Can I use PyWinAuto to automate WPF desktop application?

Question

I am working on automating my desktop application.

It is completely designed using WPF controls.

Can you please tell me if I can use PyWinAuto to automate this application ?

I would like to know how to fetch the unique control ids of these wpf objects to be able to control them using automation. Is there a spy tool to fetch these id's ? I already tried SWAPY 64 bit. But it displays control id as '0' and the highlight is on the main application window and I am unable to highlight the smaller wpf controls available inside that window.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

pywinauto 0.6.0+ is automatically tested specifically on WPF application. So it can automate WPF controls, but SWAPY doesn't support this new feature unfortunately. So you need to learn pywinauto in more details. Getting Started Guide will help you to find Inspect.exe (modern spy tool) which is included into Windows SDK. It also explains a lot about pywinauto fundamentals: backends, window specifications, attribute resolution magic and more.