Hide Gui Buttons previously created

[justice]

In a loop I create a bunch of buttons with the following code:
Code:

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1. Gui, Add, Button, gButtonDestinationSelect HWNDButtonDestinationSelect%a_index%, %ButtonLabel%

Later on I want to hide/disable all these buttons using GuiControlGet, Hide but I'm not able to 'point' to these buttons, could anyone write a quick example?

[skwire]

GuiControlGet doesn't handle hiding/showing/disabling/enabling of buttons.  GuiControl does.  Consider this example:

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1. Loop, 6
2. {
3.     Gui, Add, Button, vmyButton%A_Index%, Click me
4. }
5. Gui, Show
6.  
7.  
8. Sleep, 1500 ; Small delay to show form before changes.
9.  
10.  
11. Loop, 6
12. {
13.     If ( Mod( A_Index, 2 ) = 1 ) ; Hide odd-numbered buttons.
14.     {
15.         GuiControl, Hide, myButton%A_Index%
16.     }
17.     Else ; Disable even-numbered buttons.
18.     {
19.         GuiControl, Disable, myButton%A_Index%
20.     }
21.     Sleep, 500 ; Small delay to show changes happening.
22. }
23.  
24. Return ; End of auto-execute section.
25.  
26.  
27. GuiClose:
28. GuiEscape:
29. {
30.     ExitApp
31. }
32. Return

[justice]

Thanks, sorry that was lazy typing I meant GuiControl. However, my buttons to not have variables assigned to them for a specific reason I cannot remember why, is there a way to do it without?

[skwire]

In regards to GuiControl -- you have two choices if you don't have variable names assigned to the buttons.

• You can use the "classname + instance number" combo.  Button1, Button2, etc.  I would advise against this method since that enumeration will change if you add other buttons before you add those looped buttons.
• You can use the text of the button itself.  Obviously, the text would need to be unique for each button (which I don't think it is in your case).

[justice]

Got it to work Great.

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1. Errorlevel =
2. GuiControl,Enable,btn1%a_index%
3.                 If ErrorLevel
4.                         Gui, Add, Button, vbtn1%a_index%, %ButtonLabel%
5.                 Else
6.                 {
7.                         GuiControl,Text,btn1%a_index%,%ButtonLabel%
8.                         GuiControl,Show,btn1%a_index%
9.                 }

I'm still not sure why I removed the variables initially, so will do serious testing.. Thanks so much skwire sometimes  AHK just lacks a simple example.