How to get value from control Topic is solved

[Coderooney]

The docs say the syntax is:

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RetrievedValue := GuiCtrl.Value

but that just gives "No object to invoke" which doesn't tell you much. What's the right way to do it? Here's essentially what I have:

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Gui := GuiCreate(, "Test")
Gui.Add("DropDownList", "vNato", "Alpha|Bravo|Charlie")
Gui.Add("Button", "Default", "Submit").OnEvent("Click", "onSubmit")
Gui.Show()

onSubmit() {
    letter := Nato.Value
}

[swagfag]

You haven't saved the drop down list guictrl reference in a variable, look at what you did for guicreate and do the same. Furthermore, you'll have to make this saved reference accessible to your function.

[Helgef]

Another way,

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onSubmit(btn) {
	ddl := btn.gui.control['Nato']
	msgbox ddl.Value
	msgbox ddl.Text
}

or

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Gui := GuiCreate(, "Test")
ddl := Gui.Add("DropDownList",, ["Alpha","Bravo","Charlie"])
Gui.Add("Button", "Default", "Submit").OnEvent("Click", func("onSubmit").bind(ddl))
Gui.Show()

onSubmit(ddl, btn) {
	msgbox ddl.Value
	msgbox ddl.Text
}

Cheers.

[swagfag]

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btn.gui.control["Nato"]

this get parent gui, get child control method is really nice

[Coderooney]

How obvious now— I was still used to vNames from V1. Thanks for pointing that out.

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ddl := btn.gui.control['Nato']

I tried this without "btn" earlier so thank you to for showing these options and the right way to use them!

[kczx3]

The first way that Helgef showed is why I personally think v2 GUIs are awesome. At least one reason that is.

[Helgef]

The first example is good to show how things are connected, but note, in the second example, the callback doesn't need to depend on the name of the control, so it is more general. You can ofc bind the name instead of the control object. Guis are often very specific, so having the ability to name controls is probably a good idea, however, I think keeping the vName notation makes no sense.

Cheers.