Form Builder beta

[BuckMaster]

Update v1.0.6

Major script overhaul, I literally started over from scratch only adding parts of code from the old script that were solid.
I don’t have a help file made as of now so I am going to explain all of the functionality in this post
- Form Builder is no longer bi-directional, you now toggle between script mode and GUI mode using a button in the top right or F4
- The script no longer recompiles on every change but instead inserts changes into the script
- Form Builder no longer cares about Event mode or GuiGetMsg mode
- No more .gui files, you now edit .au3 scripts directly
- Script edit is now a SciLexer control, includes syntax highlighting, folding, call tips, keywords, and inline error annotations.
- Script output console is now at the bottom in script mode
- Main GUI menu redone, most functions from SciTe have been added along with their hotkeys
- All restrictions to editing the script have been removed
- GDI+ and Graphic editors removed
- Cleanup of script, stability greatly increased
- Hotkeys no longer use _IsPressed they now use GUIAccelerator keys (with exception to a few)
- Multiple scripts can be open
- Form Builder buffers the open scripts and adds an asterisk * to scripts that have been modified
- Rich Edit, GUIScrollbars, Dummy, and Updown are disabled for now until I can add them
- GUI Menu controls cannot be created as of now but will be rendered in the editor
- Undo and Redo actions in script mode and GUI mode added, the GUI undo and redo buffer is cleared switching between modes
- The Undo and Redo buffers do not have a limit but are cleared when switching between modes or scripts
- Undo and Redo actions do not work for controls that have no control handle
- The Treeview now works as a Go to function for controls and functions in script mode
- Form Builder now tries to preserve as much of the original content as possible, it will save whitespace in-between parameters and comments on controls
- Treeview context menu reworked, much more responsive
- Unicode support added File -> Encoding -> UTF-8
- Language support added, I added a couple of language files and used Google translate just so I could size my GUI's for different languages, I do not support what those language files say
- Selecting a GUI in the Treeview in GUI mode will allow you to change the GUI's Handle, Position, Background Color, State, Cursor, Font, Font Size and Font Attributes
- Auto Declare is no longer hiding in the settings, it is now on the top right and is a toggle between Off, Global and Local
- Help File Lookup added (Ctrl + H), allows you to search selected text in the help file,
  Any variable will be searched and the first result will be displayed, any string will be searched as a keyword in the index
- Added current script line, column, and selection length in the bottom left
- Standard undeclared style constants are checked before script execution and the script will prompt if an undefined style constant is found
- You can now toggle script whitespace, EOL characters, line numbers, margins and output in the View menu
- View -> Toggle All Folds works as it does in SciTe, only base level folds are changed and the first fold found determines whether to expand or contract
- Form Builder Settings redone
- Bugs with submitting data and control selection have been fixed
- Fixed problems with frequently called repetitive functions causing issues with large scripts
- Fixed bugs with B, I, U and S font attribute buttons getting stuck and called when enter was pressed

Update v1.0.7
- Help File Look-up hotkey changed to Ctrl+B
- Replace hotkey changed to Ctrl+H
- Changes to $SCN_MODIFIED so only text events are notified
- Bookmarks added, Ctrl+M to add or delete a Bookmark from the current line
- Edit -> Bookmarks -> Set Bookmark changes the currently selected Bookmark
- Edit -> Clear Current Bookmarks deletes only the currently selected Bookmark
- Allows you to change foreground and background colors of Bookmarks
- Added F2 hotkey for Next Bookmark
- Added Shift+F2 hotkey for Previous Bookmark
- Fixed a bug that made it so script annotation did not show up for some people
- Script errors and warnings now add a Bookmark on each line
- Ctrl+E hotkey added to clear all Bookmarks and Annotations
- Minor GUI tweaks
- Fixed a bug with the GUI Style undo action
- Undo and Redo actions for GUI windows will now update the window properties if the GUI is selected
- F4 Hotkey no longer switches modes, switching modes is now F10
- F4 is to toggle next error or warning message, works like it does in SciTe, bookmarks the line and highlights the error in the console
- Shift+F4 Hotkey added to toggle previous error or warning message
- Shift+F5 Hotkey added to clear script output
- Ctrl+F5 Hotkey added as SyntaxCheck Prod
- Form Builder now performs a SyntaxCheck before entering GUI Mode and prompts on Error or Warning
- Language Select Menu Added Settings -> Lanugage
- Icons added to main menu
- Languages added to all new menu items and msgbox's
- Language Files updated for new data
- Language Support added for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Swedish, Thai, and Vietnamese [ Google Translate ]
- Fixed bug with updating a language that made it look like ANSI and UTF-8 were both selected
- Added redo button next to undo button
- Font attribute buttons Bold, Italic, Underline and Strike-Out changed to labels

Update v1.0.8

- Somehow a main function got deleted causing the script to crash on some changes

- Fixed some issues with updating Languages

 

