pywinauto 0.3.0

Python library for GUI automation and testing

pywinauto is a set of python modules to automate the Microsoft Windows GUI. At it’s simplest it allows you to send mouse and keyboard actions to windows dialogs and controls.

0.3.0 Added Application data - now useful for localization testing

20-Mar-2006

• Added automatic Application data collection which can be used when running the same test on a different spoken language version. Support is still preliminary and is expected to change. Please treat as early Alpha.

  If you have a different language version of Windows then you can try this out by running the notepad_fast.py example with the langauge argument e.g.

  examples\notepad_fast.py language

  This will load the application data from the supplied file notepad_fast.pkl and use it for finding the right menu items and controls to select.

• Test implementation to make it easier to start using an application. Previously you needed to write code like

  app = Application().connect_(title = 'Find')
  app.Find.Close.Click()
  app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit")

  1st change was to implement static methods start() and connect(). These methods return a new Application instance so the above code becomes:

  app = Application.connect(title = 'Find')
  app.Find.Close.Click()
  app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit")

  I also wanted to make it easier to start working with a simple application - that may or may not have only one dialog. To make this situation easier I made window_() not throw if the application has not been start()ed or connect()ed first. This leads to simpler code like:

  app = Application()
  app.Find.Close.Click()
  app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit")
  
    What happens here is that when you execute any of Application.window_(),
    Application.__getattr__() or Application.__getitem__() when the
    application hasn't been connected or started. It looks for the window
    that best matches your specification and connects the application to
    that process.
  
    This is extra functionality - existing connect_() and
    start_() methods still exist

• Fixed HwndWrapper.SetFocus() so that it would work even if the window was not in the foreground. (it now makes the window foreground as well as giving it focus). This overcomes a restriction in Windows where you can only change the foreground window if you own the foreground window.

• Changed some 2.4’isms that an anonymous commenter left on my blog :-) with these changes pywinauto should run on Python 2.3 (though I haven’t done extensive testing).

• Commented out controls.common_controls.TabControlWrapper.GetTabState() and TabStates() as these did not seem to be returning valid values anyway.

• Fixed documentation issues were parts of the documentation were not getting generated to the HTML files.

• Fixed issue where MenuSelect would sometimes not work as expected. Some Menu actions require that the window that owns the menu be active. Added a call to SetFocus() before selecting a menu item to ensure that the window was active.

• Fixed Bug 1452832 where clipboard was not closed in clipboard.GetData()

• Added more unit tests now up to 248 from 207

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