Selecting windows drop down menu items

Question

I know win32api is able to FindWindow(None, "Title of some window)

But how do I find and select drop down menu items?

Reading the module chm, I can't find any straight foward way of doing this.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

But how do I find and select drop down menu items?

You need a Window handle. You can find it with Spy++ . You can also enumerate Windows with EnumWindows function . Look for the one with a COMBOBOX windows class. See About Window Classes for more details.

You then use the SetSel() method on the combo box, which wraps EM_SETSEL .