pywinauto/doc_src/HISTORY.TXT

0.2.1 Small Release number - big changes
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17-Feb-2006

    * Quick release to get many changes out there - but this release has 
      been less tested then I would like for a .3 release.
    
    * Allow access to non text controls using the closest Text control.
      This closest text control will normally be the static/label associated
      with the control. For example in Notepad, Format->Font dialog, the 1st
      combobox can be refered to as "FontComboBox" rather than "ComboBox1"
      
    * Added a new control wrapper - ``PopupMenuWrapper`` for context menu's
      You can now work easily with context menu's
      e.g. ::
      
         app.Notepad.Edit.RightClick()
         # need to use MenuClick rather then MenuSelect
         app.PopupMenu.MenuClick("Select All") 
         app.Notepad.Edit.RightClick()
         app.PopupMenu.MenuClick("Copy") 
      
      I could think of merging the ``RightClick()`` and ``MenuSelect()`` into one method 
      ``ContextMenuSelect()`` if that makes sense to most people.
    
    * Added Support for Up-Down controls
    
    * Not all top level windows now have a FriendlyClassName of "Dialog".
      I changed this because it made it hard to get windows of a particular
      class. For example the main Notepad window has a class name of "Notepad".
      
      This was primarily implemented due to work I did getting the System Tray.
      
    * Renamed ``StatusBarWrapper.PartWidths()`` to ``PartRightEdges()`` as this 
      is more correct for what it returns.
      
    * Changed HwndWrapper.Text() and SetText() to WindowText() and 
      SetWindowText() respectively to try and make it clearer that it is 
      the text returned by GetWindowText and not the text that is visible 
      on the control. This change also suggested that EditWrapper.SetText()
      be changed to SetEditText() (though this is not a hard requirement
      EditWrapper.SetText() still exists - but may be deprecated.
      
    * Added ClickInput, DoubleClickInput, RightClickInput, PressMouseInput
      ReleaseMouseInput to HwndWrapper - these use SendInput rather then
      WM_LBUTTONDOWN, WM_RBUTTONUP, etc used by Click, DoubleClick etc.
      
      I also added a MenuClick method that allows you to click on menu
      items. This means you can now 'physically' drop menus down. 
      
    * Some further working with tooltips that need to be cleaned up.

    * Fixed a bug where coordinates passed to any of the Click operations had
      the X and Y coordinates swapped.

    * Added new MenuItem and Menu classes that are to the most part hidden
      but you can get a menu item by doing ::
      
        app.Notepad.MenuItem("View")
	    app.Notepad.MenuItem("View->Status Bar")
	 
	  MenuItems have various actions so for example you can use 
	  ``MenuItem.IsChecked()`` to check if the menu item is checked.
	  Among other methods there are ``Click()`` and ``Enabled()``.

    * Modified the 'best match' algorithm for finding controls. 
      It now searches a couple of times, and tries to find the best
      fit for the text passed to it. The idea here is to make it more
      "Select what I want - not that other thing that looks a bit like
      what I want!". It is possible this change could mean you need to 
      use new identifiers in scripts - but in general very little modification
      should be necessary.
      
      There was also a change to the algorithm that looked for the closest
      text control. It missed some obvious controls in the previous
      implementation. It also had a bug for controls above the control
      rather than to the left.
      
    * Added a new example scripts SaveFromInternetExplorer.py and 
      SaveFromFirefox.py which show automating downloading of a page
      from either of these browsers.

    * Added yet more unit tests, there are now a total of 134 tests.


0.2.0 Significant refactoring
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06-Feb-2006

    * Changed how windows are searched for (from application)
      This chage should not be a significant change for users
    
    * Started adding unit tests (and the have already uncovered bugs 
      that been fixed). They also point to areas of missing functionality
      that will be addded with future updates
    
    * Changed from property access to Control attributes to function access
      If your code was accessing properties of controls then this might be a
      significant change! The main reasons for doing this were due to the
      inheritability of properties (or lack there-of!) and the additional 
      scafolding that was required to define them all.
      
    * Updated the ``DialogWrapper.MenuSelect()`` method to notify the parent 
      that it needs to initialize the menu's before it retrieves the items
      
    * Added functionality to associate 'non-text' controls with the 'text' 
      control closest to them. This allows controls to be referenced by::
      
        app.dlg.<Nearby_text><Window_class>
      
      e.g. to reference the "Footer" edit control in the Page Setup dialog 
      you could use::
       
        app.PageSetup.FooterEdit
      
    * Added a MoveWindow method to HwndWrapper
    
    * Did some more cleanup (fixing pylint warnings) but still not finished

    * Added some better support for .NET controls (not to be considered final)
    
    


0.1.3 Many changes, few visible
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15-Jan-2006

    * Wrote doc strings for all modules, classes and functions
    * Ran pychecker and pylint and fixed some errors/warning
    * changed ::
       
          _connect, _start, _window, _control, _write 
          
      respectively to ::
       
          connect_, start_, window_, connect_, write_ 
          
      If you forget to change ``_window``, ``_connect`` and ``_start`` then you will probably get the following error. ::
      
         TypeError: '_DynamicAttributes' object is not callable
         
    * pywinauto is now a package name - you need to import it or its modules
    * Changes to the code to deal with pywinauto package name
    * Fixed searching for windows if a Parent is passed in
    * Added Index to retrieved MenuItem dictionary
    * Added a check to ensure that a windows Handle is a valid window
    * Refactored some of the methods in common_controls
    * Refactored how FriendlyClassName is discovered (and still not really happy!
 
  
  
0.1.2 Add Readme and rollup various changes
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15-Jan-2006

    * Updated Readme (original readme was incorrect)
    * Added clipboard module
    * Fixed DrawOutline part of tests.__init__.print_bugs
    * Added a NotifyParent to HwndWrapper
    * Make sure that HwndWrapper.ref is initialized to None
    * Refactored some methods of ComboBox and ListBox
    * Updated Combo/ListBox selection methods
    * Removed hardcoded paths from test_application.py
    * Added section to save the document as UTF-8 in MinimalNotepadTest
    * Fixed EscapeSpecials and UnEscapeSpecials in XMLHelpers
    * Made sure that overly large bitmaps do not break XML writing
 

0.1.1 Minor bug fix release
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12-Jan-2006

    * Fixed some minor bugs discovered after release

0.1.0 Initial Release
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6-Jan-2006