I am able to open Control panel through below code, able to get dump_tree of All Control Panel Items too. My intension is below once control panel. When I tried to click on Network and sharing Center getting below error. Could anyone help on this
My intension: -In the left panel of Network and sharing Center, open Change Advanced sharing setting -Under network discovery, Click on ‘Turn off network discovery” option. -Click “Save Changes” -Go to Tools->Folder Options->View. -Check 'Hide protected operating system files -Close to save
My code:
Application().start(r'control.exe', wait_for_idle=False)
app = Application(backend="uia").connect(title="All Control Panel Items", timeout=10)
main_window = app.window(title="All Control Panel Items")
#main_window.dump_tree()
Network=main_window.child_window(title="Network and Sharing Center", control_type="Hyperlink").select()
Network.select() # it expands the subtree
Error getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\uia_defines.py", line 234, in get_elem_interface
iface = cur_ptrn.QueryInterface(cls_name)
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\comtypes\__init__.py", line 1158, in QueryInterface
self.__com_QueryInterface(byref(iid), byref(p))
ValueError: NULL COM pointer access
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\My_Test\Step_46.py", line 16, in <module>
step_34()
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\My_Test\Step_46.py", line 11, in step_34
Network=main_window.child_window(title="Network and Sharing Center", control_type="Hyperlink").select()
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\uiawrapper.py", line 605, in select
self.iface_selection_item.Select()
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\uiawrapper.py", line 132, in __get__
value = self.fget(obj)
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\uiawrapper.py", line 224, in iface_selection_item
return uia_defs.get_elem_interface(elem, "SelectionItem")
File "C:\Users\sandy\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\uia_defines.py", line 236, in get_elem_interface
raise NoPatternInterfaceError()
pywinauto.uia_defines.NoPatternInterfaceError
NoPatternInterfaceError
means that this action is not implemented on the app side. SelectionItem pattern is usually available for ListItem or TreeItem elements.
For hyperlink use method .invoke()
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