Modify the GUI created by an other script?

[ppat]

Is there a way to access a GUI created by a different script? For example, script C:\A.au3 creates a GUI

GuiCreate("Countdown", 400, 89)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW) 
RunWait("""" & "C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe" & """  """& "C:\B.au3" & """ ")
MsgBox(0,"The end", "The end")

which I want to modify in Script B.au3:

$result = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Dynamically added label", 5, 10)

What I want is that Script B.au3 dynamically adds a label to the GUI created in script a.au3. Obviously, this fails and $result is 0. How can I specify in Script B.au3 that the GUI to add the label to is the one created in A.au3?

Is the GUI concept linked to a single script?

[unixu]

for that you have to include B.au3 in to a.au3 and call it after a specific functio or variable is set or called.

you cant modify already launched guis from outside.

[ppat]

B.au3 is a totally independent script. It is on a separate encrypted drive with a different letter. I should have put that in the 1st post, the path is G:\B.au3 (instead of C:\B.au3). B.au3and contains passwords, so I cannot put it inside C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Include. That is why I use the RunWait line.

Is there a way to include B.au3 without putting it in C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Include ?

[ReaImDown]

  ppat said:

B.au3 is a totally independent script. It is on a separate encrypted drive with a different letter. I should have put that in the 1st post, the path is G:\B.au3 (instead of C:\B.au3). B.au3and contains passwords, so I cannot put it inside C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Include. That is why I use the RunWait line.

Is there a way to include B.au3 without putting it in C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\Include ?

well, you can use registry...text files...or hotkeys (but keep in mind, you would need a) to constantly check for a change in the text file or registry.

[ppat]

  ReaImDown said:

well, you can use registry...text files...or hotkeys (but keep in mind, you would need a) to constantly check for a change in the text file or registry.

I am not sure to understand how your answer is relevant to my question?

[EndFunc]

  ppat said:

I am not sure to understand how your answer is relevant to my question?

What I would do if I need something like that, is I would have Script B, output to an Ini file and then have Script A read from it and dynamically create the label. I do something like that now, but instead of having a script populate the inifile for the entries. I update it manually. It wouldn't be hard to have one script write to it and the other one read from it.

Edited February 26, 2009 by EndFunc

[Melba23]

ppat,

You might like to look at this thread. It features a UDF (MessageHandler.au3 from ChrisL) which allows 2 compiled or interpreted scripts to communicate. You need to play with it a bit before you get to understand it fully - but it works really well and is well worth the effort to master it. I was absolutely astonished that AutoIt could do something like this.

Given your reservations over WinAPI calls in another thread, I must warn you that it is a pretty complex beast internally - but give it a try, you might get to love it!

M23

[ppat]

Thanks M23, this looks promissing. it is good to know that it can be done, but my time is limited so I will not investigate the code for now. Eventually, I settled for an easier solution:

- in module A.au3, close the GUI before calling B.au3

- in module B.au3, create a new GUI and proceed with all operations within this same module

- at the end of B.au3, close the GUI.

So in effect, I cannot display the text in one single GUI, but in the end this is acceptable.

Thank you everyone for your other interesting suggestions.