MUI Plug-in

WinEdt is a great editor, add-ons and components make it even better. But WinEdt does not (Yet!) provide a full access to elemental GUI components from its macro language. So I wrote a little program that shows a dialog according to object definitions.

After installation, macro writers will be able to make GUI dialogs. This file:

MUITitle(" MUI Example ");
MUIWidth(300);
MUITab("First");
    MUILink("WinEdt.org", "http://www.winedt.org/", "Visit:");
    MUILabelEditBox("Enter `your` name", "");
    MUILabelComboBox("Choose your age range", "0-6|6-14|14-18|18-24|24-36|36-48|48-65|65+");
MUITab("Second");
    MUIRadioButton("Male|Female",0,"Gender");
    MUICheckBox("Married",1);
    MUICheckBox("I am a parent",0);
MUITab("Third");
    MUILabelEditBrowseFile("Choose a file", "","Text files(*.txt)|*.txt");
    MUIListBox("A|B|C");
MUIActiveTab(2);

will generate a dialog which after some clicking and typing looks like this:

Screenshot: MUI dialog

The answers can be processed

Screenshot: WinEdt prompting the answers

Supported GUI elements:

Label: Standard label
Edit box: Standard edit box
Labeled edit box: Standard edit box with an optional label in front of it.
Check box: Standard check box
Radio button: Standard radio button
Combo box: Standard combo box. Combo box and radio button ar much alike but combo is more compact
Labeled combo box: Standard combo box with an optional label in front of it.
List box: Since list box is just expanded combo box i have modified it to list editing tool. So macro writers can add a list of values and users can edit them, delete them and add new items.
Edit box with browse for file button: Standard edit box with a button which opens a system open dialog and the chosen file path is fed to edit box.
Labeled edit box with browse for file button: Standard edit box with a button which opens a system open dialog and the chosen file path is fed to edit box, with an optional label in front of it.
Edit box with browse for folder button: Standard edit box with a button which opens a system browse for folder dialog and the chosen folder path is fed to edit box.
Labeled edit box with browse for folder button: Standard edit box with a button which opens a system browse for folder dialog and the chosen folder path is fed to edit box, with an optional label in front of it.
Link: Label with link capabilites.
Tab: Arranges components in tabs.

Installation

Download the installation file, run it adn follow the instrucions. If you have sufficient privileges (or you are running Windows 9x/Me) the plug-in should be installed in %B\Plugins\MUI (where %B stands for WinEdt's directory, f.i. C:\Program Files\WinEdt), otherwise it should be installed in %b\Plugins\MUI (where %b stands for user's WinEdt directory, f.i. C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\WinEdt) The file mui.txt contains all the information you need to use the MUI - please read it carefully!

Download

mui15.exe [486 KB]

This program was written by Denis Stancer <denissrce.hr>.