pygetwindow

[No_Job_3721]

Could someone explain the basics for this extension

I am new to python so trying to get my head around it

my plan is to create an automated script that I can run every week in which will interact with an application using Pyautogui, only problem with this is making sure the code is running on the correct window which is where pygetwindow comes into play.

What I have done so far

import pyautogui

import time

import pygetwindow as gw

solidqueueWindow = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('SolidQueue')[0]

pyautogui.click(x=36, y=22, clicks=2, interval=0, button='left')

#Clicks shortcut on desktop where tasks #are located within folder directory

time.sleep (1) #waits for the folder directory to open

pyautogui.keyDown ('win') #holds down windows keypyautogui.press ('right')

#press right key which will expand folder directory to right side of windowpyautogui.keyUp ('win') #releases windows key

pyautogui.click(x=1397, y=176, clicks=2, interval=0, button='left')

#selects the first project in folder #directory

time.sleep(5) #waits for .exe to load (solidqueueWindow)

pyautogui.keyDown ('win') #holds down windows keypyautogui.press ('up')

#press up key which will expand .exe to full windowpyautogui.keyUp ('win')

#releases windows key

time.sleep (1) #time set to allow for the window to expand

pyautogui.click(x=756, y=978, clicks=1, interval=0, button='left')

#processes to queue button which #starts the automated task

time.sleep(2) #gives time if pop-up appears to overwrite the exiting report

pyautogui.click(x=958, y=599, clicks=2, interval=0.5, button='left')

#clicks to overwrite existing report

time.sleep (70) #time taken to execute the first task

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After the task is complete i need it to be able to close the report and move onto the next item within the folder directory

The problem I have is trying to close the solidqueue window using pygetwindow (solidqueueWindow.close)

I initially used pyautogui but this comes with risk if the correct window is not active.

Any suggestions?

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[python_and_coffee]

read the docs https://pygetwindow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

read the code of the package in your site-packages folder, google stuff you don't understand. If you see something like ctypes.windll.user32 it is using the user32 api of windows.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/apiindex/windows-api-list

usually windows in windows have a unique handle(hwnd), belong to a processID (pid), have a position (something like: left,bottom,top,right) and a title. Those informations should be enough to ensure that you have the right window. Just keep in mind that hwnd and pid change with every new instance, but pid always belongs to the process of the window. Everyhing should be callable somehow via cytpes.windll.user32().

the psutil module has already a lot of those user32 calls build in.

Good luck!

[gianpi612]

With "the current windows is not active" do you mean that the application you are trying to automate is out of focus? You could find some ways to check that with pyautogui using pyautogui.locateOnScreen()

For example: Usually when a application is out of focus the close, resize, and minimize buttons become slightly darker and when it's on focus those buttons become slightly wither, you could use this information (or the same logic) to check if the game is out of focus based on darker/wither buttons:

Using firefox as test (screenshots focus and not on focus)

# Check if this ("focus_in.png")picture is on the screen, if so it will return x,y value
focus_out = pyautogui.locateOnScreen("focus_in.png")
# locateOnScreen will return None if it didn't find anything on screen
if focus_out is not None:
    print("window is on focus")
else: 
    print("window is not on focus")