The Windows Application Automating Using Pywinauto Does Not Detect Elements Inside A Treeview, Despite The Elements Have There Own Characteristic

The application I am automating is a win32 supported backend application and using inspect.exe to detect the elements Below is my code trying to click on sales receipt element, on

Solution 1:

First, if you use Inspect.exe you must use Application(backend="uia"). If you want to check the application compatibility with older "win32" backend, you need Spy++ which is included into Visual Studio.

Second control_id is integer ID from Spy++ and it can be inconsistent from run to run. I would recommend printing top level window texts by print([w.window_text() for w in app.windows()]) and use necessary text to identify top level window and dump child identifiers:

app.window(title="Main Window Title").dump_tree() # or use title_re for regular expression
app.window(title="Main Window Title").child_window(title="Sales Receipts", control_type="TreeItem").draw_outline().click_input()
# or get .wrapper_object() and discover all available methods,
# wrapper methods can be chained as above

P.S. If Inspect.exe doesn't show property "NativeWindowHandle", it means the element is not visible to "win32" backend.

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EDIT1:

Try this code for the "win32" TreeView which is not automatically detected as TreeViewWrapper:

from pywinauto import Application
from pywinauto.controls.common_controls import TreeViewWrapper

app = Application(backend="win32").connect(class_name="TFMenuG.UnicodeClass")
dlg = app['TFMenuG.UnicodeClass']
handle = dlg.child_window(class_name='THTreeView.UnicodeClass').wrapper_object().handle
tree_view = TreeViewWrapper(handle)
print(dir(tree_view)) # list all available methods

tree_view.get_item("Sales Receipts").expand()
tree_view.get_item(r"Sales Receipts\Reports").click(where="text")

When you see all available methods, try documented methods for "win32" TreeView: https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/pywinauto.controls.common_controls.html#pywinauto.controls.common_controls.TreeViewWrapper Please note that _treeview_element object returned by get_item(...) represents specific item without window handle, but it's usable.