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Jeremy Kao
Jeremy Kao

Reputation: 943

Interact with UI controls of Windows Store apps

I am not able to identify UI controls of Windows Store apps using AutoIt Window Information Tool. The standard app Calculator for example (Windows 10):

Not able to identify the button number 8

As you can see, it doesn't show information for button 8. I tried both x86 and x64 versions.

How to interact with Windows Store apps? For traditional desktop apps AutoIt works as expected.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2271

Answers (2)

Vasily Ryabov
Vasily Ryabov

Reputation: 10000

It's impossible, AutoIt developers have no plans to support UI Automation API. You can find Inspect.exe in your Windows SDK and run it in UIA mode to compare with AutoIt Info tool.

There are some other tools supporting UIA (TestStack.White (C#), Winium.Desktop (C#) and some direct UIA wrappers on other languages like pyuiautomation on Python). pywinauto 0.6.0 added MS UI Automation support.

UIA support for AutoIt; 24 Apr 2009 AutoIt forum thread. Plans may have changed, but it's the top result for a "AutoIt WPF support" Google search.

Upvotes: 4

Milos
Milos

Reputation: 2946

In order to use Autoit Window info tool in Win10 you should use 64bit version exe.

Au3Info_x64.exe

Common location is C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Au3Info_x64.exe

Upvotes: -1

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