UI automation frameworks can't see the elements on windows desktop Question: I have a problem with accessing elements from Desktop after cloning and starting a Virtual machine’s snapshot. While catching the VM in the mentioned state, using pywinauto leads to a tree that looks like this: Pane – ‘Program Manager’ (L0, T0, R1920, B1200) [‘Program …
Pywinauto Not Entering Address into Mozilla Address bar Question: app = pywinauto.Application(backend="win32").start("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe") app = pywinauto.Application(backend="win32").connect(title_re=’.*Mozilla Firefox’, timeout=5) dlg_spec = app.window(title="Mozilla Firefox", class_name="MozillaWindowClass") #dlg_spec.print_control_identifiers() child_window = dlg_spec.child_window(class_name="MozillaCompositorWindowClass") address_bar = child_window.child_window(control_type=’Edit’, class_name=’Edit’) address_bar.set_edit_text("https://google.com") The above script launches Mozilla Firefox window and then throws the following runtime error after about 5-10 seconds: pywinauto.timings.TimeoutError: During handling of …
pywinauto/others – getting opened tabs url from Edge Question: I have question about possibility to get url of all opened tabs in Edge browser. I have started with pywinauto and I have possibility to get all tab names from Chrome or from Edge: from pywinauto import Desktop desktop = Desktop(backend="uia") window = desktop.windows(title_re="edge", control_type="Window")[0] # …
Automating WinSCP file transfer in Python using using pywinauto Question: I am trying to automate a file transfer process in WinSCP using Python and pywinauto. I am currently sending keyboard keys of Ctrl+ to open a directory and search a path, but when I run my program, it will not open the open directory window. …
Pywinauto Doesn't Detect New Window Follow Up Question Question: Referring to answer for this question pywinauto does not detect child window I have a similar issue where I click "New" button and a window appears to key in inputs. My problem is this new window is not listed in the print_control_identifiers(). Below is my entire …
Control Windows app (HMA VPN) using PyWinAuto Question: I am trying to write Python code to request my vpn software to connect / disconnect upon certain conditions. I use HMA VPN and am running on Windows 10. Python 3.9.5. The PyWinAuto module would appear to have the required functionality, but I cannot get it to …
ctypes.ArgumentError when using kivy with pywinauto Question: I have a kivy application that can interact with other windows using the pywinauto module. The application works fine in Linux (where pywinauto isn’t used) but in Windows I get the following error, the application won’t even start up: C:Program Files (x86)Python36_64libsite-packagespywinauto__init__.py:80: UserWarning: Revert to STA COM threading …
How to wait for the specific image to appear on screen using pyautogui? Question: I have one application which I am able to automate using the pyautogui module. I am keeping the reference image in the script directory, and after some sleep time, I am able to complete it. In some builds, the specific image …
