I'm trying to read out the TITLE & URL from the Microsoft EDGE Browser. Doing this with System.Windows.Automation most preferably since the code base already uses this for other problems.
I'm currently this far:
AutomationId "TitleBar"
ClassName "ApplicationFrameWindow"
Name = [string]
=> Reading out this element gives me the TITLE
=> Walking it's children, I find the item "addressEditBox":
AutomationId "addressEditBox"
ClassName "RichEditBox"
Name "Search or enter web address"
=> I always get back the string "Search or enter web address"
=> This is the control where the url is in, though it isn't updated as the user goes to a website, it always returns a fixed string.
In code:
var digger1 = AutomationElement.FromHandle(process.MainWindowHandle).RootElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);
foreach(AutomationElement d1 in digger1 {
if(d1.Current.ClassName.Equals("ApplicationFrameWindow")) {
var digger2 = d1.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);
foreach(AutomationElement d2 in digger2) {
if(d2.Current.ClassName.Equals("Windows.Ui.Core.CoreWindow")) {
var digger3 = d2.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);
foreach(AutomationElement d3 in digger3) {
if(d3.Current.AutomationId.Equals("addressEditBox")) {
var url = d3.Current.Name;
return url;
}
}
}
}
}
}
You're almost there. You just need to get the TextPattern from the addressEditBox element. Here is a full sample Console app that dumps out all currently running Edge's windows on the desktop:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
AutomationElement main = AutomationElement.FromHandle(GetDesktopWindow());
foreach(AutomationElement child in main.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, PropertyCondition.TrueCondition))
{
AutomationElement window = GetEdgeCommandsWindow(child);
if (window == null) // not edge
continue;
Console.WriteLine("title:" + GetEdgeTitle(child));
Console.WriteLine("url:" + GetEdgeUrl(window));
Console.WriteLine();
}
}
public static AutomationElement GetEdgeCommandsWindow(AutomationElement edgeWindow)
{
return edgeWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, new AndCondition(
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Window),
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Microsoft Edge")));
}
public static string GetEdgeUrl(AutomationElement edgeCommandsWindow)
{
var adressEditBox = edgeCommandsWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.AutomationIdProperty, "addressEditBox"));
return ((TextPattern)adressEditBox.GetCurrentPattern(TextPattern.Pattern)).DocumentRange.GetText(int.MaxValue);
}
public static string GetEdgeTitle(AutomationElement edgeWindow)
{
var adressEditBox = edgeWindow.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.AutomationIdProperty, "TitleBar"));
return adressEditBox.Current.Name;
}
[DllImport("user32")]
public static extern IntPtr GetDesktopWindow();
}