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AutomationElement shows up using Inspect.exe but does show not up when using UIAutomationCore.dll or System.Windows.Automation

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP AutomationElement shows up using Inspect.exe but does show not up when using UIAutomationCore.dll or System.Windows.Automation TL;DR : What am I doing wrong that is causing the workspace pane to show up in Inspect Objects but not show up in my custom code? I am trying to write some UI automation to a 3rd party program. I am using Inspect.exe that came with the Windows SDK, and I have tried both System.Windows.Automation and direct COM Calls (using the wrapper library from UIA Verify). Process processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("Redacted Client"); if (processes.Length == 0) throw new Exception("Could not find "Redacted Client" process"); PropertyCondition parentFileCond = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ProcessIdProperty, processes[0].Id); PropertyCondition workspaceCond = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Workspace", PropertyConditionFlags.IgnoreCase); PropertyCondition documentCond ...

Pywinauto unintended result when initiating button control with click(), automating install of driver

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP Pywinauto unintended result when initiating button control with click(), automating install of driver Recently delving into Python and automation for the first time so please forgive me for any unintended ignorance. Trying to automate the installation of a cash drawer driver for POS units. I have modelled my code similarily to the answer provided in this question: How to access the control identifiers in pywinauto The code: from pywinauto import application, findwindows, handleprops app = application.Application() # create 'app' instance object app.start("C:/POS Post install/1_setup.exe") #start installer within instance handle_variable = findwindows.find_windows(class_name = "MsiDialogCloseClass") # variable containing handle of installer dlg = app.window_(handle = handle_variable[0]) # specify dialogue dlg.print_control_identifiers() The output of print_control_identifiers(): Control Identifiers: M...