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> wrote: > On Jul 9, 1:50 pm, DuaneKaufman <duane.kauf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an > > > Internet Explorer browser - that's pretty GUI! > Wow - cool :) > > > -- Paul > > > Hi, > > > Could you share some code examples? > You might have a look at http://pywinauto.pbworks.com/ (the site is no longer used - but there is a cool movie giving an example of using pywinauto at the interactive prompt) Other examples (Notepad, mspaint) are included with the install. PyPi - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywinauto/0.3.8 > > Thanks, > > Duane (duanek (at) chorus (dot) net) > Good luck! :) Mark > I just went on a brief fishing expedition through two disk backups, > and no luck. I guess it's been a while since I worked on this. > > The work I did was entirely graphical, which is to say, my script > interacted with the Flash program by using PIL to take image snapshots > of the window, and then sifting through the bitmap looking for the > status of a "time remaining" thermometer-style gauge in the game. > Then the script could click on X-Y coordinates within the window, > which would get picked up by the Flash game, and the script would > monitor the "time remaining" gauge some more, and so on. > > I'm not sure how well pywinauto would work in allowing you to access > controls such as textboxes within a form. I remember that I had to > access the IE window using a caption name, and then found the embedded > Flash program as an embedded control of some sort, again, I probably > needed to indicate that it was some sort of "Adobe.FlashWidget1" > object or something. > > I may have another, older disk backup at home, I can look for it later > this evening. > > -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