Hotkeys
Ctrl + N              - New Blank Script
Ctrl + G              - New GUI Script
Ctrl + O              - Open Script
Ctrl + Shift + S   - Save As
Ctrl + S              - Save
Esc                    - Close Open Script
Alt + F4              - Exit
Ctrl + Z              - Undo
Ctrl + Y              - Redo
Ctrl + X              - Cut
Ctrl + C              - Copy
Ctrl + V              - Paste
Ctrl + A              - Select All
Ctrl + W             - Clear inline script annotation

Ctrl + E              - Clear inline script annotation and bookmarks
Ctrl + F              - Find
Ctrl + F3            - Find Next
Shift + F3           - Find Previous (doesn’t work yet)
Ctrl + B              - Help File Lookup
F5                      - Go
Alt + F5             - Beta Run
F7                     - Build
Ctrl + F7            - Compile
F11                    - Full screen
F8                     - Toggle Show/Hide Script Output
Ctrl + I               - Open Include
Ctrl + H             - Replace
F1                     - AutoIt Help File
Ctrl + D             - Duplicate Control
Delete               - Delete Control
Ctrl + Shift + 8   - Toggle Show/Hide Script Whitespace
Ctrl + Shift + 9   - Toggle Show/Hide Script EOL characters
Ctrl                    - GUI Mode multicontrol selection
F10                     - Switch Modes

F4                     - Next Message

Shift+F4            - Previous Message

Shift+F5            - Clear Output

Ctrl+M               - Add Bookmark

F2                     - Next Bookmark

Shift+F2            - Previous Bookmark

Basic GUI Mode How To

Create a Control
    - click a control on the left
    - click in the GUI you wish to add the control
      Left Click: Click and drag to auto resize the control
      Right Click: Creates the control at a standard size
Select a Control
    - click inside the control or select it in the treeview
Change a controls Data
    - First select the control
    - modify the controls data on the right, press enter to submit changes
      state, cursor, font and resizing update when you change the data
    - when modifying the data parameter the script recognizes if there is a variable in the data and will add quotes accordingly
      ex. data parameter = $data, End result in script: GUICtrlCreateButton($data, 50, 50, 100, 20)
      ex. data parameter = data, End result in script: GUICtrlCreateButton("data", 50, 50, 100, 20)
      ex. data parameter = "data"&$data, End result in script: GUICtrlCreateButton("data"&$data, 50, 50, 100, 20)
Applying an Image to a control
    - select a control
    - control styles must be applied to some controls before adding an image
    - click the ... button next to the Image input in the Control Properties area in the bottom right
    - select the image you want to display, allows jpg, bmp, gif, ico and dll files
    - selecting a dll will open another prompt to choose which resource to display
Control Grouping
    - multiple controls must be selected
    - press the group controls button
    - control grouping allows you to resize and move multiple controls at the same time, as of now groups are deleted when leaving GUI mode

I only have a couple odds and ends to finish up before everything should be complete,
I need to add Undo and Redo actions for copying and duplicating controls and a couple other minor things,
eventually I want to try to add all of the UDF controls as well.
If people are willing to translate the language file I would be very grateful, the ones I have right now are from Google translate, I only used them for testing and have no idea what they say.
I want to thank Kip, Prog@ndy, Isi360 and all of the other contributors on this forum, without you guys i don't think i could have written this script.

Please post any comments, problems or suggestions,
    BuckMaster


* I only used one "magic number" on my main close case statement, only for faster locating, and i don't care.

Form Builder Source.zip

Form Builder.zip

Edited March 19, 2014 by BuckMaster

[JScript]

Very nice, thank you for sharing with us!

JS

[Morthawt]

VERY impressive indeed. Something like this should replace Koda... Koda has such a windows 98 basic feel to it. This one you have made has a much richer modern look and functionality. Bloody good job indeed!

[Morthawt]

I found an array overrun bug. Start a new file. Add a child window via the button on the top toolbar. Then hit the X on the child window that appears in the design area and choose "No" you don't want to save it. Boom repeatable array based error.

Hope it helps.

[BuckMaster]

@Morthawt - Fixed it! New download link is on first post

[UEZ]

Looks very promising - has the potential for the successor of Koda.

I will test it more deeply later and tell you some issues I got with it...

Br,

UEZ

Edited December 1, 2012 by UEZ

[Morthawt]

Ok, this time when I hit X on the child window and press no, both the original window and the child vanish. Then if you click the tab at the top that says "untitled.gui" it Array crashes again.

[BuckMaster]

@Morthawt - Rewrote the close function for windows, new download again

[guinness]

An impressive project. I just quickly browsed the source code and my only suggestion(s) would be...

