Toggle Button UDF

[wraithdu]

I've been working on this one for a while now, tweaking here and there. A special thanks to Melba23 for his help in testing and suggestions.

This UDF creates two-state toggle buttons: click once to depress the button, click again to release it. They keyboard Space and Enter keys can also toggle the buttons. An optional user function is called on each state change and passed a parameter that can be used with the included functions to get information about the button that was clicked.

There are two versions of this UDF included in the archive with associated examples. One 'normal' UDF and a second written with AutoItObject (a big congrats to the AIO team!). Both are well documented and the examples are easy to follow.

Technical Note and Warning:

Most people who use this UDF can safely ignore the following. Under certain circumstances AutoIt can deadlock when calling a callback from within a callback (for example using SendMessage to send a subclassed button a message from within a mouse hook). I've experienced odd and inconsistent behavior in this regard. As it stands, both versions of the UDF work perfectly. However care should be taken when using these UDFs with other AutoIt callbacks in your scripts. This is especially true with the AutoItObject version since all AIO methods are implemented as callbacks.

ToggleButton.zip

Edited February 25, 2010 by wraithdu

[Melba23]

wraithdu,

Pleased to see that you did decide to release. Nice to have a toggle other than the classic checkbox/radio.

M23

[playlet]

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Edited August 18, 2016 by playlet

[funkey]

Nice script!

But what is wrong with the default toggle button?

Global $gui = GUICreate("Test", 155, 155)
For $i = 0 To 15
 GUICtrlCreateCheckbox($i + 1, 10 + (35 * Mod($i, 4)), 10 + (35 * Floor($i / 4)), 30, 30, 0x1000) ;$BS_PUSHLIKE
Next

GUISetState()

Do
Until GUIGetMsg() = -3

[wraithdu]

... I'm gonna go shoot myself now.

[corgano]

LOL

Couldn't get the udf to work. I got this:

>"C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.exe" /run /prod /ErrorStdOut /in "C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\New folder\ToggleButton\button_ex3.au3" /autoit3dir "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3" /UserParams

+>19:16:28 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.2.0.1.22 Environment(Language:0409 Keyboard:00000409 OS:WIN_7/ CPU:X64 OS:X86)

>Running AU3Check (1.54.14.0) params:-q -d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6 from:C:\Program Files\AutoIt3

C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\New folder\ToggleButton\ToggleButton.au3(336,42) : ERROR: OnAutoItExitRegister(): undefined function.

OnAutoItExitRegister("_ToggleButtonExit")

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Users\Jon\Desktop\New folder\ToggleButton\button_ex3.au3 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

!>19:16:28 AU3Check ended.rc:2

>Exit code: 0 Time: 1.734

[wraithdu]

Get with the times! The UDF requires the newest release of AutoIt with the OnAutoItExitRegister function (not that it even matters anymore...).

Edited February 26, 2010 by wraithdu

[Yoriz]

corgano you should update your version of autoit, the error you have

ERROR: OnAutoItExitRegister(): undefined function.

is because 15th January, 2010 - v3.3.4.0

OnAutoItExit() has been removed. See the new functions OnAutoItExitRegister() and OnAutoItExitUnregister().

well done wraithdu, its good to see another exapmle of AutoItObject in action

Edited February 26, 2010 by Yoriz

[MilesAhead]

If I copyright this:

OnAutoItExitRegister("OnAutoItExit")

can I please get $1 royalty every time somebody uses it?