kurtykurtyboy Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 @jaberwacky Thanks, that means a lot coming from you! Of course, I owe a lot to you for converting to OnEvent mode and using Maps and other improvements I'm sure which made this very much more approachable. Hopefully I can continue improving the code for others to contribute to or learn from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Hey everyone! Check the first post for the latest update with a whole slew of improvements and new features! Much time and care was put into improving the functionality and stability of selecting and manipulating controls (selection rectangle, copy, paste, drag, resize, etc...) Everything seems to be working pretty well, but slows down considerably when selecting massive groups. I've done what I could for now, but will need to think about how to improve this. Particularly neat is the new feature for aligning the selected controls. Select several controls, then right click on a control or use the edit menu to arrange and align the selected controls. Everything will be aligned to the FIRST selected control. Also cool is that groups of controls can be selected and resized together proportionally. Also, when copying and pasting multiple controls at once, they maintain their relative positions instead of stacking on top of each other. Unfortunately, the rich edit control for syntax highlighting was removed. It was causing so many issues and was not worth it to me to fight it. Standard edit works fine for now. I still need to add control style properties, but I am running out of ideas. Needing some suggestions! But keep it simple. 😏 What's Changed? FIXED: Lots of handling of copy+paste scenarios FIXED: Tooltip when resizing multiple controls FIXED: Changed the selection rectangle so controls don't bounce around during right-to-left selection anymore FIXED: Right-click when multiple controls are selected FIXED: Lagging when dragging many controls at once FIXED: Improved a lot of flickering when dragging things FIXED: Select a control after drawing (instead of drawing on top of it) ADDED: New menu item, shortcut key Ctrl+X, and context menu item to 'Cut' selected controls ADDED: Cut/Copy/Paste will now maintain relative positions and spacing ADDED: Improved paste functionality When pasting with Ctrl+V, control will follow mouse waiting to be placed by single click When pasting with menu or right-click, control will be placed at mouse position ADDED: Resizing multiple-selected controls will resize proportionally as a group ADDED: Resize using any of the selected grippies, not just the last selected ADDED: Status messages for changing some settings (F3, F7) ADDED: Tool button icons now built into the exe, so resources folder is not necessary to run ADDED: Improved selection detection Left-to-right selection requires entire control to be in the rectangle Right-to-left selection selects anything that crosses the rectangle ADDED: Right-click menu items: Arrange-> Align left/center/right, top/middle/bottom, space vertical/horizontal ADDED: Ask to save (definition) dialog when closing, only when a change was detected since the last save MAINT: Added logging function and debug flag for testing/development MAINT: Downgraded to AutoIT v3.3.14.5 for personal reasons (removed maps) UPDATED: Better startup loading, so windows open at the same time UPDATED: Better redrawing with working with multiple controls UPDATED: Reverted back to standard edit box for code preview due to more issues with rich edit than it was worth REMOVED: DPI scaling - not reliable enough to keep for now mLipok and TheSaint 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlanderSword Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Hello, Do you have any plans to provide an option to import an uu3 file that already contains code for the Form ? This would making switching over to this GUI builder a quick and easy process Can you share your plans for new features you are planning on ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 @HighlanderSword I have definitely thought about that, but creating an au3 parser from scratch seems like a daunting task. The roadmap is in the first post. One major thing missing is control style properties, which will probably be next on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 27, 2022 Author Share Posted June 27, 2022 First post updated to v0.28. I haven't had much time lately for new features, but there are a number of bug fixes and enhancements, such as reduced flickering and speed improvements throughout. What's changed? Spoiler FIXED: UpDown control shrinks when dragging FIXED: Missing ListView icon in compiled app FIXED: Fixed clicking away from certain controls FIXED: Clicking a blank area should end the drawing, but did not work for some controls (combo, updown) FIXED: Multiple tab controls should not be allowed FIXED: Flickering when selecting and moving controls FIXED: Selection rectangle should not snap to grid FIXED: Grid disappears in some situations when clicking with no controls on the form ADDED: Hide tooltip when selecting more than 4 items ADDED: Allow a select number of keyboard shortcuts from tool window (ex: Press F5 to test the GUI after adjusting properties) ADDED: Better handling of IP control MAINT; Improved selection rectangle (again) MAINT: Improved some of the behind-the-scenes object handling MAINT: Significant speed improvements with object explorer MAINT: Other general speed improvements TheSaint 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 6:21 AM, kurtykurtyboy said: creating an au3 parser from scratch seems like a daunting task. My good buddy @TheDcoder has been doing something like that. TheDcoder 1 Make sure brain is in gear before opening mouth! Remember, what is not said, can be just as important as what is said. Spoiler What is the Secret Key? Life is like a Donut If I put effort into communication, I expect you to read properly & fully, or just not comment. Ignoring those who try to divert conversation with irrelevancies. If I'm intent on insulting you or being rude, I will be obvious, not ambiguous about it. I'm only big and bad, to those who have an over-active imagination. I may have the Artistic Liesense to disagree with you. TheSaint's Toolbox (be advised many downloads are not working due to ISP screwup with my storage) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunblood Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 I'm not able to add any controls in a Tab - when I click to create the control in the Tab I end up just selecting the