========== Change Log ========== 0.3.8 Various minor changes and fixes ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10-December-2008 * Ensured that return value from ComboBoxWrapper.SelectedIndices is always a tuple (there was a bug where it would sometimes be a ctypes array) * Changed default for finding windows to find disabled windows. (note this may impact scripts that relied on the previous setting!) * Added a control_id parameter to find_windows which allows finding windows based off of their control id's * Added some baic support for Pager and Progress controls (no tests yet) * Added some more VB 'edit' window classes * Added some more VB 'listbox' window classes * Added some more VB 'button' window classes * Added a FriendlyClassName method to MenuItem * Fixed toolbar button pressing - This required for HwndWrapper.NotifyParent() to be updated (to accept a new ID parameter) * Fixed a bug wherea listview without a column control would make pywinauto fail to capture the dialog. * Split up the functions for button truncation data * Commented out code to get a new font if the font could not be recovered * Moved code to get the control font from Truncation test to handleprops * Added a function to get the string representation of the bug. (need to refactor PrintBugs at some point). * Fixed a variable name (from fname -> font_attrib as fname was not a defined variable!) * Forced some return values from MissingExtraString test to be Unicode * Fixed the MiscValues test (converted to Unicode and removed some extraneous characters) * Updated the path for all unittests * made two unit tests sligthly more robust and less dependent on computer/app settings 0.3.7 Merge of Wait changes and various bug fixes/improvements ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10-April-2007 * Added Timings.WaitUntil() and Timings.WaitUntilPasses() which handle the various wait until something in the code. Also refactored existing waits to use these two methods. * Fixed a major Handle leak in RemoteMemorBlock class (which is used extensively for 'Common' controls. I was using OpenHandle to open the process handle, but was not calling CloseHandle() for each corresponding OpenHandle(). * Added an active_() method to Application class to return the active window of the application. * Added an 'active' option to WindowSpecification.Wait() and WaitNot(). * Some cleanup of the clipboard module. GetFormatName() was improved and GetData() made a little more robust. * Added an option to findwindows.find_windows() to find only active windows (e.g. active_only = True). Default is False. * Fixed a bug in the timings.Timings class - timing values are Now accessed through the class (Timings) and not through the intance (self). * Updated ElementTree import in XMLHelpers so that it would work on Python 2.5 (where elementtree is a standard module) as well as other versions where ElementTree is a separate module. * Enhanced Item selection for ListViews, TreeViews - it is now possible to pass strings and they will be searched for. More documentation is required though. * Greatly enhanced Toolbar button clicking, selection, etc. Though more documentation is required. * Added option to ClickInput() to allow mouse wheel movements to be made. * menuwrapper.Menu.GetProperties() now returns a dict like all other GetProperties() methods. This dict for now only has one key 'MenuItems' which contains the list of menuitems (which had been the previous return value). 0.3.6b Changes not documented in 0.3.6 history ------------------------------------------------------------------ 31-July-2006 * Fixed a bug in how findbestmatch.FindBestMatches was working. It would match against text when it should not! * Updated how timings.Timings.Slow() worked, if any time setting was less then .2 after 'slowing' then set it to .2 0.3.6 Scrolling and Treview Item Clicking added ------------------------------------------------------------------ 28-July-2006 * Added parameter to ``_treeview_item.Rectangle()`` to have an option to get the Text rectangle of the item. And defaulted to this. * Added ``_treeview_item.Click()`` method to make it easy to click on tree view items. * Fixed a bug in ``TreeView.GetItem()`` that was expanding items when it shouldn't. * Added ``HwndWrapper.Scroll()`` method to allow scrolling. This is a very minimal implementation - and if the scrollbars are implemented as separate controls (rather then a property of a control - this will probably not work for you!). It works for Notepad and Paint - that is all I have tried so far. * Added a call to ``HwndWrapper.SetFocus()`` in ``_perform_click_input()`` so that calls to ``HwndWrapper.ClickInput()`` will make sure to click on the correct window. 