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Controlling the mouse on the desktop with pywinauto

I am attempting to take control of mouse events on the desktop using pywinauto. Specifically, I am looking to make different applications active by sending a mouse click to their windows, and ideally to be able to move windows with well known title bar coordinates around.

I've tried doing app.connect_() calls to both "explorer" and "dwm" but with the exception of a DialogWrapper with the class "Progman" I've had no joy. Searching about with SWAPY has yielded similarly poor results.

I'm not a Windows programmer so I hope I'm missing something fairly obvious here. Any hints would be well received.

Thanks

Solution

  • Below is some code that will click on the desktop at (900, 50) using pywinauto.

    Note that using ClickInput() rather than Click() is important.

    import pywinauto.application

app = pywinauto.application.Application()
comapp = app.connect_(path = "explorer")

for i in comapp.windows_():
    if "Progman" == i.FriendlyClassName():
        i.ClickInput(coords=(900, 50))