What's wrong with IronPython (UIAutomation)

[Jozef-3]

Hi,

I'm using UIAutomation framework with IronPython to test our application.

For WPF dialogs it works perfectly. But I run into trouble when try to use it for some older dialogs.

The problem:  With IronPython I'm not able to get proper control type. Any controls appears as ControlType.Pane 

Simple example: (with windows calculator)

--------------------------------------- IP Code ------------------------------------------------------

import clr

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationClient')

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationTypes')

from System.Windows.Automation import *

_rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement

if __name__ == '__main__':

nameCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator")

typeCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window)

calcCondition = AndCondition(nameCondition, typeCondition)

appCalc = _rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition)

if appCalc is not None:

   

isFocusable = appCalc.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.IsKeyboardFocusableProperty, True)

if isFocusable:

#appCalc.SetFocus()   #calling this raise: System.InvalidOperationException

pass

contList = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition)

   

for elm in contList:

progName = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName

print progName

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

above code produce following output:

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
.

.

.
 

   

similar C# code works as expected

------------------------------------------ C# Code ---------------------------------------------------

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Automation;

using Automation = System.Windows.Automation;

namespace UIAutTest

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

AutomationElement rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement;

Automation.Condition nameCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator");

Automation.Condition controlCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window);

Automation.Condition calcCondition = new AndCondition(nameCondition, controlCondition);

AutomationElement appCalc = rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition);

if (appCalc != null)

{

appCalc.SetFocus();

AutomationElementCollection allCont = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition);

foreach (AutomationElement elm in allCont)

{

string contProgNam = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName;

Console.WriteLine(contProgNam);

}

}

}

}

}

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C# code produce this output:

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Edit
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Button
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Group
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Button
.

.

Does anybody know why ControlType property retrieved by IP code is different then ControlType retrieved by C# ?

Others element properties retrieved by IP code seems to by OK.

Info:

Windows Vista Business, SP2

IronPython 2.6 (2.6.10920.0) on .NET 2.0.50727.4200

Thanks,
Jozef

PS:  Duane Kaufman, send similar question :  http://lists.ironpython.com/htdig.cgi/users-ironpython.com/2009-June/010693.html.

But, no one answer him.  

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[Shri Borde]

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In the past, there had been issues with UIAutomation as mentioned in http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2008/03/24/ironpython-cannot-call-automationelement-fromhandle.aspx. This could be related. You could try it on Win7 to see if its fixed.

 

You can also try the techniques mentioned in http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2008/03/24/what-if-a-c-snippet-does-not-work-when-transliterated-to-ironpython.aspx to narrow down the problem.

 

From: users-bounces@... [mailto:users-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Jozef
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:20 AM
To: users@...
Subject: [IronPython] What's wrong with IronPython (UIAutomation)

 

Hi,

 

I'm using UIAutomation framework with IronPython to test our application.

For WPF dialogs it works perfectly. But I run into trouble when try to use it for some older dialogs.

 

The problem:  With IronPython I'm not able to get proper control type. Any controls appears as ControlType.Pane 

 

Simple example: (with windows calculator)

--------------------------------------- IP Code ------------------------------------------------------

import clr

 

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationClient')

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationTypes')

 

from System.Windows.Automation import *

 

_rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement

 

if __name__ == '__main__':

 

nameCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator")

typeCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window)

calcCondition = AndCondition(nameCondition, typeCondition)

appCalc = _rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition)

 

if appCalc is not None:

   

isFocusable = appCalc.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.IsKeyboardFocusableProperty, True)

 

if isFocusable:

#appCalc.SetFocus()   #calling this raise: System.InvalidOperationException

pass

 

contList = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition)

   

for elm in contList:

progName = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName

print progName

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

above code produce following output:

 

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
.

.

.
 

   

similar C# code works as expected

------------------------------------------ C# Code ---------------------------------------------------

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Automation;

using Automation = System.Windows.Automation;

 

namespace UIAutTest

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

AutomationElement rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement;

 

Automation.Condition nameCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator");

Automation.Condition controlCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window);

Automation.Condition calcCondition = new AndCondition(nameCondition, controlCondition);

AutomationElement appCalc = rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition);

 

 

if (appCalc != null)

{

appCalc.SetFocus();

 

AutomationElementCollection allCont = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition);

foreach (AutomationElement elm in allCont)

{

string contProgNam = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName;

Console.WriteLine(contProgNam);

}

}

 

}

}

}

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C# code produce this output:

 

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Edit
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Button
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Group
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Button
.

