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kronosjt
kronosjt

Reputation: 773

Python pyautogui window handle

Using pyautogui is there a way to get a handle to a window so that I can ensure that a click is performed on that window only? In other words, if my window isn't in focus, then the click does not occur. Additionally, if my window isn't in focus then I bring it into focus and then perform the actions.

The way to identify a window could be an ID, window title etc similar to this https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinGet.htm

Is there any other Python module that supports this kind of functionality?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 100935

Answers (6)

Nam G VU
Nam G VU

Reputation: 35374

Working for me with pygetwindow

pygetwindow.getWindowsWithTitle(title='Stack Overflow')[0] .activate()

Upvotes: 0

Vasanth Prabakar
Vasanth Prabakar

Reputation: 451

This code might help to get what window you want to minimize or maximize. Example: If you want to get a Chrome window titled "Stack Overflow",

    pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle("Stack Overflow")[0].minimize()

Or if you want to minimize or maximize any file explorer window that titled "music", the same thing applies.

    pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle("music")[0].maximize()

If you are not sure about which window you require, you can get a list using this

Note, must call pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle(), dont call as

from pyautogui import getWindowsWithTitle
getWindowsWithTitle()  # will raise error

Upvotes: 22

Dmytro Bugayev
Dmytro Bugayev

Reputation: 676

A hybrid pyautogui/win32gui solution for Windows:

  • if window is minimized, restore it
  • then focus on it using a single win32gui call, passing in the window handle
import pyautogui
import win32gui
import time

window = pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle("Your Window Title")[0]
rect = window._rect
if rect.x == -32000 or rect.y == -32000: # minimized check
    window.restore()
    time.sleep(1)      # if restoring, need to wait briefly to set to foreground
win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(window._hWnd)

Upvotes: 0

Hondo
Hondo

Reputation: 1

In order to use pyautogui on app pages that are already maximized but not in focus First Minimize ten Maximize:

pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle("FileZilla")[0].minimize()
pyautogui.getWindowsWithTitle("FileZilla")[0].maximize()

Upvotes: 0

user7711283
user7711283

Reputation:

Is there any other Python module that supports this kind of functionality?

https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto

https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#some-similar-tools-for-comparison lists as other similar Python tools:

  • PyAutoGui - a popular cross-platform library (has image-based search, no text-based controls manipulation).
  • Lackey - a pure Python replacement for Sikuli (based on image pattern matching).
  • AXUI - one of the wrappers around MS UI Automation API. winGuiAuto - another module using Win32 API.

Upvotes: 8

Tom Hundt
Tom Hundt

Reputation: 1830

PyAutoGui itself says, in its documentation's FAQ section,

Q: Can PyAutoGUI figure out where windows are or which windows are visible? Can it focus, maximize, minimize windows? Can it read the window titles?

A: Unfortunately not, but these are the next features planned for PyAutoGUI. This functionality is being implemented in a Python package named PyGetWindow, which will be included in PyAutoGUI when complete.

Now, if you go on over to PyGetWindow's repo, you'll see there's no code there yet, but there is a random_notes.txt file, with this pointer:

Finding window titles on Windows:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37501191/how-to-get-windows-window-names-with-ctypes-in-python

which has some interesting information. (I haven't tried it yet.)

Upvotes: 14

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