I have a window, created by AutoHotkey, with one button and one edit control on it.
What I am trying to do is to bring back the input focus to the Edit control after I click the button. By means of WinSpy (many thanks to Robert Kuster), I have the following information about the Edit control.
Handle : 0x00330786 (changes every time I start the application)
Control ID : 4
Class : Edit
Window Title : some window title
Parent Window Class : AutoHotkeyGUI
Below is the statement I am using in my script.
ControlFocus, MyEdit, some window title
BTW, AutoHotkey help suggests to leave the control name and replace the window title with HWND of the target control as an alternative. Please guide on how to accomplish this.
Below is a piece of Autohotkey script using
GuiControl, Focus, ControlName
in order to change the input focus to the Edit control (namely Completion) after button "Show My Progress" is clicked.
%WinTitle% = some window title
Gui, Add, Text, vLabel cWhite, Reading Completion
Gui, Add, Edit, vCompletion ym w40 ; The ym option starts a new column of controls.
Gui, Add, Progress, vMyProgress w300 h30 xp+50 yp-5
Gui, Add, Button, xp yp+50, Show My Progress
GuiControl,, Completion, %iniCompletion%
Gui, Show, h140, %WinTitle%
ControlClick, Show My Progress, %WinTitle%
**GuiControl, Focus, Completion**
return
ButtonShowMyProgress:
Gui, Submit, NoHide ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable.
MyCompletionPercentage:=(Completion / (PageEnd-PageStart+1)) * 100
PercentageRounded:=Round(MyCompletionPercentage,0)
GuiControl,, MyProgress, %PercentageRounded%
**GuiControl, Focus, Completion**
return
Many thanks to MCL and BGM for their comments ...
If I understand correctly, you have your own GUI built with AHK. Why
don't you use GuiControl, Focus? – MCL
MCL has a point. The GuiControl is autohotkey's way of working with it's own controls. You would only use ControlFocus if you are working with controls for
external windows. MCL - maybe you should present that as an answer. – BGM
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I am trying to query a hotkey from a user using the hotkey gui control. It displays most of the entered hotkeys correctly. When I press one of the media keys (play/pause, previous track, next track, volume up/down/mute), though, the input just displays a single character. E.g. when I press "volume up":
When I output the entered key afterwards however, it is correctly displayed:
Minimal example:
Gui, Add, Hotkey, x10 y10 w150 h20 vMyHotkey, %MyHotkey%
Gui, Add, Button, x10 y40 w150 h20 gOK, OK
Gui, Show
return
OK:
Gui, Submit
Msgbox %MyHotkey%
return
Why is the hotkey not displayed correctly in the hotkey input gui control?
I'm trying to have a gui close but leave the script running. This is because I want to do other actions if the user chooses to escape the GUI by either hitting esc or simply clicking the 'X' in the upper right. I don't understand how I would leave the script running but close the gui. GUI close doesn't seem to do anything when clicking esc or the X. I've scanned through the GUI docs and cannot figure it out. They always run exitapp, but I'm not ready to exitapp, I need to do other things.
Gui, Add, Text, ,To cancel, press ESCAPE or close this window.
Gui, Show, w320 h80, Downloads
GuiClose:
GuiEscape:
; Continue on to do other things here!!!!
WinActivate ahk_exe notepad++.exe
; do things...
exitapp
What you're describing sounds like what I wanted to do, too. It was a lot of slogging and piecemealing but I think what you are looking for is Gui, Cancel Take a look at the code below and see if that doesn't solve your problem.
It doesn't use ExitApp and it doesn't destroy the window if you want to pop it up later. You'll have to figure how to place the rest of your code, but I believe this is what you are asking.
;Set the GUI window
Gui, Add, Text,, Hit Escape to Clear window when it is active
#F9:: ;show the window with WindowsKey-F9
Gui, Show,
return
;set the escape key to clear GUI window
GuiEscape: ; Note: single colon here, not double
Gui, Cancel
Return
It's a little trickier if you have multiple GUI windows. You must name each:
;Set the two GUI windows. In example, First is labeled as FirstGUI and second as SecondGUI. Notice how you separate with single colon.
