mix up win... and gui... commands ?

[jennico]

hi there,

in my script i often use the line:

if winexists($i) then guidelete($i)

now i am not sure anymore if this works in every case. the question i ask myself is: can you mix up the win... and gui... commands in this way ? is the winhandle the same ?

and more general: what is the difference between gui and win ? why isn't there a command like 'guiexists' or 'windelete' (okay, there is 'winkill', i know).

if i use instead:

if winexists($i) then winkill($i)

does this mean that i really delete the gui with the handle ($i) in every case ?

sry, my explanation is a bit clumsy because i am somewhat confused. maybe someone understands my demand.

thanx

j.

[martin]

hi there,

in my script i often use the line:

if winexists($i) then guidelete($i)

now i am not sure anymore if this works in every case. the question i ask myself is: can you mix up the win... and gui... commands in this way ? is the winhandle the same ?

and more general: what is the difference between gui and win ? why isn't there a command like 'guiexists' or 'windelete' (okay, there is 'winkill', i know).

if i use instead:

if winexists($i) then winkill($i)

does this mean that i really delete the gui with the handle ($i) in every case ?

sry, my explanation is a bit clumsy because i am somewhat confused. maybe someone understands my demand.

thanx

j.

You just need to read the Help file, as was recently pointed out to me on a similar point. Guicreate returns a windows handle so guidelete should be ok. You have to make sure that you have detetected the correct window with winexists which depends on the "WinTitleMatchMode" setting in AutoItSetOption. Edited May 12, 2007 by martin

[jennico]

thank you i read the help file. it says:

"Note: Window handles will work no matter what WinTitleMatchMode is currently in use."

this means to me: when i use hwnd instead of the title i can use the win... commands in the same way as gui..... commands. so far so good. but: 'windelete' helpfile says:

"Windows handle as returned by GUICreate (default is the previous used)."

no i will go deeper into my problem:

i create several guis in atwo dimensional array by

guicreate($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])

then i want to delete all the guis in that array by:

for $i= 1 to hwnd1
for $j= 1 to hwnd2
if winexists($gui[$i][$j]) then guidelete($gui[$i][$j])
next
next

note: not all guis in the array are necessarily created!

but what happens now, is that the script erases more than only the array guis and additionally the most recent guis. this means to me that the detection method 'if winexists($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])' does not work correctly. it seems to me that the detection of the hwnd fails and instead of deleting the (not existing) array gui another gui (the most recent) is erased. so what is wrong with:

if winexists($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2]) then guidelete($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])

?

is therer a better way to detect if a gui exists ?

sry for bad explanation again.

j.

Edited May 12, 2007 by jennico

[jennico]

okay, i tried it in two different ways:

If WinExists($gui[$i][$j]) Then WinKill($gui[$i][$j])

If WinExists($gui[$i][$j]) Then WinClose($gui[$i][$j])

this doesn't close any window !

so the conclusion is: something with the hwnd is wrong. can anyone tell me what is wrong with

GuiCreate($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])

?

j.

[martin]

i create several guis in atwo dimensional array by

guicreate($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])

This doen't make sense to me

guicreate($gui[hwnd1][hwnd2])

I know that in general you can use a windows handle in place of a title, but for guicreate the handle is what is returned by guicreate, and if the handle already exists then what are you creating? I don't think that works.

To create an array of guis you need to do this

for $a = 0 to ??
 for $b = 0 to ??
   $gui[$a][$b] = guicreate("...")

 next
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