#Haru Automation# Windows UI Automation using mostly UIA

##Automate Notepad?

app = haru.App()
app.start('notepad.exe')
notepad = app.Notepad
notepad.edit.type("hello")
notepad.close()
notepad.wait_for(object_type='dialog', caption='Notepad')
notepad.Notepad.DontSave.click()

##Installation##

• Download 32-bit version of Python 3.7.4 or newer (tested using Miniconda 3 [Python 3.7.4, 32-bit])
  • Python 3.8.1 has a bug that prevents using comtypes, see
    • Cannot Import pywinauto (comtypes passes a union by value)
    • bpo-16575: Disabled checks for union types being passed by value
    • Recommend to use Python 3.7.4
• Create conda environment, open Andaconda prompt and do:

    conda create --name haruenv pip python=3.7.4

  To activate/deactivate do:

    conda activate haruenv
    conda deactivate

• Install comtypes
  • Other Windows OS versions

      pip install comtypes
      pip install six

  • Windows 10 64-bit build 10074 (due to bug, see http://bugs.python.org/issue24127)

      python -m pip install comtypes

##Related projects##

• http://code.google.com/p/swapy/
• http://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22198792/create-a-poker-table-scanner