Coding 1st GUI

[DarkBoost 0]

This is my first attempt at creating a GUI and have drawn up what I am trying to achieve.

Any thoughts regarding how I should tackle the coding would be greatly appreciated.

Edited October 2, 2008 by DarkBoost

[Achilles 1]

Have you tried Koda at all? It comes with scite...

[DarkBoost 0]

I have found endless examples/tutorials of how to create a GUI window but none which show how to program them.

Example 1. How to add a checkbox but not how to program it when it is ticked/unticked

Example 2. How to add a button but now how to program it when a user clicks on it.

Is there any examples/tutorials which will take you past creating the GUI and onto coding it?

Sucks being a noob :-(

[Cdma1X 0]

after creating the gui with koda generate the code.

example of gui with a button

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 268, 210, 252, 172)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 96, 72, 75, 25, 0)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit

    EndSwitch
WEnd

now if you want to show a message box on clicking the button then

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$Form1 = GUICreate("Form1", 268, 210, 252, 172)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Button1", 96, 72, 75, 25, 0)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $Button1
            MsgBox(64, "Test", "Button is working and will timeout in 10sec.", 10)
    EndSwitch
WEnd

see the difference line 15-18 to know how "Cases" works!

[Cdma1X 0]

i think i could not understand what you really want to achieve/accomplish. can you explain your problem? i think you want to know how controls/buttons works....

[crzftx 0]

There is something wrong with this forum...

Everything is continually freezing.

Here's my attempt, hope you learn best by example:

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Opt("GUIOnEventMode",1)

Global $guiMain, $labelInstalled[5], $buttonInstall[5]

$guiMain = GUICreate("Application GUI",345,150)

GUICtrlCreateLabel("Notepad",5,5,100,20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("App 2",5,35,100,20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("App 3",5,65,100,20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("App 4",5,95,100,20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("App 5",5,125,100,20)

For $z = 0 To 4
    $labelInstalled[$z] = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Installed",120,5 + 30 * $z,100,20)
    GUICtrlSetColor(-1,0x00FF00)
    $buttonInstall[$z] = GUICtrlCreateButton("Remove",240,5 + 30 * $z,100,20)
    GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1,"InstallApp")
Next

GUISetOnEvent(-3,"Quit")

GUISetState()

While 1
    Sleep(25)
WEnd

Func InstallApp()
    Local $index = (@GUI_CtrlId - $buttonInstall[0])/2
    
    If GUICtrlRead($labelInstalled[$index]) = "Installed" Then
        GUICtrlSetData($labelInstalled[$index],"Not Installed")
        GUICtrlSetColor($labelInstalled[$index],0xFF0000)
        
        GUICtrlSetData($buttonInstall[$index],"Install")
    Else
        GUICtrlSetData($labelInstalled[$index],"Installed")
        GUICtrlSetColor($labelInstalled[$index],0x00FF00)
        
        GUICtrlSetData($buttonInstall[$index],"Remove")
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func Quit()
    Exit
EndFunc