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#18 Clipboard is blocked by pywinauto

Hans Maurer — Mon, 30 May 2022 10:39:11 -0000

See enclosed attachment. (test script)

Clipboard is blocked by pywinauto

Hans Maurer — Mon, 30 May 2022 10:38:21 -0000

Using windows 10 and python 3.10.4 the clipboard from pyqt5 (5.15) is not possible if pywinauto is imported. Setting any data to clipboard is not possible. See enclosed example

Error importing application from pywinauto on Windows 10 x64

Artur Pogosyan — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:03:26 -0000

If i importing like these:
from pywinauto import application
i've got following error:
PS Z:> python.exe D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 1, in <module>
from pywinauto import application
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 1, in <module>
from pywinauto import application
ImportError: cannot import name 'application' from 'pywinauto' (D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py)</module></module>

if so:
from pywinauto.application import Application
then this:
PS Z:> python.exe D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 2, in <module>
from pywinauto.application import Application
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 2, in <module>
from pywinauto.application import Application
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywinauto.application'; 'pywinauto' is not a package</module></module>

and if importing so:
import pywinauto
then i got this:
PS Z:> python.exe D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 4, in <module>
import pywinauto
File "D:\temp\policies\pywinauto.py", line 10, in <module>
pywinauto.application.Application().start(f"mmc.exe {mmc_loc}")
AttributeError: module 'pywinauto' has no attribute 'application'</module></module>

my code:

import time
import pywinauto

mmc_loc = "mmc_file_location"
managed_group_path = "managed group\path"
groups = ["test"]

pywinauto.application.Application().start(f"mmc.exe {mmc_loc}")
time.sleep(10)
app = pywinauto.application.Application().connect(path="mmc.exe")
tree = app.mmc_main_frame.tree_view
for group in groups:
    folder = tree.get_item(f"{managed_group_path}{group}")
    folder.click()
    items = app.mmc_main_frame.list_view.items()
    for i in range(0, len(items), 2):
        print(items[i].text())

Contents of site-packages folder:

PS Z:> ls C:\python3_32\Lib\site-packages\

Каталог: C:\python3_32\Lib\site-packages

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 adodbapi
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 comtypes
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 comtypes-1.1.7-py3.7.egg-info
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 isapi
d----- 03.09.2019 10:22 pip
d----- 03.09.2019 10:22 pip-19.2.3.dist-info
d----- 03.09.2019 10:18 pkg_resources
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pythonwin
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pywin32-224.dist-info
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pywin32_system32
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pywinauto
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pywinauto-0.6.7.dist-info
d----- 03.09.2019 10:18 setuptools
d----- 03.09.2019 10:18 setuptools-40.8.0.dist-info
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 win32
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 win32com
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 win32comext
d----- 03.09.2019 10:23 pycache
-a---- 03.09.2019 10:18 126 easy_install.py
-a---- 03.09.2019 10:22 138 pythoncom.py
-a---- 03.09.2019 10:22 2650084 PyWin32.chm
-a---- 03.09.2019 10:22 395 pywin32.pth
-a---- 03.09.2019 10:22 5 pywin32.version.txt
-a---- 08.07.2019 19:24 121 README.txt

Windows 10 x64
Python version 3.7.4 x86

In app.A.ChildWindow(parent = handle) parent is overwritten

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:13:50 -0000

For example I have the code:

app = application.Application()
app.start_(r"mmc.exe ServerManager.msc", timeout=10)

time.sleep(10)

app.connect_(title = "Server Manager")

a = app.ServerManager.ChildWindow(title_re = ".+Multiple CAs can be.+")

#Now I need to find particular child of `a`
b = app.ServerManager.ChildWindow(parent = a.Parent().Parent().handle, title = "Add Role Services")

In this case parent handle that I'm passing will be overwritten with the app's handle.

To fix this just modify the following code:
# application.py:

line 560: ctrl_criteria["parent"] = dialog.handle

560: try:
561: ctrl_criteria["parent"]
562: except KeyError:
563: ctrl_criteria["parent"] = dialog.handle

This way, if the parent is passed, it will not be overwritten

TypeKeys bug with DOS/CMD window

Michael Hipp — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:22:57 -0000

There seems to be a strange bug when sending keystrokes to DOS programs (e.g. edit.com) running in a CMD.EXE window. It will only send "special" keys and keys with a modifer. For example {ENTER} works fine as does {F2} but the alphabetic and numeric keys don't work unless shift (+) is applied. Everything works fine when sending keys to a GUI app like Notepad.

this: win.TypeKeys("+MI+C+H") # results in 'MCH'
I tried importing directly:
from pywinauto.SendKeysCtypes import SendKeys
SendKeys("+MI+C+H") # This still gives 'MCH'

The latest version of SendKeys v0.3 does not have this bug. I downloaded the Python 2.7 version here: https://bitbucket.org/orutherfurd/sendkeys/issue/5/windows-installer-for-python-27 (see last comment by Charles Duffy).

pip installs old version

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:32:55 -0000

when I run "pip install pywinauto" it installs version 0.1.3

assertion error

Raymond Tay — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:38:41 -0000

When attempting to install the s/w via IronPython interpreters 2.6.1 for .NET 2.0/.NET 4.0 i saw the following error

C:\Users\tayr\Downloads\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto-0.4.0>"c:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.6 for .NET 2.0\ipy.exe" ./setup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./setup.py", line 50, in <module>
File "C:\Users\tayr\Downloads\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto\__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
File "C:\Users\tayr\Downloads\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto\findwindows.py", line 32, in <module>
File "C:\Users\tayr\Downloads\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto-0.4.0\pywinauto\win32structures.py", line 401, in <module>
AssertionError: 62

This doesn't occur when i used the Active Python 2.6.6 or the official interpter from python.org

Probably due to different VS compilers used to generate these different variants of the Python interpreter

a patch for empty clipboard

tocer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:28:02 -0000

for version 0.3.9

Misspelling in application.py line 929

Anonymous — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:56:32 -0000

Found another bug in the same file (application.py):

false instead of False is used there.

File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\application.py",
line 929, in start_
WaitUntil(timeout, retry_interval, AppIdle)
File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\timings.py", line
274, in WaitUntil
func_val = func(*args)
File "C:\Program Files\Python2.4\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\application.py",
line 923, in AppIdle
return false
NameError: global name 'false' is not defined

Misspelling in application.py line 929

Anonymous — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:12:31 -0000

Found another bug in the same file (application.py):

false instead of False is used there.