[Resolved] I updated UDFs but now get an error ...

[Diana (Cda)]

Because I use AI as a portable app and don't install, I dl the latest version and updated the UDFs by merely extracting and overwriting. I've checked and I have all the UDFs in my include folder that the script requests, it's just that I now get an error on a file that has never had an error before.

It says this:

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AutoIt Error
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Line 32  (File "L:\AutoIt\APP- AutoIt\0-  Scripts\SHORTCUT- create FF shortcut (desktop,PromptsName+URL) home.au3"):

$h_GUI = GUICreate($shortcutTo,$i_GUIWidth,$i_GUIHeight,(@DesktopWidth - $i_GUIWidth)/2,(@DesktopHeight -$i_GUIHeight)/2,$WS_CAPTION + $WS_SYSMENU)
$h_GUI = GUICreate($shortcutTo,$i_GUIWidth,$i_GUIHeight,(@DesktopWidth - $i_GUIWidth)/2,(@DesktopHeight -$i_GUIHeight)/2,^ ERROR

Error: Variable used without being declared.
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OK   
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I didn't write the script so can't figure out how to fix. This has worked forever until I did this overwrite and am wondering how it could go wrong when all I did was update the UDFs in my folder. Anyone know what this symptom means and how to fix? It worked before, the script shouldn't need fixing, it's just to figure out what's happened.

Thanks. <g>

Edited December 28, 2008 by Diana (Cda)

[FireFox]

@Diana

Maybe...

#Include <WindowsConstants.au3>

Cheers, FireFox.

[Malkey]

Because I use AI as a portable app and don't install, I dl the latest version and updated the UDFs by merely extracting and overwriting. I've checked and I have all the UDFs in my include folder that the script requests, it's just that I now get an error on a file that has never had an error before.

It says this:

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AutoIt Error
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Line 32  (File "L:\AutoIt\APP- AutoIt\0-  Scripts\SHORTCUT- create FF shortcut (desktop,PromptsName+URL) home.au3"):

$h_GUI = GUICreate($shortcutTo,$i_GUIWidth,$i_GUIHeight,(@DesktopWidth - $i_GUIWidth)/2,(@DesktopHeight -$i_GUIHeight)/2,$WS_CAPTION + $WS_SYSMENU)
$h_GUI = GUICreate($shortcutTo,$i_GUIWidth,$i_GUIHeight,(@DesktopWidth - $i_GUIWidth)/2,(@DesktopHeight -$i_GUIHeight)/2,^ ERROR

Error: Variable used without being declared.
---------------------------
OK   
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I didn't write the script so can't figure out how to fix. This has worked forever until I did this overwrite and am wondering how it could go wrong when all I did was update the UDFs in my folder. Anyone know what this symptom means and how to fix? It worked before, the script shouldn't need fixing, it's just to figure out what's happened.

Thanks. <g>

In the latest stable AutoIt version (3.2.12.1), the Global Constants have been re-organized in the include files.

Your error is pointing to the variable, $WS_CAPTION. which is declared in the WindowsConstants.au3 include file.

So add

#Include <WindowsConstants.au3>

at the top of your script you are running (home.au3), as FireFox suggested.

Should another "Error: Variable used without being declared." message appear, notice where the " ^ ERROR " is pointing to in the line above it. It should be pointing to the beginning of the variable which needs to be declared in the script you are running.

[FireFox]

@Malkey

There are manythings as you said that I think Diana knows... (member 2,000+ and 500+ replys )

Cheers, FireFox.

[GEOSoft]

In the latest stable AutoIt version (3.2.12.1), the Global Constants have been re-organized in the include files.

Your error is pointing to the variable, $WS_CAPTION. which is declared in the WindowsConstants.au3 include file.

So add

#Include <WindowsConstants.au3>

at the top of your script you are running (home.au3), as FireFox suggested.

Should another "Error: Variable used without being declared." message appear, notice where the " ^ ERROR " is pointing to in the line above it. It should be pointing to the beginning of the variable which needs to be declared in the script you are running.

Malkey, 3.2.12.1 is not the latest release version. See the site announcements.

Diana, have a look at the Script breaking changes page in the help file

[Diana (Cda)]

In the latest stable AutoIt version (3.2.12.1), the Global Constants have been re-organized in the include files.

Your error is pointing to the variable, $WS_CAPTION. which is declared in the WindowsConstants.au3 include file.

So add

#Include <WindowsConstants.au3>

at the top of your script you are running (home.au3), as FireFox suggested.

Should another "Error: Variable used without being declared." message appear, notice where the " ^ ERROR " is pointing to in the line above it. It should be pointing to the beginning of the variable which needs to be declared in the script you are running.

Thank you! I didn't realize that that sort of thing happened for sure, though obviously something changed within the UDFs since I did nothing to the script itself. First time I've "updated" the include folder at all when a bunch of new scripts that I was trying off the forum wouldn't work (incl. Paulie's Beep Music one).

Thanks for making me think of a different approach, too. I hadn't figured out how to use that knowledge for scripts others have done re referencing the UDFs (no problems for my own, of course). Seems so very obvious now in hindsight <sigh>. I fixed this one _and_ I could finally get Paulie's to work. I was stumped for a moment when 3 UDFs came up but then just added them one by one to Paulie's Beep Music script until it worked.

Thanks for being so kind. I know it all seems so easy to many of you, but for me it isn't always (though progressively getting easier by fair to good increments now), which many here don't understand. The difference between me and others: I _am_ a computer power user though weak in "programming"; and I persevere long after others give up. Many of you will laugh (and you know who you are) but I am the most knowledgeable person in my sphere about computer software, and they all come to me with questions on how to do things which I can 99% of the time can answer so that they can resolve their problem (okay, meanies, pick yourselves off the floor, I _get_ that you think that's funny!). <g>

So thanks once again! I shouldn't have trouble with this particular issue again now that I will update the UDFs regularly. Phew! <g>

Edited December 28, 2008 by Diana (Cda)