Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-10 Thread Kelie
On Jul 9, 5:50 pm, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a great Python package called pyAA that does exactly this: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtmlhttp://mindtrove.info/articles/gui-automation-with-pyaa/ -- Tim Roberts,

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-10 Thread 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...@austin.rr.com

Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread TheSeeker
Hi, I am embarking on teaching myself Microsoft UI Automation using Python as the scripting language. I have asked some questions in the IronPython users group, but have yet to get a response, so I thought I would broaden the audience by asking here. Specifically, I have a WinForms application

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting to automate. Does anyone have some Python examples of driving Microsoft UI Automation they could share with me to get me started? The structure of the UI automation classes

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting to automate. Does anyone have some Python examples of driving Microsoft UI Automation they could share with me to

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting to automate. Does anyone have some Python examples of

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 12:45 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: The application I wish to interact with is not my own, but an ERP system GUI front-end. I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an Internet Explorer browser - that's pretty GUI! -- Paul --

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 1:29 pm, Paul McGuire pt...@austin.rr.com wrote: On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: The application I wish to interact with is not my own, but an ERP system GUI front-end. I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an Internet

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Torrie
DuaneKaufman wrote: With MS utilities like UISpy and the like, I can 'see' the controls in the application, but I do not seem to be able to manipulate them programatically, and I believe it us simply due to my not understanding of the UI Automation API. You're probably better off using a

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Michael Torrie
TheSeeker wrote: Alternatives to Microsoft's UI Automation are welcome too, but I have tried using winguiauto and watsup (along with AutoIt), and there seems to be severe limitations when using these tools with WinForm applications. http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96752

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 4:12 pm, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: TheSeeker wrote: Alternatives to Microsoft's UI Automation are welcome too, but I have tried using winguiauto and watsup (along with AutoIt), and there seems to be severe limitations when using these tools with WinForm

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Roberts
TheSeeker duane.kauf...@gmail.com wrote: I am embarking on teaching myself Microsoft UI Automation using Python as the scripting language. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a great Python package called pyAA that does exactly this: