GOLGRILL a lot of tasty BUTTONS on a GRILL

[t0nZ]

Often I need to create a panel to monitor a lot of things (users, files, items etc) so I use this piece of code to create a dynamic grid of buttons.

The number of buttons is variable, and it's related to the size of the gui, the size of the buttons and the distance between buttons.

Every "button" is a set of three with a real button stacked on the top of two labels, imagine reading a .CSV file or an array or a database and displaying all the things using the labels (Text and COLOR too) and clickin' on the relative button you can call further info on the item or call a particular function.

So you can decide the number of the buttons, the width of the buttons, and also the distance  between buttons.

It's quick and dirty, simple  and very improvable (I know..) so fell free to play with the code.

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;TEST
;GOL-Grill
;Grill test/template
; (c) 2019 NSC
; V.0.6

#Region    ;************ Includes ************
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <ProgressConstants.au3>
#include <_GOLLOG.au3>; NSC first UDF
#EndRegion ;************ Includes ************


Dim $agButton[1]
Global $ButtonU, $rProgress, $form1, $labeltot, $ntotButtonS
; the number of buttons is variable based on the guisize, the button size and button distance, three examples....
;Global $guiwidth = 850, $guiheight = 500, $buttonW = 150, $buttonHDistance = 10, $buttonVDistance = 20 ; SMALL GUI / BIG BUTTONS <- try it !
Global $guiwidth = 1500, $guiheight = 700, $buttonW = 90 , $buttonHDistance = 29, $buttonVDistance = 3; BIG GUI / SMALL BUTTONS 
;Global $guiwidth = 1200, $guiheight = 800, $buttonW = 300, $buttonHDistance = 30, $buttonVDistance = 7; last two variables are horizontal and vertical distance between buttons
Global $ver = "V.0.6"


Gollog(">>>>> START")

Dim $aResult[11] = [10, "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j"]
; this is an example, it can be an array, a DB, a .text file read in real time.

Gui()

Gollog("start analyzing...")
Monitor()

While 1

    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            CLOSEClicked()
            Exit
        Case $ButtonU
            Monitor()
        Case Else
            For $i = 1 To $ntotButtonS
                If $nMsg = $agButton[$i] Then
                    $Bhit = GUICtrlRead($agButton[$i])
                    infoB($Bhit)
                EndIf
            Next
    EndSwitch

WEnd

Func Gui()

    $form1 = GUICreate("Buttons on a grill   " & $ver & "      (c) NSC 2019", $guiwidth, $guiheight, 90, 10)

    $ButtonU = GUICtrlCreateButton("Update", 2, 2, 170, 50)

    $labeltot = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Total found", 5, 55)

    $Gollogedit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 2, $guiheight - 255, 180, 250, BitOR($ES_AUTOVSCROLL, $ES_AUTOHSCROLL, $ES_WANTRETURN, $WS_BORDER))
    $rProgress = GUICtrlCreateProgress($guiwidth - 18, 5, 16, $guiheight - 7, BitOR($PBS_SMOOTH, $PBS_VERTICAL, $WS_BORDER))
    GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x00FF00)
    GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0x000000)

    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

EndFunc   ;==>Gui

Func Monitor()

    GUIDelete($form1)

    Gui()

    $leftSTART = 186 ;left align
    $topSTART = 5 ;start from top
    $lineDOWN = 45 + $buttonVDistance ; vertical line distance 45 is buttons very near
    $extraHSTEP = 3 ; extra line distance
    $buttonSEMIH = 15 ; height of one of the 3 vertical impiled semibuttons
    $separatorSEMIH = 2 ;vertical distance between 3 semibuttons
    $separatorW = 2 ;aux horizontal distance
    ;---------- derived measures
    $rightLIMIT = $guiwidth - 123     ; right limit befor Carriage Return
    $leftINCREMENT = $buttonHDistance + $buttonW ; horizontal increment button after button
    $leftSTEP = $leftSTART ;incremental horizontal
    $topSTEP = $topSTART ;incremental vertical

    $foundB = $aResult[0]
    GUICtrlSetData($labeltot, "Found n°" & $foundB)

