Gui Code Added To Unstable

[Jon 794]

Hopefully I've not messed up JP's code...

http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/files/unstable/autoit/

[Helge 1]

Nice !

[jpm 37]

Hopefully I've not messed up JP's code...

http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/files/unstable/autoit/

The answer is yes. Very good come back to unstable delivery.

Thanks JON for this new step in the AutoIt3 quest.

The only thing I can add for those who have test until now the autoit-gui stuff is

I have to look at 3 problems:

• notification on input control not working all the time since I correct the notification on label
• combo highlight when resizing (not all the time too)
• some timer not rearm after resizing

[Josbe 1]

Very good!

also...please, check this out: v102.18C mistake

[jpm 37]

  Very good!

also...please, check this out: v102.18C mistake

Thanks, I will

EDITed see the answer it is not a Bug

Edited April 22, 2004 by jpm

[Chris_1013 0]

Oooh this is getting interesting... I can't wait for this to be out and use-able in a stable version. Good to see you've got a lil free time back John :-)

[Jon 794]

Added some of Valik's and David's submissions:

- Added: Multi-directory #include <> paths

- Changed: Multi-line tooltips for ToolTip()

- Changed: Optional occurance parameter added to StringInStr()

- Changed: Optional default filename added to FileOpenDialog() and FileSaveDialog()

- Added: The Au3Gui code

[Valik 468]

Jon, since you have added the GUI stuff along with the #include stuff, I'll try to make a nice GUI-based script to manage the include paths. That input box thing I wrote isn't the most user friendly of things (Didn't want to use an external program for it). That could be a nice GUI example, too, maybe (Might be intermediate level, though).

Also, I didn't see any mention of the new feature as far as how to use it so I'll whip something up.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm aiming to do it by or over the weekend.

Edited April 22, 2004 by Valik

[Jon 794]

Whoops, there was a bug in the StringInStr mod. Fixed it now.

Added Cyberslug's ControlCommand addition of GetCurrentCol

Added the "0x" string conversion thing suggested earlier.

[Nutster 2]

When is the updated source going to be posted? I want to do some work on the debug version and want to use the latest source to do it. Not that I have all that much time this weekend, but it is a start.

Jon, when I send you the changes for AutoItDbg, I will include the VC6 project and workspace files, because I intend to set up a new project to handle the AutoItDbg version, which is likely to grow well above 100 KB, especially with the AutoItGui stuff in there as well. There will be a lot of #ifdef AUTOITDBG codes scattered around to selectively add the updated debug code. :huh2:

[Jon 794]

Updated:

- JP latest GUI fixes added

- Installer sets correct file associations under XP, 2000, 2003

- Code fixed for compilation under MinGW

JP: I've changed about 20 lines in guibox.cpp to make it compile without warnings under MinGW, things changed:

- Many times you've used NULL for WPARAM and LPARAM arguments (SendMessage) - I've changed these to 0 instead (compiler complains about using a pointer instead of a number).

- A couple of places a negative number was assigned to a DWORD or BYTE so I've simply cast these: (BYTE)-1 etc.

It really hates this:

for (int i=0...)

{

}

if (i = ... )

So i've just moved the int i declaration to the top of the function and removed it from the for loop.

All the changes seem innocent enough but it might be worth checking that it hasn't broken anything.

[Valik 468]

I think the last change (Using i outside the scope of a for loop) is non-standard C++ anyway. It's only MS-specific that it still lives past the scope of for (Provided it is declared in the loop). There is a compiler option to turn on for loop scope conformance, also.

[Valik 468]

Jon, since you have added the GUI stuff along with the #include stuff, I'll try to make a nice GUI-based script to manage the include paths.  That input box thing I wrote isn't the most user friendly of things (Didn't want to use an external program for it).  That could be a nice GUI example, too, maybe (Might be intermediate level, though).

Also, I didn't see any mention of the new feature as far as how to use it so I'll whip something up.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm aiming to do it by or over the weekend.

I finished writing the include manager a bit ago. I still need to go back through and clean the code and add comments. I also need to write the documentation for it and the custom-include directories in general.

It's a simple design; a listbox showing the paths that are added, a button to add a new path, one to open the selected path (With explorer) and one to remove the selected path.

As far as being an example of a GUI goes, it's fairly simple. It shows how to use a message pump. It's pretty much an accurate representation of the implementation of all my GUI scripts as I use this same message pump structure in all of them.

I'll upload it once I finish the documentation and stuff tomorrow (Monday), I hope.

[Valik 468]

I finished the Include Manager script and documentation. I uploaded it to here.

Included is the script (.au3) and the documentation for the help file.

[Jon 794]

Ok, I admit that I've only been half-following the GUI development due to problems at this end but looking at the samples JP did and this GUI include manager just blows me away.

Really.

[Jon 794]

Updated the current unstable:

http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/files/unstable/autoit/

- Added JP's latest GUI fixes (.22)

- Added PixelChecksum()

Still working on the exe file format.

[jpm 37]

Updated the current unstable:

http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/files/unstable/autoit/

- Added JP's latest GUI fixes (.22)

- Added PixelChecksum()

Still working on the exe file format.

nonreg good for me

Perf improvement 3.0.101.0 -> 3.0.102.0 (2004\04\30 10:39)

For=-1.78% Do=-3.43% While=-3.53% Include=-3.87%

I will be on the road starting sunday to sunday. I go to WinHEC perhpas I will be a more better developper ...

[Jon 794]

Finished the initial changes to the compiler/compiled script format. Some stats from the old version and the new using a 180MB test file using "normal" compression on my laptop.

Old .102

======

Compressed size: 60.4MB (66%)

Time taken to execute first script command: 15 seconds!

Time taken for FileInstall extraction: 62 seconds

Memory used for extraction: 240+MB !!!!!

New .102

=======

Compressed size: 68.4MB (62%)

Time taken to execute first script command: Instant!

Time taken for FileInstall extraction: 22 seconds

Memory used for extraction: less than 1MB

70% of the speed/memory improvements are down to the way I've rewritten the code and used buffers and checksumming, so in theory I could add the old compression code back in...but I think I'm happier with the smaller/faster compression code for this particular application and 4% is no great loss.

Please take time to do lots of compiling/tests as messing with data at the bit level is always...erm...problematic

[Jon 794]

Are you staring into a mirror smiling while typing that last post? ha

Truly though, this kind of coding is the stuff us novices would love to understand... kudos

Lar.

It was just one of those things I wanted to know how to code (even if it's much less good than current compressors) so a couple of years ago I spent a week googling for info.

The compression I'm using (LZ77 variant) is pretty simple to understand and implement. Download this file:

http://www.hiddensoft.com/cgi-bin/countdown.pl?code/LZSS.zip

And just read the file "LZSS_Explained.txt" - which was an attempt to explain how it works (for myself )

Then look at the decompression routine in v0_10.zip - it's only 3 pages long! As I found out, the difficulty comes from trying to make it fast. The stuff that's been done recently with the GUI and the scriptwriter is probably more complicated.

Edited May 2, 2004 by Jon

[Jon 794]

http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/files/unstable/autoit/

Updated:

Improvements to Aut2Exe:

- Now updates the screen during long compiles (rather than hanging when you move the screen)

- Displays realtime compression level and percentage complete for each file

- User is able to abort the compile