GUI

[the_lord_mephy]

idk what to do i have the GUIConstants.au3 but it doesnt do anything.

[Valik]

Here's a piece of advice, I encourage you to take it if you actually want to be productive.

You didn't know what a GUI was to begin with. Now that you do, you are struggling to get together what you need to design GUIs. The advice is, GUIs are not for you right now. You do not seem to have enough basic experience to even begin writing GUIs; they are not simple things. They require a lot more thought and proper designing than other types of scripts. Come back to the GUI stuff after getting at least a couple months of good, solid work with AutoIt under your belt. Learn how to use the language at an intermediate level (at least) before attempting to use the GUI stuff. Otherwise, you'll spend 95% of your coding time asking questions in the GUI forum and probably not learning much of anything at all.

Edit: Sentence clarity

Edited September 18, 2004 by Valik

[the_lord_mephy]

Well I feel that I have a pretty good ammount of AutoIt experience under my belt, I just know nothing about GUIs (which is why I made this topic), and that is why I seem so inept.

[KnowledgeSponge]

I'd have to agree with Valik. Not putting you down or anything like that, but if you are having a problem with the whole general understanding of making gui's (although making gui's is somewhat different than straight up coding with autoit), you should really work with autoit more and try and get all the basic concepts down. Then move on to the GUI's when you feel you could pretty much do whatever you wanted with autoit. You could *try* using cyber's autobuilder, but I think when you go to add the actual functions etc to the code you will be lost.

My suggestion to you is, come up with some ideas, code them without gui's, work out the bugs, after a month maybe, go back and implement gui's into them so you can absorb the concept of it slightly easier.

Asking such a broad question as "how do I make gui's" the only answer you could be given is sample code, and you would be like "ok wtf is that". So really you need to figure this out for yourself. It's not something someone can help you with really. You just have to learn it.

Edited September 18, 2004 by KnowledgeSponge

[Valik]

Its posts like this that make me think you aren't ready for GUI stuff yet.

[the_lord_mephy]

i suppose ur right lol, i just really want to learn how to make GUIs badly

[emmanuel]

well, and if you do still feel that you're ready for it, read the helpfile that you just got when you installed the beta, it has a whole gui section.

[the_lord_mephy]

i searched GUI in the help file i got with the beta file and it just gave me the same pages that it would give me with the normal help file.

[emmanuel]

i searched GUI in the help file i got with the beta file and it just gave me the same pages that it would give me with the normal help file.

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use the contents view, expand the Function Referance section and there should be a GUI section.

[bobheart]

Look for the GUI Reference in the left tree .

In AutoIt you can defined a dialog box with the following control on it

label

just plain text

button

input

where the user will enter some information as in inputbox

checkbox

so the user can select something

radio

for single choice between several radio button

combo

selection of an element with a drowndown list

list

selection in a plain list

edit

to received/displayed a notepad like area

date

special control to select date

pic

to display a picture

icon

to display an icon

progress

to display a progress bar

tab

to display a tab control

updown

to add to and input control up-down button

avi

to display an Avi Clip