I have java application. I want to find automation_id's for each control. I used print_control_identifiers() and dump_tree(). But, it took lot of time (more that 2 hours).Is there any possible way to get automation_id's within in small time? Also, with my application after clicking on button one window is opened. How can I find automation_id's for this window only?
use Inspect.exe to find automation id's of any control
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I have a script that is used to login in to a company-made application and click the right buttons like "continue", or "ok", etc. to perform a certain process. However, I have had to use screenshots of these buttons to click in order to do this using pyautogui. Is there any package or way to automate this process without using images. Maybe it can detect the text of the button and click it. I do not have identifiers for the buttons available and no access to the code/info behind the application. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks!
I have a few questions that may be helpful:
Does the layout of the buttons change? If it's always the same you can just program the correct locations and timing and not worry about reading the screen.
If you really have to read the screen, look into optical character recognition (ocr).
Is the application keyboard accessible? If so, using Tab and Enter to activate the buttons is simpler than controlling the mouse. Also, if it was made by superstars you can use find (ctrl-F) to search for the text on the buttons and go to them.
This answer is pretty vague, but I can only be as specific as the question asked.
I am pretty unfamiliar with the automation environment but I'm looking to create a solution for a problem I'm having right now.
There is a proprietary application on my work laptop that shows me some relevant information. Above the table is a refresh button that I have to click as often as possible to refresh this table until a new row shows up which I have to process.
My first approach to this was to create a small .exe in Python that would control the mouse and click the refresh button on an interval and then take a screenshot of the part of the application where the new row would show up and compare it to a screenshot without the row to check that there is a difference.
The issue with that approach is that I would be unable to use the laptop when this program would run as it would control the mouse and the window would have to be in focus.
What other approach could I take to tackle this?
The goal is to have an application that runs on top of all other applications and windows in the desktop, and display a clickable control (say, an image button) that moves around the screen.
The application must run as a service in the background and show thebutton (let's say) each hour, once clicked it disappears until the next hour.
This application has to be written in Python.
It looks like PyQt is one of the better options, but I'm not sure if it does support this sort of functionality and if it is a good alternative for modern Windows applications.
What packages or frameworks are appropriate for this scenario? I have seen Pygl and PyGame but they seem to be limited to a window, is this correct?
You actually don't need to create the program as a service. You can just start the application and not show the window immediately. You can use PyQt or wxPython. I'm more familiar with wxPython, so if you went that route, you could use a wx.Frame style flag such as wx.STAY_ON_TOP to get the functionality you want.
I have created applications that load up in the system tray with just an icon. When you click the icon, it shows the frame. The rest of the time, the frame is hidden. I would try that route before looking at doing a service.
Beginner python learner here. I have a question that I have tried to Google but I just can't come up with the proper way to ask in just a few words (partly because I don't know the right terminology.)
How do I get python to detect other widgets? For example, if I wanted a script to check and see when I click my mouse if that click put focus on an entry widget on a (for example) website. I've been trying to get it to work in Tkinter and I can't figure out even where to begin.
I've seen this:
focus_displayof(self)
Return the widget which has currently the focus on the
display where this widget is located.
But the return value for that function seems to be some ambiguous long number I can't decipher, plus it only works in its own application.
Any direction would be much appreciated. :)
Do you mean inside your own GUI code, or some other application's/website's?
Sounds like you're looking for a GUI driver, or GUI test/automation driver. There are tons of these, some great, some awful, many abandoned. If you tell us more about what you want that will help narrow down the choices.
Is this for testing, or automation, or are you going to drive the mouse and button yourself and just want something to observe what is going on under the hood in the GUI?
>How do I get Python to detect other widgets?
On a machine, or in a browser? If in a machine, which platform: Linux/Windows (which)/Mac?
If in a browser, which browser (and major version)?
> But the return value for that function seems to be some ambiguous long number I can't decipher
Using longs as resource handles is par for the course, although good GUI drivers also work with string/regex matching on window and button names.
> plus it only works in its own application.
What do you mean, and what are you expecting it to return you? You should be able to look up that GUI object and access its title. Look for a GUI driver that works with window and button names.
Here is one list, read it through and see what sounds useful. I have used AutoIt under Win32, it's great, widely-used and actively-maintained; it can be called from Python (via subprocess).
Here are comparisons by the author of PyWinAuto on his and similar tools. Give a read to his criticisms of its structure from 2010. If none of these is what you want, at least you now have the vocabulary to tell us what would be...
I'm working on a project to increase the ability for wine to automatically test software packages. What I'm looking to do now is detect text in the screen capture of the current window. I can then parse all of the text and use autohotkey to give a mouse click on the coordinates of the text I want.
For example, in firefox, I might want to test different things, the first open being opening preferences. I would then need to parse the screenshot of firefox, detect all of the separate locations of text. I can then run these separate images of text into tesseract-ocr and detect which one, says "Edit". I then redo this again for "preferences".
I've tried to find a solution but so far can't find anything. I'd prefer a solution that uses python or has python binds as thats what I've been programing in so far.
A possible starting point is Project SIKULI. It is a tool to automate GUI testing. It is written in Java, nonetheless it includes a scripting environment based on Jython, hence modifying it to support python script may be not too difficult.