    $ntotButtonS = 0
    $nomorebuttons = 0

    For $i = 1 To $foundB

        Local $itemFound = $aResult[$i] ;\TA1000

        Gollog($itemFound)

        GUICtrlCreateGroup('', $leftSTEP, $topSTEP - 3, $buttonW + 3, 50)

        ;______first-----------------------------_______line___________________UNO________11111_____\\\\\\\\\\------------
        Local $textbutton = "button n°" & $i
        _ArrayAdd($agButton, GUICtrlCreateButton($textbutton, $leftSTEP + $separatorSEMIH, $topSTEP + $extraHSTEP, $buttonW, $buttonSEMIH, $BS_flat))
        GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0xccffcc)         ;green, sort of
        GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 7, -1, -1, 'verdana')
        GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000000)

        ;___second__________line___________________DUE ________222222--------------------------------------------------------------------

        Local $textLINE2 = $itemFound
        GUICtrlCreateLabel($textLINE2, $leftSTEP + $separatorW, $topSTEP + $buttonSEMIH + $separatorSEMIH, $buttonW, $buttonSEMIH, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))
        GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, 0xD2D7A8)
        GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 7, -1, -1, 'verdana')
        GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000000)

        ; __third______line________tre___________________________________________________________333333-3333333-333333333-333333-33333-33333-3333--------------------------------

        Local $textLINE3 = "line3"
        GUICtrlCreateLabel($textLINE3, $leftSTEP + $separatorW, $topSTEP + $buttonSEMIH + $buttonSEMIH + $separatorSEMIH, $buttonW, $buttonSEMIH, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_CENTERIMAGE))          ; NSC modify
        GUICtrlSetBkColor(-1, $GUI_BKCOLOR_TRANSPARENT)
        GUICtrlSetFont(-1, 7, -1, -1, 'verdana')
        GUICtrlSetColor(-1, 0x000000)

        $ntotButtonS += 1
        GUICtrlSetData($rProgress, (100 * $ntotButtonS / $foundB))

        If $leftSTEP + $buttonW < $rightLIMIT Then ;
            $leftSTEP += $leftINCREMENT ;53
        Else
            $leftSTEP = $leftSTART
            $topSTEP += $lineDOWN
            If $topSTEP >= $guiheight - 50 Then
                $nomorebuttons = 1
                Gollog("displayed " & $ntotButtonS & " buttons")
                Gollog("NO more buttons !")
            EndIf
        EndIf
        Sleep(100) ; REMOVE is only for demo
    Next


    While $nomorebuttons = 0 ; draw empty buttons (nice to do)
        $ntotButtonS += 1
        _ArrayAdd($agButton, GUICtrlCreateButton("B-" & $ntotButtonS, $leftSTEP + $separatorSEMIH, $topSTEP + $extraHSTEP, $buttonW, $buttonSEMIH, $BS_flat))
        If $leftSTEP + $buttonW < $rightLIMIT Then ;
            $leftSTEP += $leftINCREMENT
        Else
            $leftSTEP = $leftSTART
            $topSTEP += $lineDOWN
            If $topSTEP >= $guiheight - 50 Then
                $nomorebuttons = 1
                Gollog("displayed " & $ntotButtonS & " buttons")
                Gollog("NO more buttons !")
            EndIf
        EndIf
    WEnd

    GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)

EndFunc   ;==>Monitor

Func infoB($Bhit) ; this function act on the pressed button, it's an example so assign the task you need.
    gollog("infoB -> " & $Bhit)
EndFunc   ;==>infoB

Func CLOSEClicked()
    MsgBox(64, "exit", "program exiting", 1)
    Gollog("<---STOP")
    Exit
EndFunc   ;==>CLOSEClicked

You will need also the Include from this post for the LOG (Gollog) instructions, but you can also just remove the gollog and the EDIT box.

Look at the screenshot, It's from an APP made using this code.

21/11/2019 V.0.6

Script lightly updated with better management of buttons size and distance.

 

Edited November 21, 2019 by t0nZ
Script updated with better management of buttons