GUI newbie tutorial

[qwertylol]

autoit3 is a very good scripting program, yet it's hard to learn how to intergrate the gui created with koda to the core script.

how do I learn to do that ?

[Valuater]

autoit3 is a very good scripting program, yet it's hard to learn how to intergrate the gui created with koda to the core script.

how do I learn to do that ?

do you start with a "core" script or the GUI???

8)

[qwertylol]

do you start with a "core" script or the GUI???

8)

but, to start off, how do I write a [edit box] [ok] button to send the content to a variable?

both, the gui will be event driven, what i need to write is a window with complex functions.

This is what I am trying to do:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45278

[enaiman]

For a start you can put Koda to generate advanced code.

Just look in the Tools menu and choose "Advance Generate" - you can see then a couple of options (OnEvent Mode and Generate Events for all controls)

[Zedna]

autoit3 is a very good scripting program, yet it's hard to learn how to intergrate the gui created with koda to the core script.

how do I learn to do that ?

In Autoit Helpfile look at section "GUI Reference"

there is

- GUI Concepts

- GUI MessageLoop Mode

- GUI OnEvent Mode

[qwertylol]

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit

    EndSwitch
WEnd

yet another infinite loop !

what if I need to run tcp server and I need an inifite loop for that also?

wouldn't it make the script unresponsive if the server gets busy?

[qwertylol]

how do I create a field where a picture is shown,

and controls to view the picture in different sizes?

like mspaint, you can enlarge part of the photo and then I need the ability to create a drag square to select a area, and then I need to tick off unwanted pixel and then send the rest of the squares from the selected area to a function ?

[enaiman]

yet another infinite loop !

what if I need to run tcp server and I need an inifite loop for that also?

wouldn't it make the script unresponsive if the server gets busy?

Indeed it is an infinite loop but ... that loop is necessary (I can say- essential) because without that loop the script will terminate so fast that you could barely see it.

That loop is a waiting loop - in the case you showed is a loop where your GUI waits for a message in order to do the associated action (message = button press, input changed, checkbox checked/unchecked ...) ... the explanation is: the GUI waits for an action. That is if you need a GUI. If you don't need a GUI but a regular script then you can get rid of that loop - look at the WinZip installer example.

So - to conclude:

- if you need a GUI (Graphical User Interface) - you MUST use an infinite loop

- if you don't need a GUI - then the infinite loop doesn't make sense

What I can tell you - Look a little closer at the help and maybe see and try to understand some simple example scripts.