I am creating a desktop recording program, I am designing the interface using Glade, and I am using GtkHeaderBar and client-side decoration.
This is what I have as an example: Example interface
My question is: How can I move the about button - for example - to be after the title text, so that I get 3 buttons before the title, and 1 after it, just like GNOME applications?
I Googled and got to gtk-decoration-layout, but couldn't find a real way to use it (Seems it will be system-wide if used).
gtk-decoration-layout is for the minimize/maximize/close buttons. You want pack_end() instead of pack_start(). If you're using glade, it'll be under the Packing tab when you select the given child.
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I am trying to automate a self made GUI in python with pywinauto.
I am starting the application with app = Application().start(...) and get the window with dlg = app.top_window_().
In the next step I want to double-click an item from a list. But I do not know how.
I tried to use the Inspect.exe. By clicking on "navigate to children" I get the list which has no name. Clicking again on "navigate to children" shows the name of the item I want to click.
So, how can I refer to this item?
I thought about something like dlg.itemname.double_click(button='left')? I can only find examples in which they are pressing menu entries.
From what you're describing I can assume you use Application(backend="uia") (or must use) because Inspect.exe uses UI Automation technology which is supported by UIA backend in pywinauto.
And yes, you're almost right about double click. This should look so:
dlg.itemname.double_click_input(button='left')
# or
dlg.itemname.click_input(button='left', double=True)
How would I know? Detecting items as separate controls are typical for UIA backend.
For default Win32 backend (what you can see in Spy++ tool) a list view or a list box always have virtual items that are accessible by wrapper methods only, not as separate controls.
I want to retrieve information from a tooltip in the system tray programmatically.
The image shows the tooltip.
Now, I found that by using Microsoft's inspect.exe, which is "a Windows-based tool that enables you select any UI element and view the element's accessibility data", that it is in theory possible to retrieve this value programmatically.
Hovering over the the pandora icon in the toolbar shows me the following properties
It shows one property "name" that contains the exact data I need. I'm unsure how to retrieve this value programmatically using the win32api. I have a hwnd to the pandora icon already.
Additionally, a different ui spy tool, UiSpy.exe calls this same property "helpText" (different song name :p)
I tried using getWindowText(pandoraSystrayIconHwnd) but that returns a different text. Does anyone know what this "name" value is, and how I can retrieve it using the win32api? It should be possible because inspect.exe is an external program that can access the data somehow
I'm doing this in Python, as the target application is written in Python already.
These spy apps are probably using Active Accessibility and/or UI Automation.
You can try calling AccessibleObjectFromWindow on the toolbar HWND or AccessibleObjectFromPoint if you care about the mouse position and then call IAccessible::get_accName.
Keep in mind that the classname and window hierarchy of the tray icon toolbar is undocumented.
If you only care about Pandora and not other applications then I would strongly suggest that you look for other alternatives first. Perhaps they have a hidden window with the title etc.
If you don't mind hacks then you could take a look at TraySaver, it is open source and knows the internal format of the data stored for each icon in the tray toolbar. Keep in mind that it is pretty old and might not work on newer versions of Windows. If you go down this path (and I don't recommend it) then you have to remember that you need to support both 32-bit and 64-bit Explorer.
Maybe GUI automation library pywinauto could help you. It uses Win32 API or UI Automation under the hood (by your choice). Core concept is described in the Getting Started Guide.
Method .window_text() returns exactly the same as Name property shows in Inspect.exe.
To interact with tray area icons you can use this example on StackOverflow.
I am currently working on a project using Python and tkinter.
The problem is that I don't know what's the proper way to display multiple windows, or screens, I don't know how to call them. Let me explain better.
When the application starts the login screen appears. After that, if I click register, I want to go to the register screen, but I don't want it to be a separate window (I don't want to have 2 windows displayed at the same time), but rather another window with different content ?!
How should I handle properly this situation? Create a second window using Toplevel and hiding the first (can I do that?) or changing the widgets of the first?
Code I've written so far
You can do that- just call window.withdraw() on the Toplevel you need to hide after creating a new Toplevel. Changing the widgets in the first is also an option- if you like, you could always try a Notebook widget and disable manual flipping or just put each "screen" in a frame and grid_ or pack_forget them to remove them from the window.
I am developing the GUI for my application using wxpython and have most of the features down, except in the main frame/window I want to have a box for choosing a file (in this case, the input will have to be an excel file). Something similar to the standard filebrowser that is accessed whenever you choose "open" from a menu.
Below is an image to show exactly what I want...
You probably want a wx.FileDialog. It provides access to the default file dialog of the OS your app is running in. You can see an example of how it's used in the wxPython demo package. This tutorial also has some screenshots and sample code:
http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/06/26/the-dialogs-of-wxpython-part-1-of-2/
The screenshot you show appears to be an interface to actually open the dialog. You can easily create that using sizers and basic widgets. Then just bind the open button to a handler that will show the dialog.
You might also want to take a look at the FileBrowseButton from wx.lib.filebrowsebutton (also in the demo).
There are a few other related widgets which you might be interested in too: wx.DirDialog, MultiDirDialog or wx.GenericDirDialog.
Assuming you know the basics of wxPython you can use wx.GenericDirCtrl and wx.ListCtrl to make nice browser
I have been using pyqt and qt designer to make a program. I wanted to custom style the top bar which holds the icon and minimize,resize,close buttons. To do this I started with using the Qt.FramelessWindowHint and making custom buttons and such. This has led to many problems with grabbing corners to resize and also snapping (all the built in windows functions). I was trying to sort through this but found many people talking about the problems that I am having. I was trying to go for the google chrome/maya/photoshop look where the top part is completely customized. A friend pointed out that if any of these programs crash, you can notice the windows bar will show through, which means they are not actually removing it but styling above it or something of that sort. How can I go about doing this so all the functionality is still there but it is styled.