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shafuq
shafuq

Reputation: 465

Cannot access Menu Bar Items via pywinauto

I'm automating the following program via Python: (Surfer)

http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/surfer

Some portions of it i cannot control using win32com.client (the program libraries do not support it). The part i need to get working can be done by using the programs menu bar. It's just 5 clicks i need to get done. So as an alternative i have been trying to use pywinauto (my first try with this). But this time i can not get the menu bar items. I tried analyzing the menus via swapy (https://github.com/pywinauto/SWAPY) but the MenuItems field show up empty (as an empty list []).

here is some test code:

from pywinauto.application import Application

app = Application(backend="uia").connect(process=2984)  # tried "win32" as backend also

srf = app.window(process=2984)

srf.menu_select("Help")

I get the error:

"RuntimeError: There is no menu."

The menus I am trying to access are within:

Any help will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2717

Answers (1)

shafuq
shafuq

Reputation: 465

I finally was able to get the menu controlled via pywinauto:

app_dialog.child_window(title="Menu Bar").set_focus()

From there is was a matter of controlling the keyboard with the SendKeys() module.

It's a workaround but it gets the job done.

Upvotes: 1

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