[python-win32] COM: control menu bar

[Emre CETIN]

Hello James. Thank you for your advice. I ran Spy++. At the logging options I selected the menu bar portion of the other program. I selected WM_COMMAND only and then chose  all "Additional Windows" (except for the All Windows in System). Then I clicked one of the menu items I wanted: Edit | Select All. It provided me with the following line: WM_COMMAND wNotifyCode:0 (sent from a menu) wID:57642.
How can I use this class ID (57642) in Python to act as if it was clicked/pressed?

E m r e
 

    On Saturday, September 29, 2018, 1:55:37 AM GMT+3, James Scholes <james at jls-radio.com> wrote:  
 
 Emre CETIN via python-win32 wrote:
> from there is was a matter of controlling the keyboard with the 
> SendKeys() command.

This seems pretty fragile at best.  If the menu bar is a standard 
Windows control, the window will respond to WM_COMMAND messages and 
carry out the appropriate menu command without you having to send 
keyboard keys.  You'll need to use a tool like Spy++ to log the window 
messages while you manually activate the menu commands, in order to 
determine the correct IDs for the items you need.

> 
> *E m r e*
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 5:40:49 PM GMT+3, Emre CETIN via 
> python-win32 <python-win32 at python.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Simon. Thank you for your response. I had read of pywinauto but 
> hadn't used it before. After your advise i have been working on it for 
> hours. But unfortunately i can not get the menu items. I analyzed it via 
> a tool named Swapy and it shows the MenuItems field [] as an empty list. 
> I'm still stuck :/
> 
> *E m r e*
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 1:33:01 AM GMT+3, Simon McConnell 
> <simonmcconnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I haven't used it myself but I believe this is what pywinauto does: 
> http://pywinauto.github.io
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 02:04 Emre CETIN via python-win32 
> <python-win32 at python.org <mailto:python-win32 at python.org>> wrote:
> 
>    Hi, I am writing a script to automate a program named Golden
>    Software Surfer. I am using import win32com.client in Python during
>    this process. At one point though i can not get past a certain step
>    of my code. The reason is because Surfer's automation utility
>    (Scipter) does not allow that part to be controlled. I could get
>    past this step if i could control the main program's (Surfer) Menu
>    bar. This step just has a couple of processes that all are within
>    the Menu bar itself. For example here is what I want to automate:
>    ******
>    1) Arrange | Edit Group
>    2) Edit | Select All
>    3) Geoprocessing | Change Boundaries | Polyline to Polygon
>    4) Geoprocessing | edit Boundaries | Combine Islands / Lakes
>    5) Arrange | Stop Editting Group
>    ******
>    All of these steps aren't changeable via its scripting libraries
>    within Scripter. But they are all under the main programs Menu Bar.
>    Is there a way for me to automate the menubar via win32com? If so
>    could you please help me understand how?
> 
>    Basically i am trying to learn how to control the menu bar of Surfer
>    from Python.
> 
>    Thank you all in advance.
> 
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James Scholes
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