1. Replace Case -3 with Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

2. Use new AutoIt color scheme that is present in SciTE.

Func _SetRESHAutoItColors()
    ; These are not required but it's easier to use enum when associating the array element numbers to the color meanings.
    Local Enum $iMacros, $iStrings, $iSpecial, $iComments, $iVariables, $iOperators, $iNumbers, $iKeywords, _
            $iUDFs, $iSendKeys, $iFunctions, $iPreProc, $iComObjects

    ; Declare 13 element array.
    Local $aColorTable[13]

    ; Values can use # or 0x.
    $aColorTable[$iMacros] = '#808000'
    $aColorTable[$iStrings] = 0xFF0000
    $aColorTable[$iSpecial] = '#DC143C'
    $aColorTable[$iComments] = '#008000'
    $aColorTable[$iVariables] = '#5A5A5A'
    $aColorTable[$iOperators] = '#FF8000'
    $aColorTable[$iNumbers] = 0x0000FF
    $aColorTable[$iKeywords] = '#0000FF'
    $aColorTable[$iUDFs] = '#0080FF'
    $aColorTable[$iSendKeys] = '#808080'
    $aColorTable[$iFunctions] = '#000090'
    $aColorTable[$iPreProc] = '#808000'
    $aColorTable[$iComObjects] = 0x993399

    _RESH_SetColorTable($aColorTable)
EndFunc   ;==>_SetRESHAutoItColors

[Morthawt]

Very nice!

Ok thats working. I cannot click on layers I add on that left toolbar area. Also if I try and use a "UpDown" control from the left toolbar it does not seem to add anything anywhere. So far thats all I have found.

Edit:

You may want to check into your tree area on the right that shows currently used controls/gui. I have not been able to replicate the issue but I did have a child window showing up there yet it was missing in the code area at the bottom and there was no visual of it on the design area yet it was showing there in that tree. So watch out for that one if you happen to catch it.

Edited December 1, 2012 by Morthawt

[Morthawt]

If I try and highlight an area of script at the bottom and try and backspace it, it does nothing. Same with holding backspace to try and delete chunks of characters. I had to be very slow and deliberate one backspace at a time to edit the code.

EDIT:

Editing the grid size does not alter the visual representation of the grid in the form being worked upon.

Edited December 1, 2012 by Morthawt

[AlmarM]

I cannot say more: nice!

5/5

[mesale0077]

very nice

do you think flash object , wmplayer object ,adobe object ,ie object ,excel tab,doc ,add buttons

Edited December 1, 2012 by mesale0077

[engjcowi]

Very nice indeed.

[Morthawt]

Very nice indeed.

Agreed! This code is way above me for sure. I have no idea how he made something so nice looking and dynamic. I am totally speechless.. This is the most impressive thing I think I have seen yet.

[Danp2]

When importing an existing script:

$cboStatusDisplay = GUICtrlCreateCombo ("", 126, 368, 97, 17, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "None|Balloon|Window")

imports as:

$Label11 = GUICtrlCreateLabel( "None|Balloon|Window", 37, 370, 80, 17)

Also, this:

$frmOptions = GUICreate("Options", 314, 480, -1, -1)

gets imported as:

$frmOptions = GUICreate( "Options", 306, 446, -1, -1)

which results in some buttons being hidden at the bottom of the window.

[Danp2]

A few more bugs:

Launch the app and then press the Close Current Window toolbar button. Answer "Yes". Repeat close window process again. Boom.

Also, similar thing happens if you close the current window and then choose New GUI from the File menu. Answer "Yes" to close current project. You will end up with two tabs titled "Untitled gui". When you switch back and forth between them, you get an array subscript error.

Also get a subscript error upon duplicating some elements.

Edited December 1, 2012 by DanP2

[Chance]

WOW

And it's all written in AutoIt script too!

This is impressive, I agree with UEZ, this has the capacity to be a successor to koda if you ask me, especially since it's in the language we all love.

An impressive project. I just quickly browsed the source code and my only suggestion(s) would be...

1. Replace Case -3 with Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

2. Use new AutoIt color scheme that is present in SciTE.

1. why? Isn't GUI_EVENT_CLOSE just a variable with -3 assigned to it? I don't see that message code ever changing anytime soon or ever.

2. I personally don't like that new scheme, I counter suggest a "no" and "don't do it"

[BrewManNH]

1. why? Isn't GUI_EVENT_CLOSE just a variable with -3 assigned to it? I don't see that message code ever changing anytime soon or ever.

2. I personally don't like that new scheme, I counter suggest a "no" and "don't do it"

You should avoid using "magic numbers" whenever possible, if you don't know what -3 means it can confuse anyone looking at your script. If you see GUI_EVENT_CLOSE you at least have an idea of what it's looking for.

I also would veto setting it to an arbitrary color scheme, not everyone leaves it at the default, so having it the same as SciTE's doesn't make a lot of sense. Choose the color scheme you like and let it be changeable by the user would be the way I'd go about it.

[Beege]

Wow! very nice looking project! Looking forward to playing around with it.