help resizing a gui using a button control

[Kaso]

I want to start my gui at a particular size. When I press a button I want the gui to change size to make room for the new information displayed. I assume its a combination for guicreate and gui delete but I could not get it to work. Any Help would be appreciated

GUICreate("Name...",100,100); will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)   ; will display an empty dialog box
$btn1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("test",10,10)
While 1
$msg = GUIGetMsg()
if $msg = $btn1 Then
Code to change the gui size
EndIf
If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd

[Valuater]

Maybe this

#include <GUIConstants.au3>
GUICreate("Name...",100,100); will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)   ; will display an empty dialog box
$btn1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("test",10,10)
While 1
$msg = GUIGetMsg()
if $msg = $btn1 Then
$POS = WinGetPos("Name...")
WinMove("Name...", "", $POS[0], $POS[1], 200, 200)
EndIf
If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd

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[Valuater]

this is a demo i wrote not long ago..

maybe you could use this idea

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#Include <GUIConstants.au3>

; Default values for main gui
$title = "My Shrink"
$width = 500
$height = 400
$left = 300 
$top = 300 


; Create the main gui 
$gui = GuiCreate($title, $width, $height, $left, $top, $WS_CLIPSIBLINGS + $WS_SYSMENU, $WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES + $WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW + $WS_EX_TOPMOST)

; create the buttons then hide or expand the window ( your choice )
$xpand = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Xpand the window", 200, 110, 100, 20)
$hide = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Hide controls", 100, 310, 100, 20)
$dummy = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Dummy control", 200, 310, 100, 20)
$show = GUICtrlCreateButton( "Show controls", 300, 310, 100, 20)

; set and hide gui
GuiSetState(@SW_HIDE)

; hide controls
GUICtrlSetState($hide, $GUI_HIDE )
GUICtrlSetState($dummy, $GUI_HIDE )
GUICtrlSetState($show, $GUI_HIDE )
WinMove($title, "",  $left, $top, $width, 100)
GuiSetState(@SW_SHOW)

While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $msg = $xpand
            Set_xpand()
        Case $msg = $hide
            Set_hide()
        Case $msg = $show
            Set_show()  
    EndSelect
WEnd


; ---------- Functions -----------

func Set_xpand()
    If GUICtrlRead($xpand) = "Xpand the window" Then
        GUICtrlSetState($xpand, $GUI_HIDE )
        $inc = 100
        While $inc < 400
            $inc = $inc + 1
            WinMove($title, "",  $left, $top, $width, $inc)
        WEnd
        Set_show()  
        GUICtrlSetData($xpand, "Shrink the window")
    Else
        Set_hide()
        GUICtrlSetState($show, $GUI_HIDE )
        $inc = 400
        While $inc > 100
            $inc = $inc - 1
            WinMove($title, "",  $left, $top, $width, $inc)
        WEnd
        GUICtrlSetState($xpand, $GUI_SHOW )
        GUICtrlSetData($xpand, "Xpand the window")
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func Set_hide()
    GUICtrlSetState($xpand, $GUI_HIDE )
    GUICtrlSetState($dummy, $GUI_HIDE )
    GUICtrlSetState($hide, $GUI_HIDE )
EndFunc

Func Set_show()
    GUICtrlSetState($xpand, $GUI_SHOW )
    GUICtrlSetState($dummy, $GUI_SHOW )
    GUICtrlSetState($hide, $GUI_SHOW )
    GUICtrlSetState($show, $GUI_SHOW )
EndFunc

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[Kaso]

that does work, thank you. But In the resizing it also moved the inputs and buttons in my GUI. Is there a style or something to add? so that they don't move

[Valuater]

yes...

#include <GUIConstants.au3>

GUICreate("My GUI Button") ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered.

Opt("GUICoordMode",2); this is one of many special, coordinates modes, this one is based on 2, the cell position.
GUICtrlCreateButton ("OK",  10, 30, 50); this creates the button, the first text is what is displayed on the button.
; the second is how far from the left, the third how far from the top, fourth is how long the button is.

; this button is based on the cell coordinates, of the previous button.
GUICtrlCreateButton ( "Cancel",  0, -1) 

GUISetState ()    ; will display an  dialog box with the 2 buttons.

; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed.
While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg(); this checks for a message/input from the GUI.
    
    If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop; this states, on an exit event, exit the loop.
Wend

OR....

if you notice in my second script .... i created the buttons ( etc ) first then sized the window so they were out of the gui... when the gui is expanded... the buttons fit/show in the larger gui

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