[CLOSED] Get the GUI size when all controls are visible

[JohnOne]

Then perhaps GUIRegisterMsg could help you, I think it registers messages for controls too.

Not 100% on that though.

[kaotkbliss]

FireFox mentioned wanting to make a UDF out of this.

It almost sounds like he wants to create a new "GuiCreate" that will automatically select the correct size of the gui based on where the controls are.

Such as if later you add new controls to the script, the gui would auto-resize to fit them all without adjusting the code.

[JohnOne]

Pretty cool idea if that's correct, and the answer would be some pretty difficult

and complicated mathematical calculations.

Still just guessing though.

[kaotkbliss]

The easiest way I could think of to accomplish this would be to create an array of all the controls, then run through the array and grab the lowest X value, lowest Y value, highest X+control width value, and highest Y+control height value. But I believe it's already been mentioned as being not fast enough.

[JohnOne]

Well I was still getting it wrong.

After your suggestion of what the OP might be trying to do, I though it was taking as parameters

"buttons|2,edit|1,input|1,label|4" or something similar, and the calculations would be to arrange 2 buttons

1 edit, 1 input and 4 labels neatly into a gui and create it.

Like when you don't really care how they are arranged so long as they're all there type of thing.

[FireFox]

@kaotkbliss

Thanks for pointing out what I said before. I'm not making an UDF for what you said, you will know when I will post it.

If it was only for my script, of course I would know the ctrl positions and this topic would not have any sense.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[UEZ]

Might be useful:

Func ControlsGetMinMaxPos($hWnd)
    Local $iPosX_Min = 0xFFFF, $iPosX_Max, $iPosY_Min = 0xFFFF, $iPosY_Max
    Local $hChild = _WinAPI_GetWindow($hWnd, $GW_CHILD)
    Do
        $aRect = ControlGetPos($hChild, "", 0)
        If $aRect[0] < $iPosX_Min Then $iPosX_Min = $aRect[0]
        If $aRect[1] < $iPosY_Min Then $iPosY_Min = $aRect[1]
        If $aRect[0] +  $aRect[2] > $iPosX_Max Then $iPosX_Max = $aRect[0] +  $aRect[2]
        If $aRect[1] +  $aRect[3] > $iPosY_Max Then $iPosY_Max = $aRect[1] +  $aRect[3]
        $hChild = _WinAPI_GetWindow($hChild, $GW_HWNDNEXT)
    Until Not $hChild
    Local $aMinMax[4] = [$iPosX_Min, $iPosY_Min, $iPosX_Max, $iPosY_Max]
    Return $aMinMax
EndFunc

Br,

UEZ

Edited November 29, 2012 by UEZ

[FireFox]

@UEZ

Thank you.

I will test the speed between the two functions given.

Br, FireFox.

[jdelaney]

nice, that's a much cleaner way to get the controls

[guinness]

Very nice UEZ.

[FireFox]

I will definitely use the function of UEZ.

Here is my version of jdelaney's function :

Func _WindowGetBoundCtrls($hWnd)
Local $aWndClassList = StringSplit(WinGetClassList($hWnd), @CRLF)
Local $sPriorClass, $iCounter = 1, $aBoundCtrls[2] = [0, 0], $aCtrlPos

If Not $aWndClassList[0] Then Return $aBoundCtrls
$sPriorClass = $aWndClassList[1]

For $iList = 1 To $aWndClassList[0] - 1
If $aWndClassList[$iList] <> $sPriorClass Then
$iCounter = 1
$sPriorClass = $aWndClassList[$iList]
EndIf

$aCtrlPos = ControlGetPos($hWnd, "", "[CLASSNN:" & $aWndClassList[$iList] & $iCounter & "]")

If $aCtrlPos[0] + $aCtrlPos[2] > $aBoundCtrls[0] Then $aBoundCtrls[0] = $aCtrlPos[0] + $aCtrlPos[2]
If $aCtrlPos[1] + $aCtrlPos[3] > $aBoundCtrls[1] Then $aBoundCtrls[1] = $aCtrlPos[1] + $aCtrlPos[3]

$iCounter += 1
Next

Return $aBoundCtrls
EndFunc   ;==>_WindowGetBoundCtrls