Is it possible to fill a map from outside AutoIt ?

[kcvinu]

Hi all,

Is it possible to fill some data inside an autoit map outside the context of an autoit app ? I mean, I am working with a dll file. It is easy if I can fill the autoit map from this dll. Can I get the map's pointer from this dll ? 

@TheDcoder I hope you wrote the map library, right ?

[TheDcoder]

19 minutes ago, kcvinu said:

Is it possible to fill some data inside an autoit map outside the context of an autoit app ?

Technically yes but it would be highly dependent on AutoIt's internal representation of maps and other internal state which you may not even know about. So in short, it's not worth it and it is a bad idea.

21 minutes ago, kcvinu said:

It is easy if I can fill the autoit map from this dll.

I suggest that you just write some bridge code which serializes the "map" data in your DLL and then parse that serialized map in AutoIt to create a proper map.

22 minutes ago, kcvinu said:

@TheDcoder I hope you wrote the map library, right ?

Yes, but it's not official, it's just something I did for fun a long time ago, it's still on my GitHub and maybe even here. It doesn't have anything special inside it... except maybe you can pass a Scripting.Dictionary object from your DLL? My UDF has a _Map_DictToMap function which will create a map from that.

[kcvinu]

@TheDcoder,

Thanks for the reply. Well, I am cooking something interesting for AutoIt. A gui library fpr AutoIt. All heavy works  are happening inside the dll. So after creating a window class, I need to transfer the necessary properties from the dll function to autoit. Currently map is in my radar. I am planning to use Scripting.Dictionary also. There are more than 20-25 properties and event name indexes to transfer. Anyhow, I am searching for new ways to do it.