pywinauto 0.3.0

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

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