Tabbing through defined GUICtrls

[Lorenzen]

Hi

I've been writing autoIt for some years now, and have created several larger code-solutions - i love autoIt. However I've encountered a problem lately when using GUI features. I cannot choose what ctrls to tab through. It seems that the tabbing goes through labels aswell as buttons and inputboxen.

Can anybody help me? (im leaving work now - ill be back in 16 hours or so)

thx

[Melba23]

Lorenzen,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum.

I do not get tabstops on labels, only on controls where the $WS_TABSTOP style is applied (like buttons and inputs) - as you can see from the script below. But if you want to remove a control from the TABSTOP list, you can do it like this:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#include <WinAPI.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

GUICtrlCreateLabel("One", 10, 10, 50, 20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Two", 10, 30, 50, 20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Three", 10, 50, 50, 20)

GUICtrlCreateButton("One", 10, 100, 80, 30)

GUICtrlCreateButton("Two", 10, 140, 80, 30)
_WinAPI_SetWindowLong(GUICtrlGetHandle(-1), $GWL_STYLE, BitAND(_WinAPI_GetWindowLong(GUICtrlGetHandle(-1), $GWL_STYLE), BitNOT($WS_TABSTOP)))

GUICtrlCreateButton("Three", 10, 180, 80, 30)

GUISetState()

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch

WEnd

Not the easiest syntax, but quite understandable, I hope!

M23

[Lorenzen]

Thank you for ur reply - it helped me sort out what was wrong (debugging). The problem was my code - my project has 2000+ code lines, and a few inwanted controls had snuck into the code :/

Thx again Melba

[jennico]

well, there's an easier and more understandable way to get rid of the "forced styles" : GUICtrlSetStyle. don't forget to add the styles you need, because otherwise you will lose notification and other necessary things, so look it up in helpfile. some examples:

;Example For Button
;==================
GUICtrlCreateButton(.......)
GUICtrlSetStyle(-1,$BS_NOTIFY)

;Example for Icon
;================
GUICtrlCreateIcon(........)
GUICtrlSetStyle(-1,BitOR($SS_NOTIFY,$SS_ICON))

;Example for Checkbox
;====================
GUICtrlCreateCheckbox(........)
GUICtrlSetStyle(-1,$BS_AUTOCHECKBOX)

cheers j.

Edited December 31, 2010 by jennico

[Melba23]

jennico,

The advantage of my "long and complicated" code is that you do not need to know which styles have been applied previously - the code detects the currently set styles and just subtracts the $WS_TABSTOP.

M23

[Mat]

You could combine them:

GUICtrlSetStyle(-1, BitAND(_WinAPI_GetWindowLong(GUICtrlGetHandle(-1), $GWL_STYLE), BitNOT($WS_TABSTOP)))

[Melba23]

Mat,

If I were a betting man, I would put a fair sum on your code being transformed into mine by the interpreter when it runs.

M23

[jennico]

the advantage is, for self-autoit-made controls, that there is no need to detect the style, because you can look it up in helpfile. the "long and complicated" way (not my words) is well suitable for "alien" windows.