RemcoTukker
RemcoTukker
/ pywinauto_firstchild.py
Created
June 18, 2017 19:36
Monkey patch for pywinauto that adds a first_only parameter to the window function for the UIA backend, in order to work around slow FindAll calls (win10 bug?)
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| # Monkey patch for pywinauto that adds a first_only parameter to the window function | |
| # for the UIA backend, in order to work around slow FindAll calls (win10 bug?) | |
| # First copy paste this code on your REPL, then do: | |
| # d1 = pywinauto.Desktop("uia") | |
| # d1.window(first_only=True, title="Calculator").window_text() | |
| # Currently only title is supported, but its easy to implement all the others as well, | |
| # most importantly title_re | |
| def first_child(self): | |
| print("Getting first child") |