0.3.5 Moved to Metaclass control wrapping ------------------------------------------------------------------ 24-May-2006 * Moved to a metaclass implementation of control finding. This removes some cyclic importing that had to be worked around and other then metaclass magic makes the code a bit simpler. * Some of the sample files would not run - so I updated them so they would (Thanks to Stefaan Himpe for pointing this out) * Disabled saving application data (it was still being saved in Application.RecordMatch() even if the rest of the application data code is disabled. This was causing what appeared to be a memory leak where pywinauto would keep grabbing more and more memory (especially for controls that contain a lot of information). Thanks to Frank Martinez for leading me to this). * Added ListViewWrapper.GetItemRect() to enable retrieving the rectangle for a particular item in the listview. * Removed references to _ctrl() method within pywinauto as it was raising a DeprecationWarning internally even if the user was not using it. 0.3.4 Fixed issue with latest ctypes, speed gains, other changes ------------------------------------------------------------------ 25-Apr-2006 * The latest version of ctypes (0.9.9.6) removed the code generator I was using some generated code in win32functions.py (stdcall). I was not using those functions so I just commented them out. * Started the process of renaming methods of the ``Application`` and ``WindowSpecification`` classes. I will be converting names to ``UppercaseNames_()``. The trailing ``_`` is to disambiguate the method names from potential Window titles. * Updated how print_control_identifiers works so that it now always prints the disambiguated control name. (even for single controls) * Added __hash__ to HwndWrapper so that controls could be dictionary keys. * Caching various information at various points. For example I cache how well two pieces of text match. For short scripts this has little impact - but for larger script it could well have a major impact. Also caching information for controls that cannot change e.g. TopLeveParent, Parent, etc 0.3.3 Added some methods, and fixed some small bugs ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19-Apr-2006 * Added a wait for the control to be active and configurable sleeps after 'modifying' actions (e.g. Select, Deselect, etc) * Fixed Timings.Slow() and Timings.Fast() - they could in certain circumstances do the opposite! If you had already set a timing slower or faster then they would set it then they would blindly ignore that and set their own times. I added functionality that they will take either the slowest or fastest of the new/current setting rather then blindly setting to the new value. * Fixed some hidden bugs with HwndWrapper.CloseClick() * Fixed a bug in setup.py that would raise an error when no argument was specified * Added an argument to HwndWrapper.SendMessageTimeout so that the wait options could be passed in. * Added HwndWrapper.Close(), Maximize(), Minimize(), Restore() and GetShowState(). * Commented out all deprecated methods (will be removed completely in some future release). * Added Application.kill_() method - which closes all windows and kills the application. If the application is asking if you want to save your changes - you will not be able to click yes or no and the application will be killed anyway!. 0.3.2 Fixed setup.py and some typos ------------------------------------------------------------------ 31-Mar-2006 * Fixed the spelling of Stefaan Himpe's name * Fixed setup.py which was working for creating a distribution but not for installing it (again thanks to Stefaan for pointing it out!) 0.3.1 Performance tune-ups ------------------------------------------------------------------ 30-Mar-2006 * Change calculation of distance in findbestmatch.GetNonTextControlName() so that it does not need to square or get the square root to find the real distance - as we only need to compare values - not have the actual distance. (Thanks to Stefaan Himpe) * Compiled regular expression patterns before doing the match to avoid compiling the regular expression for window that is being tested (Thanks to Stefaan Himpe) * Made it easier to add your own control tests by adding a file extra_tests.py which needs to export a ModifyRegisteredTests() method. Also cleaned up the code a little. * Updated notepad_fast.py to make it easier to profile (adde a method) * Changed WrapHandle to use a cache for classes it has matched - this is to avoid having to match against all classes constantly. * Changed default timeout in SendMessageTimeout to .001 seconds from .4 seconds this results in a significant speedup. Will need to make this value modifiable via the timing module/routine. * WaitNot was raising an error if the control was not found - it should have returned (i.e. success - control is not in any particular state because it does not exist!). * Added ListViewWrapper.Deselect() per Chistophe Keller's suggestion. While I was at it I added a check on the item value passed in and added a call to WaitGuiIdle(self) so that the control has a chance to process the message. * Changed doc templates and moved dependencies into pywinauto subversion to ensure that all files were availabe at www.openqa.org and that they are not broken when viewed there. * Moved all timing information into the timings.Timings class. There are some simple methods for changing the timings. 