You cannot do that. Let’s start by rephrasing the problem statement to more easily follow along, why that is the case: “How do I convince a program that has chosen to ignore mouse input messages—by decision or coincidence—to acknowledge mouse input messages?” As it turns out, that part is actually solved. As the documentation for … Read more
You can use win32gui.GetWindowText( hwnd ) along with win32gui.EnumWindows: import win32gui def winEnumHandler( hwnd, ctx ): if win32gui.IsWindowVisible( hwnd ): print ( hex( hwnd ), win32gui.GetWindowText( hwnd ) ) win32gui.EnumWindows( winEnumHandler, None ) Output: 0x20fa4 bet – [C:\Users\X\Desktop\] – [bet] – L:\stack\stack_enum_windows.py – IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.5 0x1932478 13. vnc 888 0x30c27b8 Telegram (55) 0x40aba MobaXterm … Read more
The solution is using the combined power of GetWindowRect() and MapWindowPoints(). GetWindowRect() retrieves the coordinates of a window relative to the entire screen area you see on your monitor. We need to convert these absolute coordinates into relative coordinates of our main window area. The MapWindowPoints() transforms the coordinates given relative to one window into … Read more
After lots of searching and trying various different methods, the following worked for me. import win32gui import win32ui from ctypes import windll import Image hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, ‘Calculator’) # Change the line below depending on whether you want the whole window # or just the client area. #left, top, right, bot = win32gui.GetClientRect(hwnd) left, top, … Read more
My program works fine on my desktop with Windows 7, but when I use my laptop with Windows Vista (even with UAC off), I get the error: pywintypes.error: (0, ‘SetForegroundWindow’, ‘No error message is available’) The program will flash in the taskbar, but no characters are sent. I even tried sending ‘notepad’ SetForegroundWindow and get … Read more