[027] Using pyWinAuto to Control a Windows Application (2/3)
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video tutorial by Jeff Winkler
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In this ShowMeDo, Jeff Winkler demonstrates using pyWinAuto (v0.3.4) to control a Windows application. See also the pyWinAuto blog, download page and forum.
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Very helpful and concise - Great work Jeff
Very nice. Short and to the point.
Thanks for the video, gives the basic idea and it looks like thats what I was looking for. We want to build a simple gesture control with a webcam, and were not sure how to handle Windows without much hassle.
Hi,
Very interesting. Can you make this application show results? Like check that form is not displayed any mor eor text is present?
Thanks,
Great demo.
Really nice quick examples! I would have liked more complex examples. ;-)
Thanks for the pyautowin video. Getting past those first few steps is always hard for me. Now I know exactly how to start.
usefull information Jeff. thanks
I learn a lot. thx
Nice Presentation
hey buddy! great work! greetings from argentine
Nice introduction to pyWinAuto
Great demo. Short and sweet.
One comment - it would be nice to know how to figure out the names of the objects to invoke?
Nice vid,please make more
do you have any tutorials
This was invaluable for deciding that pywinauto was the tool to use for automating processing of a small Windows app.
Great intro.
nice tutorial this is more explanatory to me but i wander if u want to check the status of the application suppose u want to know the download manager percentage and other so that you can take necessary action how is that possible.
is there any way to do that or you may please suggest any other application that can do this job.
Just i have started VB for Learning, can porvide me any notes for preperation.
clear, straightforward presentation!
good job.
I liked the tutorial, but wished it went further, with more detail and showed a more in depth python script controlling an application. Actually, went through QAing an application
Well done. Short and to the point.
Thanks.
cool video. It gves a short and good introduction into pyWinAuto
Hi Jeff!
Thanks for creating the video, its much easier to get a feeling when seeing it at work instead of going through all these documentation.
I liked it!
bye
jue
I liked the video. I didn't quite get how the names of the classes are defined. Thanks.
Thanks a lot jeff. Great Help !!
Pywinauto rocks!
Wonderful
your video is better than the documentation
Good work
Thanks Jeff.
good
nice demo. thanks.
Helped me picked up pyWinAuto in a jiffy!
Thanks for the great work :-)
Nice little demo. What would be great is showing out how you figure out what the window names are. Is there a way to list them. Sometimes it's not so intuitive.
Good
Nice starting video. We need more.
Is there a list of objects that are available? Please do that in a video.
Thank you. Great video. I had been stumped on how to manipulate windows objects, you video has given me new hope!
Hi,
the command for showing controls is app.Window.print_control_identifiers() . Java applets, applications that bring their own windowhandling (like opera, or some swing applications) can not be scripted with pywinauto.
The video tutorial is nice. Combination with pyunit would be great.
Very good tutorial . Could you add a command which will show all the controls in the application.
Also will it support controls running inside Java applets ?
This is a very useful video to start using pywinauto and would help in automating a lot of regular windows jobs
Thank you. Excellent!
i didn't know pywinauto and it's incredible how easy it is!
good work!
thanks
Good to know and very good quality of audio and video! This is the sort of screencast i like:
<ul> <li>short</li> <li>effective</li> <li>good audio and video</li> </ul>Please continue to build other casts on Python!
Very good demo. I've heard about pyWinAuto for a long time but didn't try it before. Now I will try it.



