ISN AutoIt Studio [old thread]

[legend]

In kida it's making a kind of box, with lines, when you drag and drop example a button, that means it easier to see exactly where

the buttons should be, so it matches the right position, with other buttons. If you know what I mean, is it possible that can be added ?

[ISI360]

I´m not really sure if i understand everything correctly but when you in the formstudio an click on the Settings Button (last button from the right side) you can enable the option "Show grid in GUI".

Maybe this is what you want

[legend]

hmm i can't find that option, is it possible that you can take a screenshot `?

[ISI360]

of course:

[tk1]

I apologize for not having read through all 18 pages of this post.  I just installed your Studio, and went to look at FormStudio 2 (within .  Even though I have chosen English as the language, in FormStudio 2 it is mostly all still in (German?).  I haven't been able to find a way to change that.  When I go to file/settings (within ISN AutoIt Studio) the language is still set at English.

Thanks,

tk

[tk1]

Another question.  It's possible to start a project from an existing .au3 script, then create a form for it.  What if I have already started the form creation process in the script, is there a way within ISN AutoIt Studio to read the script for all the GUI... information and present that in FormStudio for editing/modifying?

[Rex]

I apologize for not having read through all 18 pages of this post.  I just installed your Studio, and went to look at FormStudio 2 (within .  Even though I have chosen English as the language, in FormStudio 2 it is mostly all still in (German?).  I haven't been able to find a way to change that.  When I go to file/settings (within ISN AutoIt Studio) the language is still set at English.

Thanks,

tk

Have you restarted the program after changing language?

Cheers

c;") /Rex

[tk1]

Have you restarted the program after changing language?

Cheers

c;") /Rex

 

Hi Rex,

Thanks for the reply, and yes, I've restarted the program several times (btw, the language was set during the initial setup phase of ISN AutoIt Studio) and I even tried it again just now before replying.

I did notice in the help file, it says language settings do not apply to plugins, is perchance Form Studio a plugin?  That would explain it if it is.

Thanks again,

tk

[Rex]

Hi tk1

Yes form studio is a plugin, but still an English language file exist for it, so it should change to English when set so in language.

Could it be that the language file is damaged some how?

you can find it in ...DataPluginsformstudio2language in the main folder of ISN AutoIt Studio.

for beta .95 it should be apr. 6,12 KB

Cheers

c;") /Rex

[ISI360]

@tk1:

About the language plugin:

What OS do you use and where have you installed the ISN? At Win8 there are some permission-problems when you install it under Program files.

Try to run the AutoIt_Studio.exe as Administrator. Maybe then the ISN has the rights to change the language values in the pluginsettings. (ini files)

And about the existing project:

When you create a new project you can choose an existing au3 file of your project. This project will be converter in an ISN Project.

But unfortunately not the forms. A GUI-Script to .isf (Formstudio GUIs) converter is not not aviable :(

(But its possible if someone had the time to make this tool...an isf file is just an simple .ini file ^^)

[tk1]

 

for beta .95 it should be apr. 6,12 KB

 

My english.lng is dated 11/11/2013, and as I just installed this yesterday, the install obviously did not change the date.  Corrupt?  Possibility, but don't know.

 

@tk1:

About the language plugin:

What OS do you use and where have you installed the ISN? At Win8 there are some permission-problems when you install it under Program files.

Try to run the AutoIt_Studio.exe as Administrator. Maybe then the ISN has the rights to change the language values in the pluginsettings. (ini files)

And about the existing project:

When you create a new project you can choose an existing au3 file of your project. This project will be converter in an ISN Project.

But unfortunately not the forms. A GUI-Script to .isf (Formstudio GUIs) converter is not not aviable :(

(But its possible if someone had the time to make this tool...an isf file is just an simple .ini file ^^)

 

Win 7 Ult 64bit is the OS, and I did change the install location to "c:Program Files", so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a permissions issue --thank you M$.  I'll try running it as Admin and see what happens.

A GUI-Script ==> .isf converter would be an awesome addition (plugin) for this program.  You've done an amazing job with it.

I'm still very green when it comes to AutoIt (still learning how to spell AutoIt!).

Edited December 23, 2013 by tk1

[Andreik]

Some time ago when I tried first time ISN AutoIt Studio there was an option to set break points using debugger. Isn't available anymore this feature?

[Mic]

I understand that if I add checkbox objects to a group, they will behave as radiobuttons where only one can be on at a time and checking one will uncheck the rest(?). With a gui created with ISN AutoStudio, is there a way of doing this within the ExtraCode, or will it have to be coded outside of the gui .isn file? 

 

(tried subscribing to the ISN forum but errors out on registration - apologies if wrong place to ask this specific question)

Edited January 11, 2014 by Melba23
Merged from separate thread

[ISI360]

Be sure yoiu use the "checkbox" control for your checkboxes (not a different with checkbox style). Checkboxes should not restrained like radios (auto uncheck all others).

And about the radios: Yes the must be grouped if there a many in one gui. You have 2 options to do this with the formstudio:

Sort the Order of the radios correctly so that they are seperatet from other radios (see attached isf)

You can change the order of the controls directly in the formstudio.

And the secound methode is that you group the radios with GUIStartGroup() as extracode. Insert this Extracode for every FIRST radio in a group and it should work also. (See help for more infos)

Hope it helps you

form.zip

[kinch]

Hi,

First off, I'd like to thank ISI360 for creating the amazing ISN Studio.  It's a very impressive piece of engineering, and of course to all those who wrote UDFs that it relies on.

I've been using it for a project at work, and will use it for many more.  I found a couple of issues that I'd like to report - I tried to use the Bugtracker and official forum, but those were both in German and I couldn't translate it to make it work.

String 899 in english.lng needs to be translated (it's one word, but I noticed it).

