Helpfile-Changes

This page is for keeping track of changes currently in the process of being made to the AutoIt3 helpfile and UDFs by the MVPs.

For reporting issues please refer to the Help File Issues thread. Thanks.

Doc changes

• Magic number removal (Mat)
  • Document existing constants (in progress)
  • Create new constants where required (making a list)
  • Replace magic numbers in existing examples (Mat working on script to automate)

• AZJIO post #135
  • RegRead type table (Mat), in progress - from guinness
  • IniRead return type (done)
  • _ArrayDisplay $sheader (done in txtLibFunctions, not in UDF header)
  • _GUICtrlComboBox_ReplaceEditSel
  • _GUICtrlComboBox_ShowDropDown
  • _GUICtrlComboBox_AddString
  • _GUICtrlComboBox_SetCueBanner

• Robjong SRE section
  • Currently in progress of expanding and improving the regular expression documentation.

• General Example improvements
  • Update examples to use multiple example functionality.
  • Remove magic numbers!
  • Make sure no permanent changes are made to system.
  • Update examples to make use of new AutoIt features where appropriate.
  • Re-write GUI examples (guinness), in progress
  • Sort include statements in examples and remove duplicates. If duplicates are found then take advantage of multiple examples. (guinness)
  • Remove unused functions.
  • Strip v2 data.

UDF changes

• Fixed buffer sizes (as per thread and ticket 1336)
• WinAPIEx Splitting (Jpm)
• _PathSplit to use SRE version provided by DXRW4E