pywinauto VS UIAutomation

Compare pywinauto vs UIAutomation and see what are their differences.

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pywinauto UIAutomation
5 18
4,629 149
2.9% -
0.0 4.7
2 days ago 28 days ago
Python AutoHotkey
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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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.
  • DCSAutoMate: a program to automate cold starts, and anything else in the cockpit
    3 projects | /r/hoggit | 9 Feb 2023
    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
    3 projects | /r/AutoHotkey | 11 Oct 2022
  • Lightest rpa for simple skype task
    1 project | /r/rpa | 6 Aug 2022
    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.
  • Automating Notepad and Excel applications in Python
    2 projects | dev.to | 24 May 2022
    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.
  • Pywinauto
    1 project | dev.to | 6 May 2022
    How to fix it? Link is here: https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto/discussions/1209.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pywinauto and UIAutomation you can also consider the following projects:

FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net

Chrome.ahk - Automate Google Chrome using native AutoHotkey

Windows-10-Toast-Notifications - Python library to display Windows 10 Toast Notifications

AHK-Tools - Little Tools created with AHK

CPython - The Python programming language

Python-UIAutomation-for-Windows - (Donot use 3.7.6,3.8.1):snake:Python 3 wrapper of Microsoft UIAutomation. Support UIAutomation for MFC, WindowsForm, WPF, Modern UI(Metro UI), Qt, IE, Firefox, Chrome ...

PyMemoryEditor - :floppy_disk: Multi-platform library developed with ctypes for reading, writing and searching process memory, in a simple and friendly way with Python 3. The package supports Windows and Linux (32-bit and 64-bit).

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

kivy - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS

RemoteTreeView-V2 - Class to access data from external TreeView Control, Written in V2

python-benchmark-harness - A micro/macro benchmark framework for the Python programming language that helps with optimizing your software.

telegram-bot-ruby - Ruby wrapper for Telegram's Bot API