Wondering how to make an information box while the script runs.

[kanethekiller]

What I am looking to do is have a small box on the screen that shows current information about the script that is running. In this case, it is for a game, so whenever it mines an ore, I want it to show it as something like "Ore Mined: 15" I would also like for the little info box to show how long the script has been running. I have seen this done with several other scripts but I never quite found out how to do it.

Thanks in advance. (Note I will try to find a picture, that better illustrates what I'm attempting to do just in case I wasn't very clear.)

[SpookMeister]

Personally I like to use tooltip for things like that when possible. It is fairly unobtrusive and simple to implement.

[kanethekiller]

I'm looking for something to be running constantly, is easy to see the progress of the program... and is a bit bigger. But I do thank you very much for the idea.

[logcomptechs]

I'm looking for something to be running constantly, is easy to see the progress of the program... and is a bit bigger. But I do thank you very much for the idea.

If the script is in a loop, the tool tip will be displayed as long as the script is running. Have you look into creating a small GUI for this purpose?

[kanethekiller]

What I am looking to do is have a small box on the screen that shows current information about the script that is running. In this case, it is for a game, so whenever it mines an ore, I want it to show it as something like "Ore Mined: 15" I would also like for the little info box to show how long the script has been running. I have seen this done with several other scripts but I never quite found out how to do it.

Thanks in advance. (Note I will try to find a picture, that better illustrates what I'm attempting to do just in case I wasn't very clear.)

If the script is in a loop, the tool tip will be displayed as long as the script is running. Have you look into creating a small GUI for this purpose?

Not sure how to make a GUI to be honest, so not until you mentioned it. As far as the tool tip, I wanted a large white box with the info if at all possible, not really the small yellow one.

[logcomptechs]

Not sure how to make a GUI to be honest, so not until you mentioned it. As far as the tool tip, I wanted a large white box with the info if at all possible, not really the small yellow one.

You can display as much info as you want.

Example

$orevar = 1
$othervar = 1

ToolTip("Ore: " & $orevar & @CRLF & "Other Var: " & $othervar, 0 , 0, "")

That is just a example, but as you can see, this allow you display as many Variables, as you wanted, on different lines. This would be 10x easier than building a GUI for everything you wanna display, I use tooltips all the time, it works great.

Edited March 25, 2009 by logcomptechs

[SpookMeister]

Another example:

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "_Terminate")

While 1
    Sleep(100) ; usually a good idea to put this in so you dont max your cpu
    $pos = MouseGetPos()
    $msg = "x=" & $pos[0] & " y=" & $pos[1] & @CRLF & "Color=x" & Hex(PixelGetColor($pos[0], $pos[1]), 6)
    ToolTip($msg)
WEnd

Func _Terminate()
    Exit 0
EndFunc   ;==>_Terminate

[kanethekiller]

If I were to create a GUI for each variable how exactly could I do it, I have no experience at all with even the concept or linking it to the script

[Authenticity]

You don't create GUI window for each variable, you create controls for that, whether you prefer to handle it via a tree-view control or input boxes...

Edit: To get the amount of time your script is running you can first initialize a variable in the header with TimerInit() and use the TimerDiff() with the first variable you got in TimerInit() to get the differences.

Edited March 25, 2009 by Authenticity

[kanethekiller]

Hmm I may be stuck using the tool tip command until I get a hang of GUI theory... so another question is, how could I make using variables an active constantly running timer of how long the script has been running, using the tool tip command. I figure it has something to do with the timer start and hosting it as a variable, but just wanting to be sure.

[Authenticity]

HotKeySet('{ESC}', '_EXIT')

Dim $iInit = TimerInit()
Dim $aPos
Dim $sMessage

While 1
    Sleep(20)
    $aPos = MouseGetPos()
    $sMessage = 'X: ' & $aPos[0] & @LF & 'Y: ' & $aPos[1] & @LF & @LF & 'Process execution time: ' & Int(TimerDiff($iInit)/1000) & '(seconds)'
    
    ToolTip($sMessage, @DesktopWidth-200, 0)
WEnd

Func _EXIT()
    Exit
EndFunc

Similar to SpookMeister's post. You can format the time to HH:MM:SS using the Date.au3 library or code yourself function.