Custom Data Types?

[Grax]

Is there anyway in AutoIT to do Custom Data Types?

I'm wanting to do something like this VB code:

Type SettingInfo
    AppID As String
    CurrentPath As String
    UserName As String
    Password As String
    ExpirationDate As Date
    UsageCount As Integer
    AccessLevel As Integer
    AllowChanges As Boolean
End Type

Dim Settings As SettingInfo

Settings.AppID = "Something"
Settings.CurrentPath ="C:\Something\"

[nobbe]

no , but as a workaround you could use 1dimensional array

autoit doesnt distinguish variables, so "$i" can be integer or string or array... it becomes what you set it up to..

[enaiman]

From all your code it will remain only:

Dim $AppID, $CurrentPath, $UserName, $Password, $ExpirationDate, $UsageCount, $AccessLevel, $AllowChanges

$AppID = "Something"
$CurrentPath ="C:\Something\"

As nobbe pointed out - every of these variables can hold anything: now $AppID holds a string and if your next command is $AppID = 55 + 45 you will see that the new value is 100 which is a number.

I don't feel I lose anything with this variable behaviour.

[nobbe]

another idea may be to setup variable names with prefix

so

Type SettingInfo

AppID As String

CurrentPath As String

UserName As String

Password As String

ExpirationDate As Date

UsageCount As Integer

AccessLevel As Integer

AllowChanges As Boolean

End Type

could be

$SettingInfo_AppID =" 123"

$SettingInfo_CurrentPath = "C:\Something\"

$SettingInfo_UsageCount = 3

and so on ..

or you may even more use variables following the "Hungarian notation" to give them better naming structure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

which could maybe look like

$SettingInfo_sz_AppID =" 123"

$SettingInfo_sz_CurrentPath = "C:\Something\"

$SettingInfo_i_UsageCount = 3

[rasim]

From help:

  Quote

In AutoIt there is only one datatype called a Variant. A variant can contain numeric or string data and decides how to use the data depending on the situation it is being used in. For example, if you try and multiply two variants they will be treated as numbers, if you try and concatenate (join) two variants they will be treated as strings.