pywinauto：如何在不接受SendKeys的ListView上发送SendKeys？

Question

I did select an item from a list (using the code bellow), I'm need now to send a ctrl+E . The problem is that somehow the SendKeys method isn't available , I can't use SendKeys('^e') . (This shortcut will edit the selected item in the ditto app)

from pywinauto.application import Application
from pywinauto import findbestmatch
from pywinauto import keyboard  #not sure if I need to import it


ditto=Application().connect(path='Ditto.exe')

#---- print all available methods of the object
print(dir(ditto.ditto.SysListView321.wrapper_object())) #( the list does not contains 'SendKeys')


#-----Find and select the item (containing 'xxx') in the SysListView321
#The list of texts to search through 
texts = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.texts()[1:] #skip window text itself, use only item texts

# The list of items corresponding (1 to 1) to the list of texts to search through.
items = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.items()   #>>[]    
found_item = findbestmatch.find_best_match('xxx', texts, items, limit_ratio=0.1).Select()

Some Errors:

ditto.ditto.SysListView321.SendKeys('^e')

... WindowSpecification class has no 'SendKeys' method

ditto.ditto.SysListView321.keyboard.SendKeys('^e')

... findbestmatch.MatchError: Could not find 'keyboard' in 'dict_keys(['', 'Header'])'

[EDIT] (More errors)

ditto.ditto.SysListView321.type_keys('^e')

win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(self.handle) pywintypes.error: (0, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'No error message is available')

 keyboard.send_keys('^e')

AttributeError: module 'pywinauto.keyboard' has no attribute 'send_keys'

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(Ps. for beginners: app.Ditto is equivalent to app.window(best_match='Ditto') )

Answer 1

For the specified UI element this method is

# it will activate target window if it's not in focus
ditto.ditto.SysListView321.type_keys('^e')

but

keyboard.SendKeys('^e') # should work also if you don't change active window

It can be used without binding to any specific control.

So you shouldn't try using module name (like keyboard ) as an attribute name of any object. It's Python. Just learn Python basics and you will understand pywinauto better as well.

Answer 2

To complete Vasily's answer. Here is the code needed to edit a single ditto item (it works... most of the time)

from pywinauto import findbestmatch
from pywinauto.application import Application
from pywinauto import remote_memory_block
from pywinauto import keyboard
from pywinauto import timings
import time  #needed for time.sleep(3)


keyboard.SendKeys('^*') # custom shortcut to launch the specific ditto "group" 
time.sleep(2)  # wait 2 sec for the app

ditto=Application().connect(path='Ditto.exe')
time.sleep(0.5) 

##find & select item

#The list of texts to search through: 
texts = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.texts()[1:] #skip window text itself

# The list of items corresponding (1 to 1) to the list of texts to search through.
items = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.items()   #>>[]  

found_item = findbestmatch.find_best_match('test', texts, items, limit_ratio=0.1).Select()

## Extra: open the item in editor
# Bring the window to the foreground first
ditto.ditto.set_keyboard_focus() # (work also with set_focus but it remove the cursor) 

# edit the selected entry (it's a shortcut)
keyboard.SendKeys('^e') 

# Wait (for the windows to load)
time.sleep(1) # 1 sec

# Select all
keyboard.SendKeys('^a')

ditto.Editor.close()