Hi, The 0.2.1 release of pywinauto is now available.
pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157379 Here is the list of changes: 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 0.3.0 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. If you want to follow this project then please sign up to the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pywinauto-users Thanks Mark -------------------------------------------- Mark Mc Mahon Manchester, NH 03110, USA <P><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto">pywinauto 0.2.1</A> Simple Windows GUI automation with Python. (17-Feb-06) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html