v2 GUI changes
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I just saw your new commits with the branches. The v2-078 is still compatible with the old GUI syntax. The new GUI build is only a test build that hasn't yet been released as an alpha release yet (but will probably be 079). It doesn't look like they will be cross-compatible, but I wonder if we can do if (A_AhkVersion < 2) like in the past (25bc1dd) so that we don't have to have two separate branches. That would be preferable
The v2-078 is still compatible with the old GUI syntax
Is this really true?
At least YUnit doesn't run anymore with AutoHotkey 2.0-a78 within my environment. I took this as reason to switch over to new syntax (well knowing it isn't stable anymore). As I probably will only use V2 in the future, I'm not really interested in supporting a "multi-version" variant of window.ahk.
As far as I've seen it might be difficult to use if (A_AhkVersion < 2).
But supplying two variants of window.ahk within the main branch might be an alternative. As Ahk 2.0-a78 ist still pre-alpha, I still would prefer having it on a branch - until it gets more official.
078 made some changes to MsgBox and InputBox, maybe something like that got broken:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=2120&p=138141#p138141
The new GUI builds are on top of the 078 build, but they are test builds and not official alpha releases yet
But yes you're right, v2 is alpha so the syntax will continue to change. But we could always just keep it up to date too. The way v2 is going, it might not be out of alpha for another year or two anyway lol
So what's our agreement now?
Keeping V2.0-a78 changes on a separate branch until V2.0-a78 syntax changes leave pre-alpha stage?
Maintaining two versions of window.ahk afterwards - one for AHK 1.1 to AHK 2.0-a77 and the other for after AHK 2.0-a77?
After all what I've seen, I like the new GUI-interface of AHK 2.0-a78 much more than the older one (it was alway a pain for me wrinting GUI in AHK ... ;-)) - so probably when it get's more stable, I won't go back to an older version. I don't mind using an 2.0-alpha version as it seems to converge and has a little update frequency. Porting Window.ahk to the new syntax was just my first exercise, to examinate the new syntax ... (and check the efforts of porting)
I think its fine to leave it as two branches for now. We can revisit it later when the syntax is finalized