UIAutomation
By Descolada
pywinauto
Windows GUI Automation with Python (based on text properties) (by pywinauto)
| UIAutomation | pywinauto | |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 5 | |
| 149 | 4,629 | |
| - | 1.4% | |
| 4.7 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
| AutoHotkey | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
UIAutomation
Posts with mentions or reviews of UIAutomation.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
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Best Way to Wait for a Window To Be Ready
So, I query an element (via MSAA) that I know is only present after everything has loaded (busy wait). Another option is to use UI Automation to do the same.
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AHK Script to Click the Call(phone) button on Telegram
Technically the UIA or Acc way is also possible (in AHK v1 this would be UIA_Interface.ahk). Unfortunately the Telegram app is very badly designed from an accessibility perspective, so this will most likely break with any major updates to the app: ```
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IfWinActive with the Windows 10 clipboard history (Win+V)
However, being a UWP app, you'll be better off doing whatever you are going to do with Acc.ahk or UIAutomation.
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Checking if website is open in browser tab
But NEVER use key-sending for this, use MSAA (Acc.ahk) or UI Automation.
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Best method to automate Edge Browser
G33kDude's Chrome.ahk or UIAutomation.
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UIAViewer, mods and tweaks part 2
All credit for the original goes to: https://github.com/Descolada/UIAutomation
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SysTreeView32 management
The app is Java, so it will be quite easy to traverse the accessibility tree either via MSAA or UI Automation. But you will have to read upon the preferred library.
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Accessing Terminal Applications (PowerShell, LF, NVIM, ect) when housed inside of the newer Windows Terminal emulator?
You can access the list of tabs via accessibility, from there is just a matter of selecting the one you want. There's MSAA and UI Automation, take a pick.
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Pressing buttons in Microsoft Store window?
It might be worth checking out UIAutomation created by Descolada.
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With UIA Interface, how do I Dumpall elements?
Have you checked out Descolada's UIAutomation?
pywinauto
Posts with mentions or reviews of pywinauto.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
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DCSAutoMate: a program to automate cold starts, and anything else in the cockpit
My program would not be possible without DCS BIOS (specifically the Flightpanels fork, which is still actively maintained), so a special thank you to the contributors to that project. Also thanks to the creator of, and contributors to, pyWinAuto, another essential program for many of my startup scripts. I would also like to credit DiCE and DCSTheWay for some inspiration for what is possible, even though I ended up taking a different path.
- Just found out about something that's a lifesaver for working with undocumented COM objects
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Lightest rpa for simple skype task
Pywinauto doesn't seem to support waitforimage, and it has issues recognizing skype controls, https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto/issues/736. Ideally since skype is always updating, waitforimage is more ideal, so even if there's any button / control changes the mod needed is minimal.
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Automating Notepad and Excel applications in Python
In this article, we will learn how to automate boring stuff in windows using the Pywinauto module. Pywinauto is a bundle of Python modules for automating the Microsoft Windows GUI(Graphic user interface). It allows you to send your input action to windows dialogue and control.
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Pywinauto
How to fix it? Link is here: https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto/discussions/1209.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing UIAutomation and pywinauto you can also consider the following projects:
Chrome.ahk - Automate Google Chrome using native AutoHotkey
FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net