniel

[FMS]

Seems a good update @DFerrato  
download seems to be broken , got this error message when I tried to unzip the file :

 

Seems all the file's in the zip give this unspecified error if you push Skip.....