Reuse app variable for one process owned different top level windows.
One app may be used for all windows owned by one process. For instance:

from pywinauto.application import Application

app = Application().Start(cmd_line=u'"C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe" ')
notepad = app.Notepad
notepad.Wait('ready')
menu_item = notepad.MenuItem(u'&Help->&About Notepad')
menu_item.Click()
window = app.Dialog
window.Wait('ready')
button = window.OK
button.Click()

app.Kill_()

Now the same actions code looks:

from pywinauto.application import Application

app = Application().Start(cmd_line=u'"C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe" ')
notepad = app.Notepad
notepad.Wait('ready')
menu_item = notepad.MenuItem(u'&Help->&About Notepad')
menu_item.Click()

app2 = Application().Start(cmd_line=u'"C:\\Windows\\system32\\notepad.exe" ')
window = app2.Dialog
window.Wait('ready')
button = window.OK
button.Click()
button.Click()

app2.Kill_()
app.Kill_()

Restarting the same application is probably not the thing you expect.

1. Select static object.
2. Start observation in a separate thread.
3. SWAPYs main window is minimized.

Observation (window?) should show log of object changes, which have been made 
with it by user.

It can be useful to investigate an object behavior while normal work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Dec 2011 at 8:17

pywinauto support attribute/item access only for app, top_level_window. Filter children for such non top level window controls in SWAPY. Expect all the children are accessible from the top level window - app.dlg.child_ctrl.Method()

"CmnCtrl1.exe"

from pywinauto.application import Application

app_pwa_window1 = Application().Connect(title=u'Common Controls Sample', class_name='#32770')
pwa_window1 = app_pwa_window1.Dialog

treeview1 = pwa_window1.TreeView  # direct access works fine
print treeview1.handle in [i.handle for i in pwa_window1.Children()]
>>> True

object1 = pwa_window1['#32770']  # intermediate control
print treeview1.handle in [i.handle for i in object1.Children()]
>>> True

treeview1 = object1.TreeView  # access via an intermediate control does not

pwa_tree_item1 = treeview1.GetItem(['Birds'])
pwa_tree_item1.Expand()

Properties viewer

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 May 2011 at 4:32

- SWAPY v. 0.4.1
- the app v. 2.2.9.6

Swapy shows the next access names:
['Static9',...]

But right is: 'Static6'

Note: print_control_identifiers() shows 'Static9' too.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 May 2012 at 8:31

Prevent actions on non visible controls

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2011 at 6:01

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.


Please provide any additional information below.

Sometimes child windows or other windows pop up as a result of automated 
actions on a given window. Is there a way to refresh the main display to 
capture these newly created windows?

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Mar 2012 at 3:32

• Blocking: #23

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


Please use labels and text to provide additional information.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Dec 2011 at 8:45

• Blocked on: #10

Add tab control in the properties viewer place.

Name | description
------------------
XXX  | str(help(XXX))
...  | ...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 May 2012 at 12:20

• Blocking: #19, #19

pywinauto/pywinauto#100 caused a problem to click an item.
Without a title it becomes very small.
The same problem in Menu and others.

The idea is to remove all unneeded from code.

1. If we use only one application, just call it app and app2, app3 for others.
2. The same for others.
3. Remove pwa_ prefix. Now it used from a proxy class name if the shortest access name is not valid Python variable.

TabControl's item has no Text property, but has one in the object tree.

User http://habrahabr.ru/users/EvilsInterrupt/ noticed SWAPY icorrectly detects text menu in Total Commander x64 v.8.51a

v. 0.4.2

If a window title has special symbols, find_windows do not work.


w_handle = pywinauto.findwindows.find_windows(title_re=u'Title(smth)', 
class_name='rctrl_renwnd32')[0]

Just change title_re= to title=

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 31 Jul 2012 at 7:07

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run TS Player (VLC torrent stream)
2. Run SWAPY 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
SWAPY UI get comletely stuck. It unstuck just after process 'tsengine.exe' was 
killed.


Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
SWAPY v. 0.4.0-2
Windows XP 32bit SP3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 14 Jul 2012 at 2:37

v.0.3.2

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Started not in the middle of the screen

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Dec 2011 at 9:37

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run SWAPY

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
No items in object list

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
swapy 0.4; Windows 7/7x64

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Mar 2012 at 2:00

Attachments:

• w7.png

Properties/children may change after an action. For instance: a tree items still disabled after Expand on the top element has been performed.

Add RightClick menu with actions:
1. Copy All
2. Copy option name
3. Copy option value

*copy to clipboard.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Nov 2011 at 8:46

If control has no name (.Texts()==[]) use the longest string from [access 
names].

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2012 at 12:32

• Blocking: #14, #14, #19

It can be quite convenient to send keys to controls. Even for not text controls (to access the hotkey).
New extended action may be added to the Actions menu which open a sub window with editbox to make possible type commands.
Will post screenshots with the proposals in the near future that we can discuss.

A lot of bugs/tasks depend on problem when the code generator counters is reset after a pywinauto object has been re-wrapped by SWAPY's proxy.
Although the code manger is a single tone object, but the code generator behavior is not. The counters are stored exactly with code generator behavior in a SWAPY wrapper.