0.3.0 Added Application data - now useful for localization testing ------------------------------------------------------------------ 20-Mar-2006 * Added automatic Application data collection which can be used when running the same test on a different spoken language version. Support is still preliminary and is expected to change. Please treat as early Alpha. If you have a different language version of Windows then you can try this out by running the notepad_fast.py example with the langauge argument e.g. :: examples\notepad_fast.py language This will load the application data from the supplied file notepad_fast.pkl and use it for finding the right menu items and controls to select. * Test implementation to make it easier to start using an application. Previously you needed to write code like :: app = Application().connect_(title = 'Find') app.Find.Close.Click() app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit") 1st change was to implement static methods ``start()`` and ``connect()``. These methods return a new Application instance so the above code becomes:: app = Application.connect(title = 'Find') app.Find.Close.Click() app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit") I also wanted to make it easier to start working with a simple application - that may or may not have only one dialog. To make this situation easier I made ``window_()`` not throw if the application has not been ``start()ed`` or ``connect()ed`` first. This leads to simpler code like:: app = Application() app.Find.Close.Click() app.NotePad.MenuSelect("File->Exit") What happens here is that when you execute any of Application.window_(), Application.__getattr__() or Application.__getitem__() when the application hasn't been connected or started. It looks for the window that best matches your specification and connects the application to that process. This is extra functionality - existing connect_() and start_() methods still exist * Fixed HwndWrapper.SetFocus() so that it would work even if the window was not in the foreground. (it now makes the window foreground as well as giving it focus). This overcomes a restriction in Windows where you can only change the foreground window if you own the foreground window. * Changed some 2.4'isms that an anonymous commenter left on my blog :-) with these changes pywinauto should run on Python 2.3 (though I haven't done extensive testing). * Commented out controls.common_controls.TabControlWrapper.GetTabState() and TabStates() as these did not seem to be returning valid values anyway. * Fixed documentation issues were parts of the documentation were not getting generated to the HTML files. * Fixed issue where MenuSelect would sometimes not work as expected. Some Menu actions require that the window that owns the menu be active. Added a call to SetFocus() before selecting a menu item to ensure that the window was active. * Fixed Bug 1452832 where clipboard was not closed in clipboard.GetData() * Added more unit tests now up to 248 from 207 0.2.5 More refactoring, more tests ------------------------------------------------ 07-Mar-2006 * Added wrapper classes for Menus and MenuItems this enabled cleaner interaction with Menu's. It also gives more functionality - you can now programmatically Click() on menus, and query if a menu item is checked or not. * Added application.WindowSpecification.Wait() and WaitNot() methods. These methods allow you to wait for a control to exist, be visible, be enabled, be ready (both enabled and visible!) or to wait for the control to not be in any of these states. WaitReady(), WaitNotEnabled(), WaitNotVisible() now use these methods. I was able to also add the missing methods WaitNotReady(), WaitEnabled(), WaitVisible(), WaitExists(), WaitnotExists(). Please use Wait() and WaitNot() as I have Deprecated these Wait* methods. * Slightly modified timeout waits for control resolution so that a timed function more accurately follows the timeout value specified. * Added application.Application.start() and connect() static methods. These methods are factory methods in that they will return an initialized Application instance. They work exactly the same as start_() and connect() as they are implemented in terms of those. from pywinauto.application import Application notepad = Application.start("notepad") same_notepad = Application.connect(path = "notepad") * Updated the examples to follow changes to the code - and to make them a little more robust. * Added a new Controls Overview document page which lists all the actions on all controls. * Added more unit tests now up to 207 from 134 (added 68 tests) 0.2.1 Small Release number - big changes ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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. 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ 12-Jan-2006 * Fixed some minor bugs discovered after release 0.1.0 Initial Release ------------------------------------------------ 6-Jan-2006