GUI Controls : unreliable? skipping mouse input?

[ReallyMute]

Hello,

I constructed a set of GUIControls to send text over to a window with different options.

The GUI list, slider and button I'm using seem to stubbornly refuse to respond to mouse clicks sometimes... as if the click events were being 'lost'. I find myself earnestly clicking 2, 3 times (not double-clicks) on the same control to get some reaction.

Is this a product of my coding or are AutoIt GUI controls (and the message polling loop) unreliable and unable to robustly deal with mouse input?

Code Extract :

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

$msg = GUIGetMsg()

if $commandfinished and $buttonstatechanged then

GUICtrlSetState($Button_1, $GUI_ENABLE)

$buttonstatechanged = false

EndIf

Select

Case $msg == $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

Case $msg == $Button_1

if $commandfinished then

GUICtrlSetState($Button_1, $GUI_DISABLE)

$buttonstatechanged = false

;displayNotepad() ; Will Run/Open Notepad

........... (code omitted here ) .....................

WEnd

END extract

If they are usually reliable, are there tricks to use or traps to avoid?

Thanks for your opinion

SendRappelzText.au3

Edited September 1, 2008 by ReallyMute

[martin]

Hello,

I constructed a set of GUIControls to send text over to a window with different options.

The GUI list, slider and button I'm using seem to stubbornly refuse to respond to mouse clicks sometimes... as if the click events were being 'lost'. I find myself earnestly clicking 2, 3 times (not double-clicks) on the same control to get some reaction.

Is this a product of my coding or are AutoIt GUI controls (and the message polling loop) unreliable and unable to robustly deal with mouse input?

Code Extract :

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

$msg = GUIGetMsg()

if $commandfinished and $buttonstatechanged then

GUICtrlSetState($Button_1, $GUI_ENABLE)

$buttonstatechanged = false

EndIf

Select

Case $msg == $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

ExitLoop

Case $msg == $Button_1

if $commandfinished then

GUICtrlSetState($Button_1, $GUI_DISABLE)

$buttonstatechanged = false

;displayNotepad() ; Will Run/Open Notepad

........... (code omitted here ) .....................

WEnd

END extract

If they are usually reliable, are there tricks to use or traps to avoid?

Thanks for your opinion

Welcome to AutoIt forums ReallyMute.

The main problem with your script is that you are discarding a lot of the events detected which is why you have to click a number of times to get a reaction.

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE;GuiGetMsg() returns the event but nothing is done if the event is not $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
    $msg = GUIGetMsg();then GuiGetMsg() returns the next event if there is one but if the last event was $button_1 it has been lost.

I hope that makes sense.

Since you already have a way to deal with $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE in your select statement then the easiest fix is to replace

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

with

While 1

[ReallyMute]

Welcome to AutoIt forums ReallyMute.

The main problem with your script is that you are discarding a lot of the events detected which is why you have to click a number of times to get a reaction.

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE;GuiGetMsg() returns the event but nothing is done if the event is not $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
    $msg = GUIGetMsg();then GuiGetMsg() returns the next event if there is one but if the last event was $button_1 it has been lost.

I hope that makes sense.

Since you already have a way to deal with $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE in your select statement then the easiest fix is to replace

While GuiGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

with

While 1

Thank you , Martin

I took that While / Wend loop from one of the examples (SampleControls.au3) provided with AutoIt3. I assumed it was the correct approach.

I'll try your advice and be more wary of the samples in the future.

- ReallyMute

[martin]

Thank you , Martin

NP

I took that While / Wend loop from one of the examples (SampleControls.au3) provided with AutoIt3. I assumed it was the correct approach.

- ReallyMute

I think there is nothing wrong with the SampleControls.au3 example, maybe you misread it.