Questions tagged [uia]
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UI Automation's AutomationId inconsistency on different versions of windows
I'm working on automating an application using UI Automation framework (.net 4.6.1).
When inspecting the application using Visual UI Automation Verify i'm able to see the value of AutomationId properties.
I have written a small automation script in…

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what is ami did not recognise the action type 'uiasendkeys'
when I'm trying to import a bprelease file... then blueprism is throwing an error saying:
> "An error occurred while attempting to import the release: AMI did
> not recognise the action type 'UIASendKeys'"...
Can anyone please resolve this issue

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pywinauto for uia application, for minimized window showing element not found error
When we connect to a UIA backend window using pywinauto, getting element not found error.
Below is the code I have tried. When executing the uia backend application, and if the application is minimized I am getting the below element notfound error.…

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Which support team in microsoft should I reach out for Windows Automation API issues?
I tried Accessibility, but they were not able to help on the API. I am a developer and I have development related question about Windows Automation API.

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Firefox fails tree traversal, further investigation shows messed tree hierarchy
I am using UIA to traverse through Firefox element tree. I am creating paths between multiple nodes in the tree. This however is running into problems because there seems to be mix up of elements in the tree. That is there are duplicate runtime ids…

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Finding Missing Control Identifiers in Microsoft Minesweeper using Pywinauto
I'm trying to develop a solver for good ole' Minesweeper, but running into a hitch.
Environment: I setup Python 3.4.6 (x64) and am using Pywinauto 0.61 and the old Windows 7 Minesweeper from Winaero's "Windows 7 games for Windows 10".
Problem: I…
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Capture pictures of icons, tooltips and cursors from another application
My goal is to write an application that will be able to capture from another Microsoft application (e.g. MS Excel):
The picture of the application window - one picture per application window if there are more windows.
The picture of all icons when…
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UIA calls with plain JavaScript, don't know how to access DOM-Tree
I'm currently trying to automate an iOs App, which has an SFSafariViewController in it, where I would like to click on a textfield, which has an ID in HTML and also has an AccessibilityIdentifier from the App.
My question now is how to write the…

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How to reference variables for the co-ordinates used by the dragFromToForDuration method
I have a simple routine to delete a number of records from a screen by swiping left on them. It only deletes records in a certain state, i.e. ready to submit. The top record might not necessarily be in that state, so I cannot use a fixed y…

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UI Automation on session 0
I'm trying to use UIA to automate an application. During the testing phase I run the application on remote server using psexec and starting it in session 0 since this is the only guaranteed available session.
When doing so, I'm unable to automate…

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Can we "click" on edit boxes using Microsoft UIAutomation libraries
In my application, we have a webbrowserpageviewer control. when a webpage is opened, user needs to click on some of the editboxes present on the webpage. We are trying to simulate this behvior using UI Automation libraries. Am a bit new to this but…

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