Get the Inspect.exe tool from Microsoft discussed in the below video
🔥Master UIAutomation : Learn how to interact with controls like a pro💪
UIA can be used to automate browser actions and Accessibility Insights for Windows can provide more information about UIA automation.
- 00:00 👍 Alan and Isaias discussed how to use UIA for browser automation and Accessibility Insights for Windows for more info.
- Isaias walked Alan through using UIA for browser automation, and they discussed how to get patterns and automate Chrome.
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- Accessibility Insights for Windows can provide more information than UIA Viewer about objects and their patterns.
- 03:25 🔎 Interact with controls using value, grid item, expand/collapse, scroll item, and selection patterns.
- Using the value, grid item, expand/collapse, scroll item, and selection patterns, you can interact with controls to get information, expand/collapse, and select items.
- The value pattern can be used to set the value of an element, but not to open or close a drop down.
- 05:54 🔧 Set the value pattern to change the name of a folder automatically using UIA.
- Set the value pattern to change the name of a folder automatically.
- Using UIA, you must first find the item by its automation ID and then get the current pattern using the value you want.
- 08:44 🔎 Find the element, get/set the value, and click the button to automate the process.
- If the element is not found, loop until it is found or throw an error after 100 attempts.
- Find the object with the automation ID, get the pattern value, and either get the value into a variable or set the value.
- Find the button with the automation ID and use the click command to click it.
- 11:56 🔎 Use WinExist to get a handle to a window, then use UIA’s element from handle to connect to the Chrome element for browser automation.
- You can attach to a running instance of a browser to directly link to a particular tab.
- WinExist checks if a window with a given title exists and returns an ID number if it does.
- Using Winxist to get a handle to a window, UIA’s element from handle can be used to connect to the Chrome element for browser automation.
- The tool does not provide the handle, which changes every time, so it must be done manually.
- 17:24 🔎 Create a tool to automate Chrome actions using the UIA object and value pattern for the element’s automation ID.
- The script gets the current ID for the browser window and returns the UIA object to use for clicking and other actions.
- To use Chrome automation, you need to find the element with the automation ID and get the value pattern.
- We want to create a tool that can be shared with teammates, is natively available on everyone’s computer, and doesn’t require any other tools or web drivers.
- 20:44 🤔 Get familiar with UIA to find elements and learn more about UIL automation for Auto Hobby.
- UIA is a tool that is easy to use once you understand the concept.
- Find elements with automation ID, then get the pattern to learn more about UIL automation for Auto Hobby.
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- It’s difficult to teach web scraping and API calls due to the variety of methods and properties used by developers.
