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 wrote: > On Jul 9, 1:50 p

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-10 Thread Kelie
On Jul 9, 5:50 pm, Tim Roberts 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, t...@probo.

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Roberts
TheSeeker 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: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml http://mindt

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 4:12 pm, Michael Torrie 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 > > applications. > > ht

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=967

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 Paul McGuire
On Jul 9, 1:50 pm, DuaneKaufman wrote: > > I have used pywinauto to drive a Flash game running inside of an > > Internet Explorer browser - that's pretty GUI! > > > -- Paul > > Hi, > > Could you share some code examples? > > Thanks, > Duane (duanek (at) chorus (dot) net) I just went on a brief fi

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 1:29 pm, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman 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! >

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 9, 1:09 pm, DuaneKaufman 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 12:45 pm, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman wrote: > > > On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig wrote: > >> On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker wrote: > >> > Specifically, I have a WinForms application I will be wanting to > >> > automate. Does anyone have some Python examples of driving Mic

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, DuaneKaufman wrote: > On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig wrote: >> On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker 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

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread DuaneKaufman
On Jul 9, 12:18 pm, Tim Harig wrote: > On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker 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

Re: Examples of Python driven Microsoft UI Automation wanted

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Harig
On 2009-07-09, TheSeeker 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 etc. seem quite convolu

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 I