I'm searching for a programming language or python plugin to simulate user input, like clicking a button in a application(a bit like the python plugin 'Selenium'). The problem i have is, that I would like to have the application running in the background, so that I can still use my PC while the program is running.
Sorry if the question is vague, i just don't know where to start.
simulate user input, like clicking a button in a application
I suggest taking look at PyAutoGUI, it allows you to cause mouse move, mouse click, keyboard write and so on. It is cross-platform. I do not know if it will met your have the application running in the background requirement on all platforms you must support.
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I am using a code designed by another person in MAC OS. I am using Windows instead and have slightly modified it, but the problem comes when using the GUI that is created.
I have already dealt with a similar issue with a slider. Once I pressed the slider, I couldn´t release it or press another button. I was forced to quit the GUI and start again. I solved it by changing the event command from EVT_COMMAND_SCROLL to EVT_COMMAND_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK. However I did not understand why it worked in MAC OS and does not work in Windows.
Now, I want to close the GUI with the typical cross inside the red button in the right corner of the window. I can do it if it is the first order I do in the GUI. If I first press any button or slider, the exit button does not work.
It made me consider if a major problem is hidden in the code which I am not seeing. I am new at wxPython, which is the module used in the code.
I just ask for your opinion and hope it is a basic error.
Thanks very much
Ok, so what I want to do is allow my program to send mouse movements and keypresses (both mouse and keyboard) to a particular task without having to be tabbed into the task so I can do other things on my computer with the mouse and keyboard while the task runs. Is it possible to do this relatively simply with existing python modules?
example of what I want to do:
task='application name'
task.leftclick
task.moveX(int)
task.moveY(int)
task.keypress(r)
All while being able to use my mouse and keyboard normally on a different application.
Thanks for the help in advance!
(Python3.6)
For anyone who happens upon this post, I found https://pypi.org/project/ahk/ I haven't looked into it fully but either you can use this or create an auto hotkey script and just call that with you python code to achieve what I wanted to do in the question.
I have a tkinter program written in python 3.3.3. I see myself in the need of making the the program get focus when the user unlocks the computer. I don't really know how to go ahead and start with this, users have a .exe version of the program that I created with cxfreeze. I f i need to modify the .py and create another .exe, that wouldn't be a problem.
After some research I found that one can use the ctypes module to lock the computer, but it's not very helpful because i need to know if it is locked or unlocked. I also saw commands from win32com, but i can't seem to be able to find a way to trigger a command when it gets unlocked.
What is the best way to get focus on my program after the computer is unlocked??
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I cannot answer this specifically for 'unlock' event (if there even is one in the GUI; I can't find one by cursory search.).
But I think the real answer is to change the question. Having a program simply take focus when user unlocks the display is very un-Windows-ish behavior. The Windows user expects to see the desktop just as s/he left it before the display was locked -- why does s/he want to see your program on top when unlocking, regardless of why Windows might have locked the display?
Maybe you want to recast your program as something that runs in the background and pops up a notification (in the notification area on the right side of toolbar) when it wants user to do something?
I have to write a script to emulate some keyboard event in a different program in background.This is my code：
pwin = win32ui.FindWindow(None,r'someprograme')
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,18)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,68)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,18)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,68)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,13)
pwin.SendMessage(win32con.WM_KEYUP,13)
But it seems nothing happened.So what should i do?I've tried PostMessage func it seems it still can not do it.
After a quick look at the WM_KEYDOWN docs:
Posted to the window with the keyboard focus when a nonsystem key is pressed. A nonsystem key is a key that is pressed when the ALT key is not pressed.
But looking up your keycodes, you're trying to send ALT-D (followed by ENTER, which is fine). It sounds like you're trying to drive the menus; if that's what you want to do, WM_KEYDOWN is not the way to do it.
The problem is that keyboard menu navigation is driven by Windows, not by the app (except for a handful of apps that override normal menu processing, like some versions of Visual Studio). When you're looking at Notepad, and you hit ALT-F to open the File menu, the Notepad code gets a bunch of menu-related messages (WM_INITMENU, etc.), not the keystrokes.
If you use a WM spy program (I think the free Visual Studio Express still comes with Spy++ and ManagedSpy, but if not, search for an equivalent), you can see what the application is actually seeing when you drive it with the keyboard, and then you can figure out how to emulate that from your Python script.
On top of everything else, depending on how the program is written, it may not accept keystrokes when it doesn't have focus.
By the way, if you're just getting started with Windows GUI automation, you might want to look at something higher level, like pywinauto. That way, you don't have to work out what menu-related messages to send to open the Data menu; you just do something like app.Foo.MenuSelect('Data').
When you tkSimpleDialog.askinteger, the program stalls and waits for user input. What are the basics of writing my own method that would have the same effect? I want to make the same kind of dialog box, I just want to be able to request more information.
The problem that I'm having is that when I open the new window using Tk.Toplevel, the program does not wait for user input the way tkSimpleDialog.askinteger does.
First off, if you can use some other widget system like PyGtk or PyQt, you should seriously consider it. Tkinter is ancient, and the newer libraries have a lot more functionality (read: more things you don't have to reinvent). I've used PyGtk and like it a lot more than Tkinter, which I used in the old Python 1.x days.
That said, in Tkinter, you need to do this:
widget.wait_window(window)
This ties up the event loop waiting for the user to dismiss the dialog.
Reference: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/dialog-windows.htm