learning gui

[GodForsakenSoul]

my attempts to learn some autoit has led me to find the GUI section of the help file.

so now, instead of making one script, i'm going to learn to make a few buttons that execute different scripts.

so far i understand two basic things:

1) every button has an ID number, which i can't figure out how to set or make use of (the help file is somewhat confusing, but i'm overcoming the confusion).

2) when i make a window, i individually write what size i want everything to be and where.

the red dots are the coordinates of the stuff i set and the blue things are the size of whatever i set the coordinates for.

i can set size of text window and the window in which all the action happents, but i can not set the size of the buttons.

the point of the thread: two requests: 1) confirm the theory i purposed explaining basic thing #2. am i right or not?

2) explain to me how to make use of the ID of the button explained in basic thing #1.

all help and making things clear on the subject of GUIs is very welcome in general.

[BigDod]

If you want an easy way to make GUI's then I suggest that you use Koda. If you have downloaded the full version of SciTe then you will find it "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\Koda".

[GodForsakenSoul]

eh... i tried that koda thing when i posted a little less detailed thread on the topic. it's more confusing.

i prefer the old (?) way of typing everything like

GuiCreateWhatever

myself. that way i have more control and i actually understand what i'm doing. it worked when i did something similar in actool quite well and i don't want to screw with what i see as perfection.

also, right now i have about 50 more questions, but i have to go. be back in like half an hour and then the first post will get a massive update of more questions.

[Tomb]

If you want an easy way to make GUI's then I suggest that you use Koda. If you have downloaded the full version of SciTe then you will find it "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\Koda".

scite? koda?

i'm more of a notepad kinda guy personally.

[Valuater]

Welcome to Autoit is a tut for beginers, give it a look

8)

[GEOSoft]

Here is a GUI for you which approximates your drawing and I've included some explanations.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
;; Greate the main form with a size of 300 wide by 450
;;Where "My Test GUI" is the title bar text, 300 = Width and 450 = Height
$Frm_Main = GUICreate("MyTest Form", 300, 450)
;; Create an edit control and set the initial data
;; Where 10 = left start point, 10 = top start, 280 = width, 380 = height
$Edit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("This is some text", 10, 10, 280, 380)
;; Create a button where 120 = Left stqrt, 410 = top start &etc
$Btn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 120, 410, 60, 30)
GUISetState();; Display the GUI
While 1;; Keep it open until an exit event occurs
   $Msg = GUIGetMsg();; declare a variable for the GUIGetMsg just for simplicity.
   Switch $Msg
      Case $Btn
         If GUICtrlRead($Edit) = "" Then;; If there is no text in the edit control
            GUICtrlSetData($Edit, "The identifier for the edit control is>> " & $Edit & @CRLF & "The identifier for the button is>> " & $Btn)
         Else;; Remove the existing text
            GuiCtrlSetData($Edit, "")
         EndIf
      Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE;; Close message from the GUI (-3 could be used here instead eliminating the need for the #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> line
         Exit
   EndSwitch
Wend

Save it in a new au3 file, run it and click the button 3 or 4 times.

Edit: Error in comment

Edited March 8, 2008 by GEOSoft

[Info]

A fully commented script just looks more confusing to me...

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http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21048

[GEOSoft]

A fully commented script just looks more confusing to me...

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http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21048

I could have put in pretty colors for you(Crayola code) but that's confusing for me to read. That makes it you vs me and guess what? I win!!

[GEOSoft]

Just for @info ( so he can understand it) here is the same code without the comments and without the #includeed file.

$Frm_Main = GUICreate("MyTest Form", 300, 450)
$Edit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("This is some text", 10, 10, 280, 380)
$Btn = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button", 120, 410, 60, 30)
GUISetState()
While 1
   $Msg = GUIGetMsg()
   Switch $Msg
      Case $Btn
         If GUICtrlRead($Edit) = "" Then
            GUICtrlSetData($Edit, "The identifier for the edit control is " & $Edit & @CRLF & "The identifier for the button is " & $Btn)
         Else
            GuiCtrlSetData($Edit, "")
         EndIf
      Case -3
         Exit
   EndSwitch
Wend

[Info]

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[Achilles]

scite? koda?

i'm more of a notepad kinda guy personally.

Are you serious? Scite is the most useful tool I use for AutoIt. Koda is also extremely nice. Using notepad is unefficient compared to using scite because with scite you can spot errors with much more ease. My advice: try using Scite for a while.

[Tomb]

Are you serious? Scite is the most useful tool I use for AutoIt. Koda is also extremely nice. Using notepad is unefficient compared to using scite because with scite you can spot errors with much more ease. My advice: try using Scite for a while.

yeah i have always been a notepad kind of guy. i don't even like textpad. i could never get into scite, all of those colors going on, it was madness. The only errors i really make are usually very easy to find for me if i have the syntax right. in most cases if i have an error it is just the syntax. like if i use a function i have never used before, i might leave one of paramaters out, but that doesn't happen much. notepad > textpad > scite