A way to select a button in a window

[bew78]

Hi all,
First of all, thanks for all, the app is so great !!

I'm looking for a way to select a button on a window, like in pywinauto :

In the animated gif, wait for the command "app.AboutNotepad.OK.Click()"

I want to do that in EventGhost, is that possible ?

Also, is it possible to force an app not to close, explain :
I want when my computer shutdown to click on a button on a window which is open at this time...

Or : can we delay the extinction of computer with a

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eg.plugins.EventGhost.Wait(3.0)

without Windows (the OS) closes any windows (the apps) ?

Thanks in advance !
Bew

[krambriw]

Yes, it is simple. I did like this:

1) Downloaded pywinauto http://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/down ... -0.4.2.zip and opened it
2) Copied the pywinauto folder including subs to 'EventGhost/lib26/site-packages' folder
3) Restarted EG
4) Created a python script similar to the example in the animated gif and it worked fine right away controlling Notepad

It's a good finding and could be very useful for automation of applications where public api's are not available but you still like to control them

Your second question I have not spend any time on, maybe can be solved using pywinauto

Best regards, Walter

[bew78]

Hi thanks for your response, I tried in the python shell but I get this :

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>>> from pywinauto import application
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pywinauto
>>>

I've put the pywinauto :

folder in :

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C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\lib26\site-packages\

folder and i got this error...

[jonib]

You need to only put "pywinauto" in site-packages and not the whole "pywinauto-0.4.2". I tried and it works. Seems to be a cool library, I need to play with it later.

jonib

[bew78]

oh yesss, it works, thanks