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I am trying to play around with uiautomation on windows. As a first test, I wanted to list everything in root to investigate what is worth recursing into. This is my script: import uiautomation as uia ...
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I am targeting a UI element of a Windows desktop application, which has a default action of a double click. I am using .NET framework 4.8, .NET's UIAutomationAPI (WinAppDriver in part, but it needs to ...
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I'm working with the Python UIAutomation for Windows library to create keyboard shortcuts that are missing from Edge. I'd like to be able to trigger a Python script that clicks the "close other ...
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I'm trying to use UIAutomationClient library in .NET to get the element under the mouse cursor using ElementFromPoint(). This works in general, but when I click any items on PowerPoint slides, I can ...
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I want to login to clickonce app programatically. I have tried with following code. This app is stock trading (kabus) app is developed by Japanese au Kabucom securities (https://kabu.com/tool/...
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Problem Description: I am working with the UI Automation framework in C++ to find a particular element in a large UI structure, such as a table (similar to Excel). The target element may be deeply ...
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Whats the best practice or options to speed up the search when you are iterating the entire control list of a window? I have tried creating a property condition to find only the items that are not ...
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I have an Electron app with a native node module written in C++, built with MSVC compiler and linked using CMakeJS. The node module has hook callbacks installed (SetWindowsHookEx) in separate threads ...
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I have an application written in Qt/C++. It has a Window with child windows ( LocalizedControlType: ‘window’). Inspect can see these child windows, but my C# code using UIAutomation cannot. Inspect ...
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I want to use Microsoft UIAutomation, from C#. I collected some finds I made on the internet and ended up with the following code (using the Nuget package "Interop.UIAutomationClient" ...
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I'm currently working on recording data from a desktop application with a relatively static UI structure. The UI includes elements like comboboxes, checkboxes, grids, and buttons. However, when ...
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I want to get the text from the UI element in the bottom left of Windows Media Player. I want to store it in a python variable. How can I programmatically navigate the UI hierarchy to achieve this?
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I call the following API using c# over and over again using a timer. All it does is that it gets the top level windows on my desktop and does nothing else. AutomationElementCollection desktopChildren ...
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I am looking for a method to "click" a toolbar button in another application using the UIAutomation namespace. The other application is not written by me and I don't have access to the ...
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I'm programming a console application in C++ in Visual Studio 2022 and I would like to get the IUIAutomationElement of the "main form" (the big, outer form) of a specific application so that ...
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I am building a flow where I need to use UI clicks using Power Automate Desktop. I want to perform UI clicks on a window where there is a menu items[Basic, Payment, Details]. On starting flow I will ...
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I want to get a group element which is only identifyable by the UIA_AutomationIdPropertyId. I got the AutomationId from Inspect.exe So i wrote following function. IUIAutomationElement* FindBy_UIA_AID(...
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I am working on building some ui automation in c# using UIAutomationClient. It is my understanding that this requires NuGet UIAComWrapper as well. Without UIAComWrapper, the decleration 'using ...
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I am trying to use Microsoft UI Automation Project. What I understand so far after reading through the Functional Tests, that are part of Project, that IUIAutomationElement needs to be converted to ...
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I see that traversing UI Tree of of any Application, that supports UI Automation and has about 1k elements, takes time in excess of 8 seconds at least, using UI Automation COM library. Tree Walk is ...
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I need to get fullDescription property of a UI element using get_CurrentFullDescription method of UIAutomation library of c++ windows. Issue is I have element as IUIAutomationElement instead of ...
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I'm currently developing a screen reader project using C++. The problem starts when i tried to create an IUIAutomation object instance. The vscode and the g++ complains that IUIAutomation is undefined,...
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I have an issue with setting value in Excel with UI Automation. I can get all the cells and their information howver I am unable to set the AutomationElement by using method ValuePattern.SetValue() ...
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I have written the below functions in C# (GetObjectByName and GetAccessibleChildren) by calling oleacc.dll. I am not able to understand when there is child of child items, it is not getting their name,...
