Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

[Mark]

Hi,

I am the author of pywinauto (http://pywinauto.openqa.org/).

It doesn't have specific functionality built in for winforms - but
many winforms controls are built on top of win32 functionality and
pywinauto can work with them for that.

On Jul 9, 4:41 pm, Paul McGuire <pt... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 1:50 pm, DuaneKaufman <duane.kauf... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an
> > > Internet Explorer browser - that's pretty GUI!
>

Wow - cool :)


> > > -- Paul
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Could you share some code examples?
>

You might have a look at http://pywinauto.pbworks.com/ (the site is no
longer used - but there is a cool movie giving an example of using
pywinauto at the interactive prompt)

Other examples (Notepad, mspaint) are included with the install.

PyPi - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywinauto/0.3.8


> > Thanks,
> > Duane (duanek (at) chorus (dot) net)
>

Good luck! :)
  Mark

> I just went on a brief fishing expedition through two disk backups,
> and no luck.  I guess it's been a while since I worked on this.
>
> The work I did was entirely graphical, which is to say, my script
> interacted with the Flash program by using PIL to take image snapshots
> of the window, and then sifting through the bitmap looking for the
> status of a "time remaining" thermometer-style gauge in the game.
> Then the script could click on X-Y coordinates within the window,
> which would get picked up by the Flash game, and the script would
> monitor the "time remaining" gauge some more, and so on.
>
> I'm not sure how well pywinauto would work in allowing you to access
> controls such as textboxes within a form.  I remember that I had to
> access the IE window using a caption name, and then found the embedded
> Flash program as an embedded control of some sort, again, I probably
> needed to indicate that it was some sort of "Adobe.FlashWidget1"
> object or something.
>
> I may have another, older disk backup at home, I can look for it later
> this evening.
>
> -- Paul