Month: February 2017

I found this Windows Media Player example on a website:

You can automate  Microsoft Media Player with win32com without
starting the GUI.This example opens and plays some media files:

# this program will play MP3, WMA, MID, WAV files via the WindowsMediaPlayer
from win32com.client import Dispatch
mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
# use an mp3 file you have ...
#tune = mp.newMedia("C:/Program Files/Common Files/HP/Memories Disc/2.0/audio/Swing.mp3")
# or copy one to the working folder ...
#tune = mp.newMedia("Bier1.mp3")

# you can also play wma files, this cool sound came with XP ...
tune = mp.newMedia("C:/WINDOWS/system32/oobe/images/title.wma")
mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune)
mp.controls.play()
# to stop playing use
raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing")

mp.controls.stop()

This example opens the Windows calculator (calc) and makes some input like using the keyboard.

import win32com.client
import win32api

shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run("calc")
win32api.Sleep(100)
shell.AppActivate("Calculator")
win32api.Sleep(100)
shell.SendKeys("1{+}")
win32api.Sleep(500)
shell.SendKeys("2")
win32api.Sleep(500)
shell.SendKeys("~") # ~ is the same as {ENTER}
win32api.Sleep(500)
shell.SendKeys("*3")
win32api.Sleep(500)
shell.SendKeys("~")
win32api.Sleep(2500)

With sendkeys (Python/Pywin32 uses WScript from Windows Scripting Host) one can control applications via shortcuts. eg.

This example first opens Microsoft Outlook, takes the first element, marks the full text and takes it into the clipboard (CTRL + C).

import win32com.client
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run("outlook")
shell.AppActivate("Outlook")
shell.SendKeys("^o", 0) # 1 für Pause = true 0 für nein
shell.SendKeys("^a", 0)
shell.SendKeys("^c", 0)

Here is a list of WScript-commands:

Key	Argument
BACKSPACE	{BACKSPACE}, {BS}, or {BKSP}
BREAK	{BREAK}
CAPS LOCK	{CAPSLOCK}
DEL or DELETE	{DELETE} or {DEL}
DOWN ARROW	{DOWN}
END	{END}
ENTER	{ENTER} or ~
ESC	{ESC}
HELP	{HELP}
HOME	{HOME}
INS or INSERT	{INSERT} or {INS}
LEFT ARROW	{LEFT}
NUM LOCK	{NUMLOCK}
PAGE DOWN	{PGDN}
PAGE UP	{PGUP}
PRINT SCREEN	{PRTSC}
RIGHT ARROW	{RIGHT}
SCROLL LOCK	{SCROLLLOCK}
TAB	{TAB}
UP ARROW	{UP}
F1	{F1}
F2	{F2}
F3	{F3}
F4	{F4}
F5	{F5}
F6	{F6}
F7	{F7}
F8	{F8}
F9	{F9}
F10	{F10}
F11	{F11}
F12	{F12}
F13	{F13}
F14	{F14}
F15	{F15}
F16	{F16}

Steuerung, Shift, ALT und Enter werden wie folgt gesendet:

This example shows you the available ProgIDs of the Windows applications which are installed and ahould be usable  with win32com. My problem is, that most of the ProgIDs are shown, but not all ?!

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ProgIDSpecification")
for objItem in colItems:
    print "Caption: ", objItem.Caption
    print "Check ID: ", objItem.CheckID
    print "Check Mode: ", objItem.CheckMode
    print "Description: ", objItem.Description
    print "Name: ", objItem.Name
    print "Parent: ", objItem.Parent
    print "ProgID: ", objItem.ProgID
    print "Software Element ID: ", objItem.SoftwareElementID
    print "Software Element State: ", objItem.SoftwareElementState
    print "Target Operating System: ", objItem.TargetOperatingSystem
    print "Version: ", objItem.Version
    print "-------------------------------------------------------------------\n"

This example prints the name and and pathes of the open windows (Tip: You can get the CLSID with makepy in Pythonwin):

import win32com.client
# look in the makepy output for IE for the 'CLSIDToClassMap'
# dictionary, and find the entry for 'ShellWindows'
clsid='{9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39}'
ShellWindows=win32com.client.Dispatch(clsid)
for i in range(ShellWindows.Count):
    print i
    # this is the titlebar value
    print ShellWindows[i].LocationName
    # this is the current URL
    print ShellWindows[i].LocationURL
print