I had the entire ISN studio crash when I was using the form designer - I had opened the GUI Properties, and clicked on the "..." button for the "Parent GUI" dialog box.  The entire application flashed, then became unresponsive.  The only recourse was to kill it with task manager.  After re-loading the application, I tried again to click on that button, and it worked.  Might have been a one-off, and I haven't had time to test more thoroughly.  I know this doesn't help, but hopefully more in the future.

The crash led to an interesting discovery - the backups made are the ones that are saved to disk - I had spent 30 minutes working on a form, getting everything aligned just right... but I hadn't saved, and it hadn't auto-saved.  After the crash, the form was back to square one, and I couldn't find a copy with my changes anywhere.  I checked the project folder, the project Backups folder, and the Backups folder in the ISN Studio directory and anything else that looked relevant.  I searched the entire HDD for .isf files and the ones I found didn't have my (unsaved) changes made.  I don't know if auto-saving a "work in progress" is possible with forms, but it'd be great if it was.

Lastly... this is a weird one and I apologise in advance for the lack of detail.  When I open an ISF file with the form editor... it seems to remember code changes that I had undone outside of the application.

Let me explain:  While working on an ISF file, somehow (I genuinely don't know how) in the midst of the GUI creation code, a simple "Exit" line had been put in there.  This was causing my program to exit as soon as it loaded.  Weird.  So I opened the ISF file in notepad, removed the offending line, saved it in notepad.  All good.  However, I then opened it in the form editor, made some GUI changes, saved it - and somehow the Exit line was back.  It's almost like the form editor is working from a backup or something, but I couldn't figure out where that erroneous code was coming from.

This has happened consistently enough that I now do all my ISF code edits in Notepad, after using the form studio to design the layout.  I haven't done enough research yet to find a reproduceable bug for you, but it definitely happens to me alot.  I'm working on a project for work atm that means I have to focus on that, but once it's finished and I have some time to play, I'll try to find a way to show you what I mean.

Oh, a feature request based on the above: Is there an option for .ISF files to save the constants in the code instead of just replacing it with numbers?  ie, instead of "SetState(-1,144)" it uses "SetState(-1,$GUI_ENABLED)" or whatever.  The only reason I ask is because I don't want to open the .ISF files in the form editor after it's created, and it just makes it a little bit more awkward.

Once again, thanks for the app, and looking forward to seeing more in the future!

[ISI360]

Thanks for you feedback!

In the forum you will find an "english only" area...and when you register your user you can set english as forum language.

Oh thanks..str899 seems i forgott it to translate.

About your crashed form:
Check your data dir DataPluginsformstudio2cache. (If no cache folder is here..check the path in  your profile "My DocumentsISN AutoIt StudioData....")

There should be some .dat files (which when the formstudio crashed are not deleted correctly). Try to rename a _cache_ file (not cache2!) to .isf and try to load it. Some of these files must contain your crashed gui!

About the exit problem:
Maybe you insert the "exit" command as extracode to a control? Please send me your isf and i will check it. (And yes this is normal when you manually edit the file and reopen it with formstudio it will restore the code!)

And about the constants: Yes this is planed..,aybe in the next release!

[springfire]

How can I view full errors in debug window? Please help!

For example, in Scite:

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.exe" /ShowGui /in "C:\Users\springfirenator\Documents\AutoIt\Templates\Full Template\Full Template.au3"
+>12:35:09 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.2.1.3.0 SciTE v.3.3.6.0 ;  Keyboard:00000409  OS:WIN_8/  CPU:X64 OS:X64    Environment(Language:0409  Keyboard:00000409  OS:WIN_8/  CPU:X64 OS:X64)
- Skipping #AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_File_Add because the file is not found:image.png, rt_rcdata, IMAGE
->Icon not found:C:\Users\springfirenator\Documents\AutoIt\Templates\Full Template\icon.ico
>Exit code: 0    Time: 43.190

In ISN:

Starting file Temp.au3...


> Execution stopped!

Full Template.au3 -> Exit Code: 0   (Runtime: 5.41 sec)

Virtually no information to know where is the problem :/

[springfire]

How can I view full errors in debug window? Please help!

For example, in Scite:

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.exe" /ShowGui /in "C:\Users\springfirenator\Documents\AutoIt\Templates\Full Template\Full Template.au3"
+>12:35:09 Starting AutoIt3Wrapper v.2.1.3.0 SciTE v.3.3.6.0 ;  Keyboard:00000409  OS:WIN_8/  CPU:X64 OS:X64    Environment(Language:0409  Keyboard:00000409  OS:WIN_8/  CPU:X64 OS:X64)
- Skipping #AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_File_Add because the file is not found:image.png, rt_rcdata, IMAGE
->Icon not found:C:\Users\springfirenator\Documents\AutoIt\Templates\Full Template\icon.ico
>Exit code: 0    Time: 43.190

In ISN:

Starting file Temp.au3...


> Execution stopped!

Full Template.au3 -> Exit Code: 0   (Runtime: 5.41 sec)

Virtually no information to know where is the problem :/

 

Gone into this for a while, and the problem seems to be this:

ISN AutoIt Studio does not run Autoit3Wrapper when testing a project.

Please fix it.

 

And.. I would like to see of there is any reference for macros like %filename%, %autor%, %langstring(30)%, %studioversion%

[ISI360]

In 0.96 you can choose to start autoit files with the AutoIt3.exe (default) or with the AutoIt 3 Wrapper.

[this-is-me]

I don't want the "lower window" to be always visible or always hidden. Can you please add the F8 hotkey to show/hide the AutoIt debug pane as in SciTE?

Also, where do I download version 0.96? I only see 0.95 online at your website.

Edited January 24, 2014 by this-is-me