whole Tab control and moving it around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r2du-soft Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 hi and thanks for creating this functional tool is possible add one option on right click menu for Lock the movement and Lock the resize a control? (for example lock layer in photoshop) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 @Sunblood, adding controls to tabs is on the project roadmap, but I need to lay some behind the scenes groundwork first in order to make that happen. The foundation of the code currently is not at all friendly for this kind of functionality, so I plan to redo a few things first instead of applying band-aids over and over to force it to work For now, the best we can do is add the blank tab sheets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 @r2du-soft, that's a good idea and shouldn't be too hard to implement. I'll add locking controls to the roadmap. r2du-soft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekker Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Thanks for this awesome project. But i can't save any project? If i save the "start window" all goes well If i just add 1 GUI element and try to save it get this error: --------------------------- AutoIt Error --------------------------- Line 32354 (File "U:\Development\AutoIT\GuiBuilderPlus v0.28 - 2022-06-26\GUIBuilderPlus v0.28.exe"): Error: Variable must be of type "Object". --------------------------- OK --------------------------- For now, i maybe have enough for the live code.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 @trekker, yes I found that too and fixed it so you should see it in the next version. Or you can just get the latest files from GitHub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trekker Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Just a small update due to the issue reported by @trekker here. The latest updates can be found in the first post. FIXED: Color and Background values of 0x000000 were saved as -1 FIXED: Setting "Paste at mouse position" incorrect behavior when turned off FIXED: Error when saving GUI to file FIXED: Crash when loading GUI file and resizing control FIXED: Improved GUI file load times ADDED: "Save As..." menu item (File menu) ADDED: Change background color of checkbox and radio controls CHANGED: You can now draw "on top of" other controls (instead of switching to selection) CHANGED: GUI definition files now use json formatting to prepare for future features Are people actually interested in seeing these small updates or should I just wait until we are finally at version 1.0? argumentum, Dan_555 and mLipok 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighlanderSword Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Yes, please continue to post the small release builds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 (edited) Feel free to check the first post for the latest update, v1.0.0-beta, which is kind of a big deal. 😏 This is probably the most significant update to date as far as new features. Several major features have been added which you can see below. This release has caused me so many headaches, but I think it was worth it and is working pretty well. If you take a peak at a new agd file with tabs containing controls, you'll understand why I switched it to a json file! Also, the program is very much usable now so I think it is past time to call this v1.0.0-beta and start using a coherent versioning system. As always, please report any bugs you find. I'm sure there will be a lot with these new features, which is why we'll call this a pre-release for now. Changes: FIXED: Crash when using Ctrl+O shortcut key FIXED: GUI should not close when cancelling the save dialog ADDED: Ability to add child controls to Tabs ADDED: Ability to add child controls to Groups ADDED: Ability to lock controls to prevent from moving, resizing, deleting ADDED: New Styles tab to set GUI and control styles ADDED: Font size property ADDED: Shortcut key Ctrl+A to select all in code preview CHANGED: Properties list is now in alphabetical order Edit: I thought maybe I should explain how to add to tab or group controls. There are 2 ways to do it. The first way is to draw a new control on top of a tab or group parent. The 2nd way is to copy a control then select the tab or group control before pasting. Also, you can use the move up/down buttons to move child controls up or down the tree within its parent. Or you can move the parent along with all of its children. Edited July 13, 2022 by kurtykurtyboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 Found a bug. When copying multiple controls at the same time, only the 1st control is pasted into the tab or group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 Check the first post for a miniature update: FIXED: Paste multiple controls into group or tab controls FIXED: "Select all" is more responsive for larger quantities of controls mLipok 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtykurtyboy Posted September 18, 2022 Author Share Posted September 18, 2022 Big update: FIXED: #include's are now more dynamic (don't include constants unless they are needed) FIXED: Removed extra GuiCreateTabItem("") for each tab FIXED: Extra GuiCreateTabItem("") for each tab FIXED: Radio and Checkbox control size when drawing ADDED: Button styles BS_LEFT, BS_RIGHT ADDED: Import/parse an existing AU3 file as GUI CHANGED: Cleaner generated code by spacing Tabs and Groups Musashi and argumentum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argumentum Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 (edited) for non-standard / portable use: Global $au3InstallPath = IniRead($sIniPath, "Settings", "AutoIt3FullPath", @ProgramFilesDir & "\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe") If StringInStr(@AutoItExe, "\AutoIt3.exe") Or StringInStr(@AutoItExe, "\AutoIt3_x64.exe") Then $au3InstallPath = @AutoItExe .... .... ;run the temporary file If Not FileExists($au3InstallPath) Then Local $sFileOpenDialog = FileOpenDialog("Select AutoIt3.exe", @ProgramFilesDir, "(*.exe)", $FD_FILEMUSTEXIST, "AutoIt3.exe") If @error Then MsgBox(1, "Error", "Could not find AutoIt3.exe") Return Else $au3InstallPath = $sFileOpenDialog IniWrite($sIniPath, "Settings", "AutoIt3FullPath", $au3InstallPath) EndIf EndIf Edited September 18, 2022 by argumentum kurtykurtyboy 1 Follow the link to my code contribution ( and other things too ). FAQ - Please Read Before Posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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