I'm new to pywinauto and I'm creating several notepad windows and typing a text in all of them. However, this is not dependent on each other, so this can be run concurrently using threads.
However, when I try to do the same, the text get messed up because there are several threads trying to access the type_keys() method at the same time. Is there any way I can achieve the same concurrently?
There is another method .set_text("...") that doesn't require window to be in focus. It's available for edit box only.
.type_keys() or .click_input() is not a good choice for concurrent automation or for a locked machine / minimized RDP. More details can be found in Remote Execution Guide.
you can also try this importing keybord from pywinauto and the send the line you would like to send this is a small exemple :
from pywinauto import application
from pywinauto import keyboard
app = application.Application()
app.start("Notepad.exe")
keyboard.SendKeys('hello')
with this code you will open Notepade and write hello in Notepad , I just created to .py file and both have same code and I did call them on main file and worked perfect
I created A.py and put code on it and I created B.py and put same code and in C.py I did import A , import B it and run it it did open 2 Notpad and wrote the text look for this example :
A.py
from pywinauto import application
from pywinauto import keyboard
app = application.Application()
app.start("Notepad.exe")
keyboard.SendKeys('hello')
B.py
from pywinauto import application
from pywinauto import keyboard
app = application.Application()
app.start("Notepad.exe")
keyboard.SendKeys('hello friends',with_spaces=True)
C.py
import A,B
and run C.py make sur all the files are saved in same folder
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I have a certain script that i want to run on the background. I know that similar questions have been asked but i am still having a hard time achieving this.
Here is my code
import pywinauto
from pywinauto import Application
import time
app = Application().start("notepad.exe")
#app = Application().connect(title="test.txt-Σημειωματάριο")
app.window().set_focus()
app.window().minimize()
time.sleep(2)
app.window().send_keystrokes("{ENTER}")
The above code is minmizing the notepad window but i cant see that enter was indeed pressed. Same goes for other keystrokes that i tried. What am i doing wrong?
I have a wX application that I would like to control programmatically, from a Python Script. I tried to accomplish this by writing the following code:
Application = myApp()
myGUI= openGUI(Application)
This successfully opens an instance of my wX application, and I can then interact with this via its GUI, for instance by clicking Open File. However, I was hoping I could send commands by writing code like:
myGUI.OnFileOpen(myFile)
Unfortunately, inspecting "myGUI" in the debugger reveals the value of this variable to be "nothing". So I cannot access the methods of the running wX GUI via my proposed method.
If anyone could offer a suggestion for how to accomplish my goal, I would really appreciate it.
It's kind of hard to explain. Maybe the result is out there but I couldn't find it.
Simply put; I would like to run hotkeys on a program running on my desktop (Windows) via Python.
I have a 3rd party program that I have assigned certain hotkeys/keybindings to. For example when ctrl+Fn5 keys are pressed a certain command executes on that program.
What I want to do via Python scripts is to execute the mentioned hotkey (like ctrl+Fn5) on that program. (as if that program had focus on it and those keys were pressed)
I have been trying to do it via win32com.client. But the program itself doesn't allow that feature directly via its libraries. I also tried pywinauto but again it doesn't provide the libraries needed (tried analyzing it with other tools like swapy).
I have used catching hotkeys on python before. But they were for the Python application itself.
for example:
def keyPressEvent(self, e):
if e.modifiers() & Qt.ControlModifier and e.modifiers() & Qt.ShiftModifier and e.key() == Qt.Key_V:
# do somthing
What I need is to execute the hotkeys with the focus on the other program.
I looked into the os module to see if there was anything there that could help me but couldn't find anything.
Using pywinauto modules i got it to work. The trick was getting the focus on the program itself.
from pywinauto.application import Application
from pywinauto.keyboard import SendKeys
app = Application().connect(path='path_to_programs_exe_file')
app_dialog = app.top_window()
app_dialog.maximize()
app_dialog.set_focus()
SendKeys('^{F5}')
A GUI I've created uses multiprocess.Process function call to finish work quicker by using more than one process.
w1 = multiprocessing.Process(target = _process_worker.start)
When I run the GUI as a python script gui.py any I click the button that starts the workers everything works great, work is done quicker and no issues.
When I compile the python program into a window applications (using pyinstaller), clicking the same button causes the GUI to start multiple instances of itself; that is everytime the multiprocess call is made, the gui starts another gui application.
pyinstaller.ex --onefile --windowed --icon=guiicon.ico gui.py
Does anyone know how I can have the process just do the work instead of opening multiple instances of itself? Why is it doing this in the first place?
In using the multiprocessing module, you must call
multiprocessing.freeze_support()
straight after the if __name__ == '__main__': line of the main module.
Please read the Python library manual about multiprocessing.freeze_support for more information.
Reference: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/Recipe-Multiprocessing
I want to run my external (.exe) program on window using python. in order to run a specific task of that program(the .exe) , i need to know the method and call in inside my test.py (my python file), how do i call a function in my python?
import subprocess
subprocess.call(['C:\\EnergyPlusV7-2-0\EP-Launch.exe', 'C:\\modelo_0001.idf'])
now i need to call a method through python to run a specific task on the external program(the .exe file), but how? can someone give me an example format? there s a button say 'simulate', i need to get the method for that button so that i can execute it through python!
You should try to use pywinauto for that: http://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/
Install it and read docs.
example:
from pywinauto import application
app = application.Application.start("C:\\EnergyPlusV7-2-0\\EP-Launch.exe")
# open dialog here with pywinauto (see docs), it's bound to interface can't help here
# press next button
Also look into SWAPY it will generate automation python code for pywinauto.
http://code.google.com/p/swapy/