muncherw Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) I have a text file with a list of nearly 1000 computer names ie. adm-psaltyds adm-airwolf adm-geosoft etc. I'd like to populate a combo box with these names. The letters in front of the hyphen are broken up so I'll have multiple boxes with different sets of computers. Anyway, I'm not sure where to start. I don't have any code yet and I'm not asking for anyone to write anything for me, all I'd like is an idea of how to get started. So far I'm thinking maybe I can read in lines from the file to create a variable that it uses but I'm not sure if that makes sense. I should also state that the reason I don't want to just write the names into the code is that the computer names change frequently (when people quit, get hired, change last name, move to different job) so it's much easier to just generate a new list of PC names. In fact, the way I get the names is with AutoIt so maybe instead of writing them to a text file I can some how throw them into the combo box. I was looking at many of the _GUICtrlComboBox functions but none of them hit me as something that made sense for what I wanted. Thanks in advance. Edited January 2, 2009 by muncherw Other People's Stuff:Andy Flesner's AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide[topic="34302"]Locodarwin's ExcelCom_UDF[/topic][topic="61090"]MrCreatorR's Opera Library[/topic] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFox Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 (edited) @muncherw Look at GuiCtrlCreateCheckBox or GuiCtrlCreateCombo and GuiCtrlSetData Example : #include <GuiConstants.au3> Opt("GuiOnEventMode", 1) GUICreate("GUI", 300, 300) GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "_Exit") $ck_1 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox 1", 5, 5) $ck_2 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Checkbox 2", 5, 25) GUICtrlCreateButton("Check !", 5, 50, 50, 20) GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "_Check") $cbo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("Combo !",150,5,80,20) GUICtrlSetData(-1, "Exit|Nothing","Combo !") GUISetState() While 1 Sleep(250) If GUICtrlRead($cbo) = 'Exit' Then _Exit() EndIf WEnd Func _Check() If GUICtrlRead($ck_1) = $GUI_CHECKED Then MsgBox(64, 'ck_1', '$ck_1 checked !') EndIf If GUICtrlRead($ck_2) = $GUI_CHECKED Then MsgBox(64, 'ck_2', '$ck_2 checked !') EndIf EndFunc ;==>_Check Func _Exit() Exit EndFunc ;==>_Exit Cheers, FireFox Edited December 31, 2008 by FireFox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncherw Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Thanks, Firefox. I've already got some scripts using combo boxes so I'm somewhat familiar. I guess I do need to use GuiCtrlSetData but it's really getting it to pull from the text file instead of having so specifically write it in the script that I'm confused about. Other People's Stuff:Andy Flesner's AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide[topic="34302"]Locodarwin's ExcelCom_UDF[/topic][topic="61090"]MrCreatorR's Opera Library[/topic] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncherw Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 (edited) In my gui I have this, which works fine. $ChampDropdown = GUICtrlCreateCombo("NONE", 30, 33, 220, 25) GUICtrlSetData(-1, "adm-psaltyds|adm-airwolf|adm-geosoft") GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 8, 400, 0, "Arial") This is from the helpfile. I've just added a variable ($lineComplete) to store all the lines. This also works. $file = FileOpen("list.txt", 0) ; Check if file opened for reading OK If $file = -1 Then MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.") Exit EndIf $lineComplete = "" ; Read in lines of text until the EOF is reached While 1 $line = FileReadLine($file) If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop $lineComplete = $lineComplete & $line Wend FileClose($file) But if I take that bit of code and try to paste it into the same script as the first one then I always get the error that it can't open my text file. I haven't even bothered to change any of the gui yet to try to use the variable, I just put that code at the begining of the script when I get the error. ---------------------------------- Woah. Total bonehead manuever on my part- I copied both scripts to the same directory but when I was working with them I still had the second script open from the old ocation and was doing my testing on it instead of the one in the same folder. Woopsie daisies! Edited January 2, 2009 by muncherw Other People's Stuff:Andy Flesner's AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide[topic="34302"]Locodarwin's ExcelCom_UDF[/topic][topic="61090"]MrCreatorR's Opera Library[/topic] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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