UI Automation AddAutomationEventHandler delay
Hi there,I started to use the C++ API for UI Automation a couple of weeks ago. So I'm still quite a newbie. I was able to achieve some things, that I couldn't do by using the managed C# version, so...
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Hello,I am making a custom startmenu for some of our users that have to be locked down,I can attach the installed application no problem, the issue comes when a network application needs to be addedfor...
View ArticleIUIAutomation not working - Windows.Automation does - Get selected text
I converted my System.Windows.Automation code to the newer, faster IUIAutomation framework. I want to get the current selected text in any application (other app needs to support Automation of course)....
View ArticleThe findAll method in UIAutomation is very slow
This is my code: window.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Edit));It took three minutes to execute the command......I want to get the...
View ArticleWhich support team should I call at Microsoft if I need to ask questions...
I have some questions regarding UIA and they are not being answered any where including these forums and StackOverflow. I wanted to reach out to Microsoft to help resolve the situation I am in...
View ArticleInspect.exe is unable to see IE11 Windows Security dialog username and...
Working with SSO companies Imprivata, Caradigm/Sentillion. Their products are unable to sign into the IE11 Windows security dialogs. Worked with older versions of Windows. Works with Edge. Strange...
View ArticleUIAutomation method ElementFromPoint() retrieves an incorrect element from...
We are developing a C# Windows Forms App and use UI Automation to record user activity. Our app declares its DPI-awareness as Per-monitor, so the system doesn't lie to it with coordinate...
View ArticleAccessing "Readonly" property of UI control using...
Hello,I am working on UI automation project using .NET's UI automation libraries.I want to check if textbox is readonly or not using AutomationElement::AutomationElementInformation structure.However,...
View ArticleUnable to access XAML elements in ComboBox header through UIAutomation
I have a ComboBox with a header <ComboBox x:Name="Box"><ComboBox.Header><StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"><TextBlock Text="This is a combobox" x:Name="Block"...
View ArticleUIAutomation tree is broken in terms of parent-child relationship
The scenario is following:- inspect.exe finds focused element E- get parent P of element E- E is not a child of PTree walker methods GetParent, GetFirstChild, GetNextSibling are used to traverse the...
View ArticleWindows Desktop Automation [UIA]
Hi,I need to automate my .Net Windows desktop application GUI.Microsoft provides the 1) [UIAutomationClient.dll + UIAutomationTypes.dll] 2) UIAComWrapper.dll 3) UIAutomationCore.dllFrom the above which...
View ArticleSubmit for MS Store
I have been a tech developer for Assistive Technology since 1983. Apple recently started including some similar products to mine in the Apple Store. I would love for MS to offer some of my...
View ArticleHaving trouble getting IUI_Automation Events to work
I followed Guy Barker's recommendation to build an interop wrapper around the UIAutomation.dll here and built my wrapper, added it to a new .NET Console project, and I'm just trying to get an event to...
View ArticleClick menu item using .NET UI Automation
Hello,I am working on a Automation project using .NET UI Automation APIs. I want to click a menu item on a Window, say w.The only information that I have is handle of w. Now, I have to expand a Menu...
View ArticleHow Can I Force A TextPattern.TextChanged event to fire in standard WinForms...
I'm trying to build an automation program for an application I don't often have unlimited access to, so to work around this I'm mimicing the UI of this legacy application in a WinForms app. There are...
View ArticleWindows 10 - AutomationElement FindFirst FindAll - "Element not Available" -...
On a windows 10 machine, I am seeing some problem where AutomationElement.FindFirst or AutomationElement.FindAll will generate the error "Element Not Available". (This never occurs in Windows 7)On some...
View ArticleQuestion about UI Automation and Windows Service
Hi, I have a cmd line .NET app that uses UI Automation. I then wrapped it as a service using the TopShelf utility: https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf -- this simply makes it a bit easier to wrap the...
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Access "Windows Security" dialog from my MFC app
I am struggle to hit OK button from a "Windows Security" dialog, from my MFC app. Here is this dialog in Win7:and here is the same dialog in Win10:after a friend advice me to get informations regarding...
View ArticleHow to get RDP session to auto-logoff when User Logs Out of Application.
Have seen lots of talk around time out variables for RDP Session, but nothing on how to auto-logout RDP session when User Logs Out of an Application.Use Case: Created "controlled access" to Application...
View Article[UWP] UI Accessibility Checker Tool throwing "MissingItemInTabOrder" error in...
Hi All,I am getting "MissingItemInTabOrder" error in ListView while running UI Accessibility Checker Tool by enabling UIAVerifications.CheckTabbingUIA rule checkbox.Kindly any one having the solution...
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