Get FullDescription property of inspect.exe using pywinauto

[sirish-gambhira]

Hello all.

I am trying to extract FullDescription property as shown by inspect.exe using pywinauto library.

Expected Behavior

The attached image is shown when mouse is hovered over a particular UI element.

Actual Behavior

The legacy properties of the corresponding UI element using pywinauto - shows Description as '':

{'ChildId': 0, 'DefaultAction': 'Press', 'Description': '', 'Help': '', 'KeyboardShortcut': '', 'Name': 'Raise', 'Role': 43, 'State': 1048580, 'Value': ''}

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. I connected to a .exe application running in my windows machine using Application(backend="uia").connect()
2. I identified the required UI element by calling print_control_identifiers() method
3. Printed the legacy properties of the button

Short Example of Code to Demonstrate the Problem

Output of the print_control_identifiers()

1. app = Application(backend='uia').connect("application.exe")
2. dialog = app.top_window()
3. button = dialog.RaiseButton
4. print(button.legacy_properties())

Specifications

• Pywinauto version: 0.6.8
• Python version and bitness: 3.11.4
• Platform and OS: Windows

Tagging @vasily-v-ryabov for better reach. Thank you.

[sirish-gambhira]

Solved: Ref - https://stackoverflow.com/a/58604505/22806499

[vasily-v-ryabov]

It was added into atspi branch a while ago. So next major release will have all such properties.

[sirish-gambhira]

Hi @vasily-v-ryabov.

I installed the package from atspi branch and am still seeing the Description field as an empty string.