Gui, FirstGUI:Add, Text,, Hit Escape to Clear FirstGUI window when it is active
Gui, SecondGUI:Add, Text,, Hit Escape to Clear SecondGUI window when it is active
#F9:: ;show the two windows ("xCenter y700" is used to prevent the windows from stacking.)
Gui, FirstGUI:Show, xCenter y700, Window Title of First GUI
Gui, SecondGUI:Show, xCenter y900, Window Title of Second GUI
return
;set the escape key to clear for each Gui independently.
FirstGUIGuiEscape: ; Note that you must add the Gui Name (FirstGUI) to the beginning of the "GuiEscape:" command and also name it in the following:
Gui, FirstGUI:Cancel
Return
SecondGUIGuiEscape: ; And here you must add SecondGUI as noted above.
Gui, SecondGUI:Cancel
Return
Answering a little late but hope this works for you or someone else!
They assume in the documentation that by clicking x, you'd want the script to close.
So they show ExitApp as an example.
If you don't want to do that though, of course no need to do it.
I think what you're after is destroying the gui:
GuiClose:
GuiEscape:
Gui, Destroy
return
I am new to AHK, and am trying to make a script that opens a GUI with a short list of commonly-used symbols that can be chosen, and then be automatically be pasted.
My code so far:
!+q::
Gui, Add, ListBox, w100 h100, vSymbolChoice, ™|©|°|π|☭|☢|⚠|ツ|•|Ω
Gui, Add, Button, Default, Submit
Gui, Add, Button, default, Cancel
Gui, Show
return
ButtonSubmit:
Gui, Submit
Sleep, 1000
Send, %SymbolChoice%
Gui, Destroy
ButtonCancel:
Gui, Destroy
It creates the GUI and the ListBox but doesn't paste the symbol when I have it selcted and press submit.
Also, is there a better way to detect if a text field is selected than just waiting a second and hoping the user selected the field in that time?
; auto-execute section
; create and show the Gui
Gui, Add, ListBox, w100 h130 vSymbolChoice, ™|©|°|π|☭|☢|⚠|ツ|•|Ω
Gui, Add, Button, Default, Submit
Gui, Add, Button,, Hide ; you can't have two default buttons on a Gui
Gui, Show
return
; Press Alt+Shift+Q to show the hidden Gui after ButtonSubmit or ButtonHide
!+q:: Gui, Show
ButtonSubmit:
GuiControlGet, SymbolChoice ; get the control's contents stored in the variable SymbolChoice (retrieves the ListBox's current selection)
Gui, Submit ; saves the contents of this control to its associated variable SymbolChoice
SendInput, %SymbolChoice%
return
; Hide the Gui
ButtonHide:
Gui, hide
return
; Press ESC or close the Gui to terminate the script
GuiClose:
Esc:: ExitApp
For details see GUI in the documentation.
I have been working on this for a while and I have no idea how to fix this issue. I want to create a custom GUI in AutoHotKey (AHK), I would post ont he AHK Forums but I haven't been able to get my account to work so I am posting here (sorry if this is the wrong place). The ideal state is that I can paste in a list of indiscriminate length from a list, it is almost always return delimited, see the picture below. I would be happy with pasting 10 items in. I have built the GUI but I can not paste the values in with the shortcut Ctrl+v. All that happens is the first value goes into the first cell and I cannot figure out how to get the rest to paste in.
I need to be able to read the values into an array in the AHK when I click continue. Thanks for your help in advance. Below is my code to create the GUI.
Gui, Add, Text,, Please add the List that you want (10 Max at once)
Gui Add, Edit, vButton1,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton2,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton3,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton4,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton5,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton6,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton7,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton8,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton9,
Gui Add, Edit, vButton0,
Gui Add, Button, x200 y270 w88 h26 vButton02 gGoCont, Continue
Gui Add, Button, x290 y270 w88 h26 vButton03 gGoQuit, Cancel
Gui Show
return
GoCont:
{
MsgBox %Button1%
MsgBox %Button2%
}
return
GoQuit:
Gui Destroy
return
If you can stand a txt file with one name per line, called "names.txt" in the same folder as your ahk script, try something like this:
Add this to the top (it reads in your names.txt file one line at a time):
Loop, Read, names.txt
x%A_Index% := A_LoopReadLine
START EDIT (per comments):
Alternatively, if you already copied to the clipboard the several names from a spreadsheet or website table or other list, then put it this way:
Loop, parse, Clipboard, `n, `r
x%A_Index% := A_LoopField
Either way,
END EDIT
Then, replace all 10 of your edit box lines with these two lines:
Loop, 10 ; or more?
