Child GUI not apearing all the time

[dinodod]

Ok, now I need to understand this. I asked several people for some advise on this topic and it appears that this is more than just an incident with my coding. I now am asking for support to see whay GUI controls seem to flake out at random.

controls not appearing when they should

controls stuck behind other controls instead of being in front even when popupwindow is an option.

other random issues

I am using the release version of autoit 3 (3.2, I believe)

Is there any way to trace the issue? and yes, I am on XP SP2.

Thanks

Edited January 25, 2007 by dinodod

[mrbond007]

Ok, now I need to understand this. I asked several people for some advise on this topic and it appears that this is more than just an incident with my coding. I now am asking for support to see whay GUI controls seem to flake out at random.

controls not appearing when they should

controls stuck behind other controls instead of being in front even when popupwindow is an option.

other random issues

I am using the release version of autoit 3 (3.2, I believe)

Is there any way to trace the issue? and yes, I am on XP SP2.

Thanks

You may be right, it may be the fault of SP2. you can try testing your script with an older autoit version (or beta), or simply use your script with XP SP1!! i was testing some scripts with older versions like 98/ME and the effect is always different from running them with XP.

[SmOke_N]

Ok, now I need to understand this. I asked several people for some advise on this topic and it appears that this is more than just an incident with my coding. I now am asking for support to see whay GUI controls seem to flake out at random.

controls not appearing when they should

controls stuck behind other controls instead of being in front even when popupwindow is an option.

other random issues

I am using the release version of autoit 3 (3.2, I believe)

Is there any way to trace the issue? and yes, I am on XP SP2.

Thanks

This all sounds like a control sizing issue.

[dinodod]

This all sounds like a control sizing issue.

Can you provide an example of your code so I can compare against mine.

Sample:

$MainGUI = GUICreate("Title", $MainGUI_Width, $MainGUI_Height) ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered

$ChildGUI_TreeView = GUICreate("TreeView", 220, 320, 20, 20, $WS_CHILD, $WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, $MainGUI)

[Jos]

Can you provide an example of your code so I can compare against mine.

Sample:

$MainGUI = GUICreate("Title", $MainGUI_Width, $MainGUI_Height) ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered

$ChildGUI_TreeView = GUICreate("TreeView", 220, 320, 20, 20, $WS_CHILD, $WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, $MainGUI)

What about you post the code that is given problems ?

[dinodod]

Well, I guess I had more time than brains cause I went back and ripped apart my applet and turned just about everything into either a SELECT CASE or a FUNCTION.

My guess was that I was somehow loading too many guis and it started to corrupt my GUI somehow. Since I've forced everything to be in functions, I have much more control over what gets loaded and when. All I know is that I had to make a trade off. A working GUI but I have to declare a lot of GLOBAL variables

It seems to have stabalized now. I'll keep you posted.