On 1/14/06, Jeff Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > from win32com.client import Dispatch > AutoIt = Dispatch("AutoItX3.Control") > ... > > AutoIt.WinActivate(title) > AutoIt.WinWaitActive(title) > AutoIt.Send(keystroke) > ... > > AutoIt.ClipPut("") > AutoIt.Send("{ALTDOWN}EL{ALTUP}") # Edit -> Copy All > text = AutoIt.ClipGet().strip() > if AutoIt.error: > self.log("AutoIt.error: nothing in the clipboard")
I have noticed that AutoIt seems to do everything through the keyboard (at least in all the examples I have looked at). I feel that using the keyboard only loses quite a lot of context information for example AutoIt.Send("{ALTDOWN}EL{ALTUP}") # Edit -> Copy All I find must less expressive (is that the right word?) than: # using notepad as an example (notepad doesn't have a Copy All item) Notepad.MenuSelect("Edit->Select All") Notepad.MenuSelect("Edit->Copy") I can also make it so that an exception is raised one of those menu items are not enabled. Currently I don't have any Clipboard access methods and I should fix that :-) . import clipboard if clipboard.owner != Notepad: raise RuntimeError("seems some other app has used the clipboard in between") # get the data in the default format (is there such a thing as the default format?) data = clipboard.get_data(format) # get it as text text = clipboard.get_text() These are just ideas - seeing as I haven't implemented the clipboard code yet (and don't know enough about the relevant functions to be sure that I am specify the right code layout above). So I guess clipboard access is next on my todo list (after fixing the readme file - which is confusing!) Thanks Mark > > > Would you reccomend that I look at the AutoIt DLL exported functions? > > I guess it provides a set of higher level functions then the windows > > API - which I am currently using. > > I think it would give you some good ideas of the functionality that > you'd want to reproduce in pywinauto. > > -- > Jeff Bauer http://serpentaddiction.blogspot.com > Rubicon, Inc. http://www.rubic.com > _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32