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fbonds66
fbonds66

Reputation: 351

How do I control a non-browser window that is part of Firefox?

I'm on OSX using Python 2.x, Selenium & Firefox

I'm automating testing a javascript webapp with Python & Selenium.

One of the links (Add File) in the application opens up a non-browser firefox window titled "File Upload" which looks like (/is?) a Finder window.

Is there a way that I could locate and control this window from my python script? I know Selenium can't do it, but I wondering if it might be possible with something like 'import applescript' and if so how?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 484

Answers (2)

fbonds66
fbonds66

Reputation: 351

I found atomac which allows me to control mac apps through their accessibility controls (which needed to be enabled on Mavericks for Aptana in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility). Cool tool, but the documentation is pretty sparse. The examples provided on the page above got me to the point where I could close the window via the cancel button, but I had to review the function definitions in atomac's AXClasses.py to figure out the rest. Here's the solution.

import atomac, time
from atomac.AXKeyCodeConstants import *

# to allow me to make firefox frontmost while testing
time.sleep(5)

# get a reference to the running app
firefox = atomac.getAppRefByLocalizedName('Firefox')

# get the window of the reference
firefoxwindow = firefox.windowsR()[0]

# send key sequence to go to my home folder
firefoxwindow.sendKeyWithModifiers('h',[COMMAND,SHIFT])

# send key sequence to select first file there
firefoxwindow.sendKeyWithModifiers('a',[COMMAND])

# press the now active Open button
openbutton = firefoxwindow.buttons('Open')[0]
openbutton.Press()

Upvotes: 3

khagler
khagler

Reputation: 4056

It's theoretically possible, but really awkward. I'll give you a bunch of links--not ideal, I know, but you could write a book on this.

You'd need to start by enabling AppleScript control of the GUI. Then you'll want to read up on how to control the GUI from within Applescript. However, you wanted to use Python and not AppleScript, so then you'll need to install PyObjC, which is a Python to Cocoa bridge. You'd need to use the Scripting Bridge framework and figure out (from the extremely thin documentation) how to translate the AppleScript docs to Python.

Upvotes: 2

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