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martin
martin

Reputation: 35

(Pywinauto) How to connect to new window when you dont know its name

Im doing automation for a chat application on windows by module Pywinauto in python. When i create a new chat room, it generated a new window with unfixed name of window. The window name depends on numbers of chat room members. Example : if there are two members, chat room name displayed as name of that two members. But if there are more than 5 members, chat room name will be showns as member x and 4 others.

So the windows name is always changed. I dont know how to connect the new window to perform action

Im using Desktop(backend ='uia') Backend win32 is also too

(SOLVED) I walkaround and found a solution for this. Step1: connect to mainwindow (app = Application(backend ='uia').connect(title = mainwindowapp)

Step2: get top window ( app.top_window() )

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1173

Answers (1)

Vasily Ryabov
Vasily Ryabov

Reputation: 10000

If this new window is in the same process, it's better to use Application(backend="uia").connect(process=pid) where you can get pid from main window by method .process_id(). Then you can get all top level windows of this process:

from pywinauto import Desktop, Application

pid = Desktop(backend="uia").window(title="Main Window Title").process_id()
app = Application(backend="uia").connect(process=pid)
top_windows_before = app.windows()
# do some actions (create new chat)
for w in app.windows():
    if w not in top_windows_before:
        new_chat = w

Comparison between wrapper objects should work, that's why I suggest boolean operator w not in top_windows_before.

Upvotes: 2

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