pywinauto find an exact tray item

Question

I'm trying to create an automated GUI test framework for a desktop application and I am using pywinauto for this. My problem is that even using SWAPY and Winspector I still have problems detecting the tray area and finding my app there.

I have tried everything from the current documentation and also tried the Volume example from the web to no success.

from pywinauto import taskbar

sti = taskbar.SystemTrayIcons.WrapperObject()

print 'Clicking ', sti.Button(0).info.text
sti.Button(0).Click()

Technically the only thing i need is finding the exact position of the tray icon and executing a click on it to bring up a menu.

pywinauto has some functions related to the taskbar but i wasn't able to get them to work.

Could anybody give me any ideas on how to do this?

EDIT

I tried your idea Vasily but I am getting this error:

import pywinauto
from pywinauto import taskbar

app = pywinauto.application.Application()
app.start_('C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApp.exe')
w_handle = pywinauto.findwindows.find_windows(title=u'MyApp')[0]
window = app.window_(handle=w_handle)

texts = taskbar.SystemTrayIcons.Texts()
print texts

and the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/nicolae.farcas/Desktop/pywinauto_c1.py", line 9, in <module>
    texts = taskbar.SystemTrayIcons.Texts()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\common_controls.py", line 1932, in Texts
    btn_text = self.GetButton(i).text
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\common_controls.py", line 1914, in GetButton
    button.idCommand)
RuntimeError: GetButtonInfo failed for button with command id 0

I'm using Windows 7 Pro x64 right now but I need this to also run on 8, 8.1 and 10 (I can drop 10 since I imagine support for it is still behind)

Answer 1

If you use pywinauto 0.5.1, please call taskbar.SystemTrayIcons.Texts() and then copy corresponding text to the following call:

taskbar.ClickSystemTrayIcon('button text', exact=True, double=True)

For hidden area use ClickHiddenSystemTrayIcon(...) .

Also please note that popup menu belongs to your application process. So you need to connect to the application and call app.PopupMenu.MenuItem('item name').Click() or ClickInput() .

If it doesn't work, please provide error output and OS version.

EDIT:

(comment about Python 32/64 bit problem)

Ideal way is running taskbar specific code in 64-bit Python and then launching 32-bit Python for separate app specific script. It's not so convenient but should work.