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I have successfully used the solution for detecting opening windows described here: UIAutomation FlaUI - Detect opening windows on application level. However, I would also like to also detect closing ...
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Using the Microsoft UI Automation framework, I've setup an example where if I press a hotkey, it registers an event handler for the AutomationElement under the cursor (typically a button). However ...
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I want to access control elements of an application using UI Automation framework. The current codebase is built is a UWP application and I want to extend this feature on it. I wrote a c++ script ...
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I am invoking C++ UIautomation modules in my UWP application. The application is not able to extract control elements since it is not running in an elevated environment. How should I set up the ...
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In my WPF c# program, I'm trying to implement a custom pattern for Windows UIAutomation, which means I need to import something that knows about IUIAutomationPatternHandler, and the only way I can ...
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We are using Microsoft's UIAutomation stuff to implement some automated UI tests, and that's working reasonably well, but now we're running into a limitation that we can't figure out how to get around....
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I'm trying to get all properties of an automation element present at specific point on desktop or which currently have mouse focus using UI Automation C# API. For this, I am using GetPhysicalCursorPos(...
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I am using FlaUI for test automation and it works fine so far. Now I am trying to detect opening windows and while plain UIAutomation offers to register an eventhandler for "AutomationElement....
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Trying to automate IIS (INetMgr) trying to use UIAutomation, i'm fixing mixed results. I'm able to get some if the screen elements good fine, others, even immediate children nodes, can't get either ...
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Using the Windows Automation UI (System.Windows.Automation) in C# I can get the URL from a browser window: return parent?.FindFirst ( TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement....
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I'm trying to create a flow where it checks the status of the checkbox for multiple windows (i.e. Windows app which changes the title dynamically). Currently, "set checkbox state window" in ...
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I am trying to find a better automation tool to perform the websites testing automatically to identify the bugs using various mobile devices and browsers. Tried with various no code automation tools ...
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I'm developing some UI Automation work for a WPF program in VB.Net and have had great success. . . until trying to automate Web Browsers. With Chrome there's --force-renderer-accessibility which was a ...
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We've got a C# GUI application (WPF) that for various reasons uses .NET Core 3.1. In that application we have a custom grid control that we would like to talk to using UIAutomation. Our test harness ...
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MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) allows dynamic annotation wherein certain accessibility properties of controls can be set without having to re-implement MSAA interfaces. Specifically server ...
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I need to cast ControlType object that belongs to the struct AutomationElementInformation from Interop.UIAutomationClient.dll to UIAComWrapper.dll. Both belongs to namespace System.Windows.Automation. ...
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Windows has a UI Automation API, and there is a small tool written by Microsoft that allows one to test and verify that a UI automation server implementation is working correctly. Its UI resembles ...
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i am programming the uiautomation, but some applications that i used to test the uiautomation, the LegacyIAccessible.State contain STATE_SYSTEM_BUSY. I had tried to wait the more than 1hour. It still ...
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My WPF Windows Desktop application is with touch support - so when I tap on TextBox the keyboard pops up. I'm trying to write a test using Windows UIAutomation for my WPF application. I want to "...
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I am using the code similar to this one https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/uiauto-howto-find-ui-elements#finding-an-element-by-name for getting specific element within a window ...
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Trying to follow the example found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/uiauto-howto-find-ui-elements WCHAR window_name[250] = L"tools"; IUIAutomationElement *window ...
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I'm trying to get the info about the current window under the cursor, I got the function working when I manually specify the hwnd, how I could get the hwnd from the current window under the mouse? #...
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we are using .NET-Framework UIAutomation in our WPF application. We want to be notified when user switches to another Microsoft application, e.g. Excel. Here is our code to register the ...
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I have created a simple UI Automation Program that reports if the focus in a program changes. For example if I have multiple files open in VS 2019 and I click on the tabs to view the different files ...
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I am trying to find information on how to code a selectedtext event handler with C# UI automation and notepad. A google search only turned up the following article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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I'm working on a VBA program to help automate a task using UI Automation, but I've run into an issue where the window of the program I'm trying to control does not show up as a child of the Root ...
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