.

 

 

Does anybody know why ControlType property retrieved by IP code is different then ControlType retrieved by C# ?

Others element properties retrieved by IP code seems to by OK.

 

Info:

Windows Vista Business, SP2

IronPython 2.6 (2.6.10920.0) on .NET 2.0.50727.4200

 

Thanks,
Jozef

 

PS:  Duane Kaufman, send similar question :  http://lists.ironpython.com/htdig.cgi/users-ironpython.com/2009-June/010693.html.

But, no one answer him.  

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[Jozef-3]

Thanks for your response.

Solution to my problem is to first instantiate AutomationElement from dll, not from IronPython.

Then all subsequent AutomationElement retrieved from IronPython looks ok.

Jozef

2009/11/6 Shri Borde <Shri.Borde@...>

In the past, there had been issues with UIAutomation as mentioned in http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2008/03/24/ironpython-cannot-call-automationelement-fromhandle.aspx. This could be related. You could try it on Win7 to see if its fixed.

 

You can also try the techniques mentioned in http://blogs.msdn.com/shrib/archive/2008/03/24/what-if-a-c-snippet-does-not-work-when-transliterated-to-ironpython.aspx to narrow down the problem.

 

From: users-bounces@... [mailto:users-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Jozef
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:20 AM
To: users@...
Subject: [IronPython] What's wrong with IronPython (UIAutomation)

 

Hi,

 

I'm using UIAutomation framework with IronPython to test our application.

For WPF dialogs it works perfectly. But I run into trouble when try to use it for some older dialogs.

 

The problem:  With IronPython I'm not able to get proper control type. Any controls appears as ControlType.Pane 

 

Simple example: (with windows calculator)

--------------------------------------- IP Code ------------------------------------------------------

import clr

 

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationClient')

clr.AddReference('UIAutomationTypes')

 

from System.Windows.Automation import *

 

_rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement

 

if __name__ == '__main__':

 

nameCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator")

typeCondition = PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window)

calcCondition = AndCondition(nameCondition, typeCondition)

appCalc = _rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition)

 

if appCalc is not None:

   

isFocusable = appCalc.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.IsKeyboardFocusableProperty, True)

 

if isFocusable:

#appCalc.SetFocus()   #calling this raise: System.InvalidOperationException

pass

 

contList = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition)

   

for elm in contList:

progName = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName

print progName

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

above code produce following output:

 

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
ControlType.Pane
.

.

.
 

   

similar C# code works as expected

------------------------------------------ C# Code ---------------------------------------------------

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Automation;

using Automation = System.Windows.Automation;

 

namespace UIAutTest

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

AutomationElement rootElement = AutomationElement.RootElement;

 

Automation.Condition nameCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Calculator");

Automation.Condition controlCondition = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window);

Automation.Condition calcCondition = new AndCondition(nameCondition, controlCondition);

AutomationElement appCalc = rootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, calcCondition);

 

 

if (appCalc != null)

{

appCalc.SetFocus();

 

AutomationElementCollection allCont = appCalc.FindAll(TreeScope.Subtree, Condition.TrueCondition);

foreach (AutomationElement elm in allCont)

{

string contProgNam = elm.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName;

Console.WriteLine(contProgNam);

}

}

 

}

}

}

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C# code produce this output:

 

ControlType.Window
ControlType.Edit
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.CheckBox
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Button
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Group
ControlType.Group
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.RadioButton
ControlType.Button
.

.

 

 

Does anybody know why ControlType property retrieved by IP code is different then ControlType retrieved by C# ?

Others element properties retrieved by IP code seems to by OK.

 

Info:

Windows Vista Business, SP2

IronPython 2.6 (2.6.10920.0) on .NET 2.0.50727.4200

 

Thanks,
Jozef

 

PS:  Duane Kaufman, send similar question :  http://lists.ironpython.com/htdig.cgi/users-ironpython.com/2009-June/010693.html.

But, no one answer him.  

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