Gui Add, Edit, vButton%A_Index%, % x%A_Index%
The rest is just as you had it.
Let us know, Have fun,
Big thanks to #PGilm
Gui, PasteGUI:Add, Text,, Please add the Names that you want to Process.
Counter := 0
Loop, parse, Clipboard, `n, `r
{
x%A_Index% := A_LoopField
Counter++
}
Counter--
Loop, %Counter% ; Dynamic List length
Gui PasteGUI:Add, Edit, vButton%A_Index%, % x%A_Index%
Gui PasteGUI:Add, Button, x200 y270 w88 h26 vButton02 gGoCont Default, Continue
Gui PasteGUI:Add, Button, x290 y270 w88 h26 vButton03 gGoQuit, Cancel
Gui, PasteGUI:Show
}
Return
GoCont:
{
Loop, %Counter%
{
CODE TO PROCESS MY EACH NAME
}
MsgBox Done!
Gui Destroy
}
Return
GoQuit:
Gui Destroy
Return
Lastly if I want to add a keyboard shortcut to work then I mapped in one where I put the below line at the top of the code
PasteIn:
{
And then close the bracket at the end of the code and then add the shortcut. (the below can be added to the bottom of the code to work) this uses the Ctrl+v keyboard shortcut.
}
^v:: GoTo, PasteIn
Need a little help with a text box and a button..
I have been trying to experiment with "text box" and a "button"..but am not able to do it... I need to take the "values" from the "textbox" field and append it to the button action. i.e., whatever the input is given by the user... need to append it to a "URL"
Example:
If the user is types in "login" as input in the text field, need to take this input and append it to "http://www.google.com/login"
Before action:
http://google.com
AfterAction:
http://google.com/login
Kindly help
Here is my Code:
Gui, Add, Edit, x162 y80 w140 h30 vUserInput, Type here
Gui, Add, Button, x182 y130 w100 h30 gAction, %"Action1" Action1:=http://www.google.om/
; Generated using SmartGUI Creator 4.0
Gui, Show, x127 y87 h379 w479, New GUI Window
Return
Action1:
Gui, Submit, NoHide
guiControlGet, txtVar,, UserInput
guiControl,, UserInput, %( txt++Action1 )
GuiClose:
ExitApp
return
Thanks and cheers.
Okay, you have a few misconceptions and a LOT of errors.
The use of := -vs- % is one of your misunderstandings.
Also, you neglected to put gAction1 as the goto label for your button. You had gAction, but there was no sub called Action.
Another problem is that you have not placed return at the end of your Action1 label.
That means that after the action is completed, the script will continue on to end the script...
You should really read the AutoHotkey Documentation! It will save you a lot of time and headache. Also, you should look at some simple examples.
However, try the script below. Whatever you type into the box, after you push the button, will be appended to the url.
;Now, it may be easier to define your re-usable variable here like this:
;myurl = http://www.google.com/
myurl := "http://www.google.com/" ;this is exactly same as the previous line
Gui, Add, Edit, x162 y80 w300 h30 r1 vUserInput, Type here
Gui, Add, Button, x182 y130 w100 h30 gAction1, Action1 ;The last parameter is JUST the text on the button
;If you wanted to use a variable for the name instead of straight text, you would do this:
;Gui, Add, Button, x182 y130 w100 h30 gAction, %myurl%
;But what you were trying to do is to *assign* a variable instead of *using* a variable - that is, you CAN'T use action1:=value as the variable name
Gui, Show, x127 y87 h379 w479, New GUI Window
Return
Action1: ;the name of this label is the same as the g-action of your button except without the "g" part.
Gui, Submit, NoHide
guiControlGet, UserInput ;you can simply use the edit control's v-name as the output variable
thisurl = %myurl%%UserInput%
guiControl,,UserInput, %thisurl% ;now set the url back to the control
return ;if you don't put return here, the script will continue on and run the GuiClose label...
GuiClose:
ExitApp
return ;you can have this, but you don't need it here since the script will have ended before it gets run anyway.