I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than open a program.
I have commented out the portion #app.AM.MenuSelect("File->Open Database") When it is uncommented, the program fails. However, when I tinker with this MenuSelect() for, say, Notepad, this presents no problem and behaves as expected. For example, the following works with notepad: app.Notepad.MenuSelect("Help->Help Topics") At the risk of sounding too silly, how do I know what to place after app.??.MenuSelect? I've tried this with a few programs and the name I use in place of ?? Doesn't seem to work. import time import sys try: from pywinauto import application except ImportError: import os.path pywinauto_path = os.path.abspath(__file__) pywinauto_path = os.path.split(os.path.split(pywinauto_path)[0])[0] import sys sys.path.append(pywinauto_path) from pywinauto import application def AM(): app = application.Application() try: app.start_( # connect_(path = ur"C:\Program Files\American Institutes for Research\AMBeta\AM.exe") except application.ProcessNotFoundError: print "You must first start Windows Media "\ "Player before running this script" sys.exit() #app.AM.MenuSelect("File->Open Database") def Main(): start = time.time() AM() if __name__ == "__main__": Main() > -----Original Message----- > From: simon.brunn...@gmail.com > [mailto:simon.brunn...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Simon Brunning > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:02 AM > To: Doran, Harold > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Use python to execute a windows program > > 2009/9/11 Doran, Harold <hdo...@air.org>: > > The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their > machine and > > proceeds as follows: > > > > 1) Open windows program > > 2) Click file -> open which opens a dialog box > > 3) Locate the file (which is a text file) click on it and let the > > program run. > > It might very well be possible, depending upon how the > program you want to automate has been written. > > First, make sure, absolutely sure, that's there's no "proper" > automation option available - a command line version, COM > automation, that kind of thing. These approaches are very > much easier than GUI automation. > > If none of these options are available, > <http://pywinauto.openqa.org/> is probably what you need. > > -- > Cheers, > Simon B. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list