Windows dialog box removal

[SectorUnknown]

That works great.

Thanks!!!

In article <mailman.1064497835.7752.python-list at python.org>, 
dave at pythonapocrypha.com says...
> On Thursday 25 September 2003 06:18 am, SectorUnknown wrote:
> > I've written a Python script that runs a MS Windows program using popen.
> > However, at the end of the Windows program, a dialog box appears and
> > asks for the user to click on OK.
> >
> > Is there a way to have Python set focus on the dialog box and click OK
> > so my script can continue?
> >
> > Does anyone have an example?
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if there's an easier or more correct way to do this, 
> but if you can reliably know the title of the window then the code below 
> should work (assuming you have ctypes installed):
> 
> from ctypes import *
> user32 = windll.user32
> 
> EnumWindowsProc = WINFUNCTYPE(c_int, c_int, c_int)
> 
> def GetHandles(title, parent=None):
>     'Returns handles to windows with matching titles'
>     hwnds = []
>     def EnumCB(hwnd, lparam, match=title.lower(), hwnds=hwnds):
>         title = c_buffer(' ' * 256)
>         user32.GetWindowTextA(hwnd, title, 255)
>         if title.value.lower() == match:
>             hwnds.append(hwnd)
> 
>     if parent is not None:
>         user32.EnumChildWindows(parent, EnumWindowsProc(EnumCB), 0)
>     else:
>         user32.EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc(EnumCB), 0)
>     return hwnds
> 
> Here's an example of calling it to click the Ok button on any window that has 
> the title "Downloads properties" (most likely there are 0 or 1 such windows):
> 
> for handle in GetHandles('Downloads properties'):
>     for childHandle in GetHandles('ok', handle):
>         user32.SendMessageA(childHandle, 0x00F5, 0, 0) # 0x00F5 = BM_CLICK
> 
> -Dave
> 
>