UI-SimpleWrappers UDF

[seadoggie01]

UI Automation is amazing, what bothered me immediately though, was the lack of functions in LarsJ's approach. This is UDF tries to wrap up his approach into functions. LarsJ put a ton of work into making simple examples and I was eventually able to follow along. I highly suggest reading through at least some of those examples before starting here.

When I was writing all of the functions, I started to notice more repetition and it started to remind me of the AutoIt window format of "TITLE:Window Name;CLASS:Window Class". I abstracted the functions one step further by parsing the simpler conditions from text, resulting in two methods to create them. See the examples file for more details.

I've been working on this for a few years and finally decided that it was good enough that it might be helpful for someone. There won't likely be too many more updates from me as I don't use it much anymore, but I'll be happy to accept pull-requests or suggestions  

The UDF is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/seadoggie01/UI-SimpleWrappers

Edited December 2, 2021 by seadoggie01

[TheDcoder]

Great work, I was doing this myself when I was working on an automation project for work, I didn't get very far and basically only did what I needed with no documentation aside from the code itself.

Kudos for doing all the dirty work and making it a neat little package, I am sure a lot of people would find it very useful, maybe @LarsJ and @junkew could drop a mention of your UDF in their respective topics

By the way, you should consider applying a proper license to your code. By default copyright applies to anything you make, especially if it is a major part of something, I'd recommend something like the MIT license which requires credit but aside from that the end-user can do whatever they want.

[junkew]

Nice to see more examples of using UIA.

We should merge it at a certain time 😉 

Some of the stuff you wrote is also in the UIAWrappers and simplespy tried to give simple code but you have to read the code so lack of documentation makes it hard although all is in the examples written around and in the lenghty thread.

I never came further then V0.70 and after that I have seen @LarsJ giving excelent examples and continued with the latest definitions for W8 and W10 with an excellent spying tool that gives bits and pieces of code generation.

As you said UIA automation is amazing but a challenging framework (just as webdriver or playwright or ....)

[mLipok]

Haha.... I and @Danyfirex we did something similar.... WIP.

I post it here tomorrow.

Edited December 3, 2021 by mLipok

[seadoggie01]

14 hours ago, TheDcoder said:

you should consider applying a proper license

Ew, but I completely understand and it's updated 

9 hours ago, junkew said:

We should merge it at a certain time 😉 

I'd be very happy to do that, especially as I was unable to get a few pieces working, like TreeViews and Conditional Arrays. And I'm sure you have some higher level functions that would make this entire thing a lot simpler... I just struggled to get your code working when I was getting started

And I'd be happy to merge with you too, @mLipok. Now I wish I'd posted this all a bit sooner!

[mLipok]

On 12/3/2021 at 9:44 PM, mLipok said:

Haha.... I and @Danyfirex we did something similar.... WIP.

I post it here tomorrow.

As I said I had a need to do some stuff .
It was simple Click Yes/No/Cancel/Ok on NetFrameworks GUI.

Example:
 

Opt("MustDeclareVars", 1)
#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n ; If target application is running as 32 bit code
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_AU3Check=Y
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Au3Check_Parameters=-d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6 -w 7

#include "UIASimple.au3"

_Test()

Func _Test()
    _Log_SetOutputFunction(__UIASimple_ConsoleWrite)
    Local $sTitle = "YOURS WINDOW TITLE TO FIND"
    Local $sText = "YOURS EXACT TEXT TO FIND IN THE WINDOW"
    If _UIASimple_WinExist($sTitle, $sText) Then
        _UIASimple_YesNo($sTitle, $sText, "Yes")
        MsgBox($MB_OK + $MB_TOPMOST + $MB_ICONINFORMATION, "Information #" & @ScriptLineNumber, "Exist" & @CRLF & $sTitle & @CRLF & $sText)
    Else
        MsgBox($MB_OK + $MB_TOPMOST + $MB_ICONINFORMATION, "Information #" & @ScriptLineNumber, "Not Exist" & @CRLF & $sTitle & @CRLF & $sText)
    EndIf

EndFunc   ;==>_Test

As I said I work on this project for my needs together with @Danyfirex so the real author of this UAISimple.au3 UDF is @Danyfirex

btw. it uses my ErrorLog.au3

UIASimple.au3

Edited December 4, 2021 by mLipok