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Unzip the Zip file
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Copy (though you could move also) Python24.dll, dlgchecks2.dll and move
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PythonConfig.py to the folder that contains your executable (Silktest
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directory).
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Modify PythonConfig.py to point to where you have unzipped the other
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files (this folder should contain all the *.py files and the Python24.zip
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file.
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If your machine does not have the appropriate Visual Studio 7 DLLs you
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will also need these in the executable directory. (Included in the Zip
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in RequiredDLLs).
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pywinauto
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(c) Mark Mc Mahon 2006
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Released under the LGPL licence
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There is also a little sample FindDialog.exe application (it does not use
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the DLL - but the underlying Python libraries). What it does is perform most
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of the tests (it doesn't do AllControls or AsianHotkeyTests) and highlights
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controls with errors with a red rectangle.
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What is it
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----------
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pywinauto is a set of python modules to automate the Microsoft Windows GUI.
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At it's simplest it allows you to send mouse and keyboard actions to windows
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dialogs and controls.
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Mostly you need to run this dialog with a regular expresion as the dialog
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title e.g.
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FindDialog "^Explorer"
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#(the ^ is to make sure you don't match the Command prompt window you are in!)
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But you could use other regular expressions also e.g. - the first windows
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with 'Document' in the title,
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".*[D]ocument.*" (again the [ and ] are to make sure that the current
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command prompt window is not found!)
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Note that this file needs Python24.dll - so if you have moved it out - this
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program will not work!.
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Installation
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Unzip the pywinauto zip file to a folder.
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Install the following Python packages
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ctypes http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
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Sendkeys http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/index.html
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(Optional) PIL http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm
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(Optional) elementtree http://effbot.org/downloads/
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To check you have it installed correctly
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run Python
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>>> import application
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>>> app = application.Application()._start("notepad")
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>>> app.notepad.TypeKeys("%FX")
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Where to start
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Look at the examples provided in test_application.py
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There are examples in there to work with Notepad and MSPaint.
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How does it work
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A lot is done through attribute access (__getattr__) for each class. For example
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when you get the attribute of an Application or Dialog object it looks for a
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dialog or control (respectively).
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myapp.Notepad # looks for a Window/Dialog of your app that has a title 'similar'
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# to "Notepad"
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myapp.PageSetup.OK # looks first for a dialog with a title like "PageSetup"
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# then it looks for a control on that dialog with a title
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# like "OK"
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This attribute resolution is delayed (currently a hard coded amount of time) until
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it succeeds. So for example if you Select a menu option and then look for the
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resulting dialog e.g.
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app.Notepad.MenuSelect("File->SaveAs")
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app.SaveAs.ComboBox5.Select("UTF-8")
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app.SaveAs.edit1.SetText("Example-utf8.txt")
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app.SaveAs.Save.Click()
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At the 2nd line the SaveAs dialog might not be open by the time this line is
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executed. So what happens is that we wait until we have a control to resolve
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before resolving the dialog. At that point if we can't find a SaveAs dialog with
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a ComboBox5 control then we wait a very short period of time and try again,
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this is repeated up to a maximum time (currently 1 second!)
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This avoid the user having to use time.sleep or a "WaitForDialog" function.
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Some similar tools for comparison
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---------------------------------
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* Python tools
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- Watsup
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- winGuiAuto
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* Other scripting language tools
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- Perl Win32::GuiTest
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- Ruby GuiTest
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- others?
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* Other free tools
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- AutoIt
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- See collection at:
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* Commercial tools
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- WinRunner
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- SilkTest
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- Visual Test
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- Many Others
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