Version 0.5

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2012 at 12:34

• Blocked on: #7, #13, #18, #24

When clicking on a top level window of an application SWAPY might suggest more menu items:

"Application.Start"
"Application.Connect"
----- (separator)
"Click"
... (other wrapper's methods)

It's not so hard to retrieve a process info using a top level window handle. Expected code for Start method:

app = Application.Start("user_software.exe") # even command line params could be retrieved

Preferable methods for Connect are listed by priority:

app = Application.Connect(path="user_software.exe")
app = Application.Connect(title="Software Title")
app = Application.Connect(pid=5349)

We can let user choose
which kind of Connect to use. :)

Like so:

"Application.Start"
"Application.Connect (by exe name)"
"Application.Connect (by title)"
"Application.Connect (by process id)"
----- (separator)
"Click"
... (other wrapper's methods)

I didn't say about launcher->worker case detection, but we may think about that as well.

Object browser - 1/2 (left)
Editor - 1/4 (right, top)
Properties - 1/4 (right, bottom)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Dec 2011 at 8:50

• Blocking: #10, #10

@airelil reported the Property viewer stops to refresh after an unsuccessful action(on a process with admin rights).

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Refresh object browser
2. Select Swapy window
3. Simply close Swapy window

What do you see instead?
Console window is not closed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 Nov 2011 at 8:59

Add icons for all object types in the Objects browser.
For: Window, Static, Edit, etc.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Dec 2011 at 9:03

• Blocking: #19, #19

Version 0.4

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Dec 2011 at 8:45

• Blocking: #11
• Blocked on: #12

Add postpone refresh. For finding RightClick-Menu handles.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 18 Oct 2011 at 2:25

• Blocking: #19

It would be helpful if there was a possibility to edit commands in the Editor window. Quite often I want to change or delete the generated commands. Maybe if not full edition but at least a kind of "undo" to remove last command and put another instead.

Add a new action to save window or control hierarchy into xml

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Feb 2013 at 8:45

I could not select a menu item.
See the screenshot.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Aug 2012 at 8:32

Attachments:

• menu.jpg

see screenshot

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Dec 2011 at 3:45

• Blocked on: #18

Attachments:

• noname.JPG

List control has only Select action, it cause multi selection.
Add Deselect action

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Jan 2012 at 11:33

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a WPF application 
2. Run Swapy 
3. WPF app is not listed

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
APplication should be listed

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4.3, Win 7, x86

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2012 at 1:33

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.In my application, I don't see the menu items such as File--saveas or file 
-->Exit. 
2.I am not able to access toolstrip items also
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should be able to access menu items and 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Windows 7
Please provide any additional information below.
Attached screensot

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 16 May 2013 at 4:20

Attachments:

• menustrip_items.jpg
• Toolstrip_items.jpg

test edit

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 6 Sep 2012 at 10:17

Attachments:

• _mainframe.py.patch

If in some reason actions for concrete control are disabled (grayed), make 
possibility of force action.

Ctrl + grayed action

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 9 Oct 2012 at 7:07

It's reproduced on .\apps\MFC_samples\CmnCtrl1.exe. Just open "CToolBarCtrl" tab and run SWAPY.

Find "New" toolbar button and select Click method. The following code is generated:

import pywinauto

pwa_app = pywinauto.application.Application()
ctrl.Button(0).Click()

ctrl is not assigned here. Using ctrl.Button("New").Click() is also better than magic index.
Text property is absent at the toolbar button description pane.

Sort items in Object browser

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Oct 2011 at 6:00

I can see `???` only.
Maybe it also cannot handle utf-8 character?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Jan 2015 at 7:00

Can execute action from object browser.
E.g. click on button, choose selection, etc.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 11 Apr 2011 at 2:00

• Blocking: #1

Features:
1. Objects Browser
2. Code editor
3. Browser --> Editor

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Apr 2011 at 6:37

• Blocked on: #2

Sort and order items in Properties viewer.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Oct 2011 at 6:01

pywinauto can deal with a ListBox - pywinauto.controls.win32_controls.ListBoxWrapper,
but SWAPY see only texts of the ListBox items.
Regular wrapper should be added.

Do not confuse with the pywinauto.controls.common_controls.ListViewWrapper.

When I click to copy a long value, I get it cut.

Example text:
Access names : ['Static21', 
u'\u041b\u043e\u043a\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 
\u0437\u043e\u043d\u044b - \u044d\u0442\u043e 
\u0430\u0434\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0430, 
\u0438\u0441\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0437\u0443\u0435\u043c\u044b\u0435 
\u0442\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e \u0432 \u0432\u0430\u0448\u0435\u0439 
\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0439 
\u0441\u0435\u0442\u0438, \u043e\u043d\u0438 \u0431\u0443\u0434\u0443\u0442 
\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0430\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0441 \u04

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 14 Jun 2012 at 1:51

Window browser fails refreshing if you select window which no longer exists.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 30 Aug 2012 at 9:41

try:
        obj_actions = dir(pywin_obj.WrapperObject())
    except:
        obj_actions = dir(pywin_obj)

Object type handling needed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 17 Oct 2011 at 4:24

Create and update the FAQ page task.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Mar 2012 at 7:13

• Blocked on: #22