Access value inside Grid of class type "wxWindowNR" using pywinauto

[Amrutha Pobbati]

Is there any way to access values inside a grid table using pywinauto  like cell A2 in above picture

[Steve Barnes]

On 21/12/2017 21:58, Amrutha Pobbati wrote:
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> Is there any way to access values inside a grid table using pywinauto
> like cell A2 in above picture
>

I am sure that it is in a couple of ways:

1. Use the print_control_identifiers() to try to identify it
2. Add to your code, (possibly only in test mode), a menu item "Get
Cell Value" that produces a dialogue prompting for the Cell ID and then
a result dialogue with the fetched value and an OK button - you can then
use the menu to produce the first dialogue, type text to enter A2 and
read the contents of the results dialogue.
3. Use the uia_controls ListViewWrapper to select A2, (I would expect
as cell(1, 0) since it is (row, col) indexes), see
http://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.html?highlight=grid#pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.ListViewWrapper
4. Double Click (Mouse.DoubleClick) on its coordinates and then use
Selected Text
(http://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.html?highlight=grid#pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.ListViewWrapper)
- this is a little fragile as it relies on absolute positioning so a
font change could, potentially, break your tests.

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[Amrutha Pobbati]

When I use print_control_identifiers, it gives the class name of grid as "wxWindowNR" and I am only able to do some basic stuff like drawing outline and Setting focus on A1 cell. Unable to move forward, any way to move focus to its next cell

[Tim Roberts]

Amrutha Pobbati wrote:
>
> When I use print_control_identifiers, it gives the class name of grid
> as "wxWindowNR" and I am only able to do some basic stuff like drawing
> outline and Setting focus on A1 cell. Unable to move forward, any way
> to move focus to its next cell

Not directly, of course.  That requires modifying the state within the
other application.  All you can do is simulate the human: send
right-arrow keystrokes, or whatever key causes the focus to change.

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