To extract the title name using pywinauto

Question

I recently started using pywinauto. I am trying to fetch the title of the pop-up window.

FYI Application background is UIA.

In the above picture, the title of the pop-up window is "Open Media". Is there any way to extract/read this title using pywinauto.

So I am curious that is it possible to find the title of the pop-up window using pywinauto.

Answer 1

You can have the title of the popup window with the following Pywinauto code:

desktop = pywinauto.Desktop(backend="uia")
window = desktop.windows(title="VLC media player", control_type="Window")[0]
wrapper_list = window.descendants(control_type="Window")
for wrapper in wrapper_list:
    print(wrapper.window_text())

The result is: 'Open Media'

You can find it with an inspect tool like "Inspect.exe". You can easily find it with "Pywinauto recorder"

With "Pywinauto recorder" if you hover the pop-up window with the mouse cursor and press CTRL+SHIFT+F it copies the following Python code into the clipboard:

with UIPath(u"VLC media player||Window"):
    wrapper = find(u"Open Media||Window")

Then if you add the next line, you will have the same result as with the pure Pywinauto code above.

print(wrapper.window_text())

Finally you have:

with UIPath(u"VLC media player||Window"):
    window = find()
wrapper_list = window.descendants(control_type="Window")
for wrapper in wrapper_list:
    print(wrapper.window_text())