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Hello, I have used this forum to get help many times. I thought it was time to (hopefully) help others. I created a script that reads a text file with a list of videos, displays the videos in a GUI with checkboxes next to the names, and displays the selected videos. This will become a part of a larger script I am creating to test a video player. The tough part for me was creating the GUI and Dynamic list of videos. I had a lot of trouble finding samples to help me, but finally found one written by Melba23. The link is in the code, so he gets credit for helping! I also have not used arrays much and they are very picky about looping through the arrays without getting the dreaded error " Array variable has incorrect number of subscripts or subscript dimension range exceeded." However diligence paid off! To run this code, take the video names commented below and create a videos.txt file in your script execution directory. You can put however many video names in this list. Thus the dynamic features of the code. Cheers! Jibberish #include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> #include <StringConstants.au3> #include <array.au3> #include <File.au3> #include <GUIConstantsEx.au3> Local $sMediaFile = @ScriptDir & "\videos.txt" ;~ Videos in videos.txt are: ;~ bbb_1080_60s.mp4 ;~ bbb_1080_60s_1.mp4 ;~ bbb_1080_60s_2.mp4 ;~ tos_4K_60s_HEVC.mp4 ;~ tos_4K_60s_HEVC_1.mp4 ;~ tos_4K_60s_HEVC_2.mp4 ;~ ;~ Additional videos can be added to this list. The functions are Dynamic. Dim $aMediaManifest Local $aArrayFile Local $aVideos Local $sVideoName Local $i ; MAIN ; Put the Video File Names into an Array _FileReadToArray($sMediaFile, $aArrayFile) Local $iVideoCount = UBound($aArrayFile) -1 ; Get the number of videos - 1 to prevent errors _ArrayDelete($aArrayFile, 0) ;Counter just gets in the way ; Move backwards through the array deleting the blank lines For $i = $iVideoCount - 1 To 0 Step -1 If $aArrayFile[$i] = "" Then _ArrayDelete($aArrayFile, $i) EndIf Next $aVideos = DisplayVideos($aArrayFile) $iVideoCount = UBound($aArrayFile) -1 _ArrayDisplay($aVideos) ; Display the checked videos ;~ End of MAIN ;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ; ; GUI to display Videos in checkboxes ; ;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Func DisplayVideos($aArrayFile) Local $iTop = -1 Local $iLeft = -1 Local $iWidth Local $iHeight = $iVideoCount * 30 Local $iL = 10 Local $iT = 10 Local $iRow = 0 Local $aVideo Local $iA = 0, $iB = 0 Local $sFill = "" $iMMCount = UBound($aArrayFile) $iMMNewCount = $iMMCount - 1 Local $aGUICheckbox[$iMMCount] Local $aCheckedVideos[$iMMCount] ; Put the Video File Names into an Array $hGUI = GUICreate("Video Checkbox", $iLeft, $iTop, $iWidth, $iHeight) GUICtrlCreateLabel("Videos", 180, $iT) $iT = $iT + 30 ; This is a great example of using arrays to create GUI check boxes or radio buttons For $i = 0 To $iMMNewCount Step 1 $sMP4Text = $aArrayFile[$i] $aGUICheckbox[$i] = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox($sMP4Text, 30, $iT) $iT += 30 Next $idClose1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Start", $iL, $iT) GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) ; This section reads the checkboxes and puts the video names in an array in their original position ; in case this is important (as it is to me) ; This was the toughest part to code, and I found no samples online until I saw Melba23's sample here: ; https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/119843-dynamic-gui-problem/#comment-832672 ; I got this working with only a little modification. THANK YOU MELBA23 While 1 $nMsg = GUIGetMsg() Switch $nMsg Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Exit Case $idClose1 For $i = 0 To $iMMNewCount Step 1 Switch GUICtrlRead($aGUICheckbox[$i]) Case $GUI_CHECKED $aCheckedVideos[$i] = $aArrayFile[$i] Case $GUI_UNCHECKED EndSwitch Next ExitLoop EndSwitch WEnd GUIDelete($hGUI) Return $aCheckedVideos EndFunc ;==>DisplayVideos