Gui relative positioning of images

[Nova]

Ok so ive been writing my first GUI with autoit over the last 2 days and ive hit a small problem.

Heres a simple example of my problem.

Imagine that you have 2 pictures the first picture is a stick mans head and the second is his body.

GUICreate ( "Head" ,250 ,300 ,-1 ,-1 ,$WS_POPUP ,-1 ,-1)
$Head=GUICtrlCreatePic("C:\Pictures\Head.bmp",-1,-1, 250,300)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)

GUICreate ( "Body" ,123 ,53 ,-1,291 ,$WS_POPUP ,-1 ,-1)
$Body=GUICtrlCreatePic("C:\Pictures\Body.bmp", -1, -1,125 ,55)
GUISetState (@SW_SHOW)

Ok the above code will align the 2 images with the head sitting on the body.

But if you change your screen reslution the head moves away from the body.

This is obviously because the x y coordinates for the picture of the head are relative to your screen and not to the picture of the body.

So finally down to the question how do I align 1 picture to another using the GUI ?

Edited October 28, 2004 by nova

[this-is-me]

GUICtrlSetResizing

Edited October 28, 2004 by this-is-me

[Nova]

My gui isnt resizable !

I ment that I have image 1 set to default position perfectly centered on screen x cord = -1 and y cord = -1

the second image at the moment is set to default x cord = -1 but the y cord = 200

Lets say my screen res is 1600x1200

Then my 2nd pic is centered on the x axis and is 200units down the Y axis relative to the top of my screen.

So when the screen res is changed to 800x600 the first pic is still centered on screen with its default values

But the 2nd pic although its still 200units down the Y axis relative to the top of my screen the y axis is now only half the size it use to be (because the screen res has been halfed) so now pic 2 is overlapping pic 1.

Thats my problem

Edited October 28, 2004 by nova

[jpm]

There is no automatic solution to your problem. You have to compute pos/size according the gui size you are choosing. I cannot think of a coordinate system which will do that for you.

[scriptkitty]

I know it isn't an answer, but if you are making a hangman, why not make one pic with the whole body, and then save, remove a part, save, remove more, save, etc. Keep them all the same size, and just change the pic each time a wrong answer is done?

[CyberSlug]

To center a window on the screen you would use the following calculation:

$winWidth = 300
$winHeight = 200

$xPos = (@DesktopWidth - $winWidth) / 2
$yPos = (@DesktopHeight - $winHeight) / 2

SplashTextOn("Example", "", $winWidth, $winHeight, $xPos, $yPos)
sleep(2000)

Hope that helps you get started....

[JSThePatriot]

To center a window on the screen you would use the following calculation:

$winWidth = 300
$winHeight = 200

$xPos = (@DesktopWidth - $winWidth) / 2
$yPos = (@DesktopHeight - $winHeight) / 2

SplashTextOn("Example", "", $winWidth, $winHeight, $xPos, $yPos)
sleep(2000)

Hope that helps you get started....

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Beat me to what I was going to say Good job.

JS