exorcistas / autoit-uiautomation-udf

AutoIt UDF wrapper for MS Windows UIAutomation (UIA) layer

UI Automation library UDF

Table of Contents

• About
• Installation
• Usage
• Documentation
• Examples

About

This UDF is an AutoIt wrapper for 'Windows UI Automation' (UIA) layer.
It allows to interact with desktop application layers otherwise not reachable to standard Win32 spying with AutoIt3Info explorer.
Note, that not all functionality might be mapped or updated in current published version.

Installation

Simply copy .au3 files to your development directory and use #include to point to these files in the source code.

Usage

• Use UIAutomation_*.au3 for core functionality to UIA layer.
• Tools like UISpy or Inspect allows to see applications in UIA layer.

Documentation

• MSDN Windows Accesibility Features PDF
• MSDN UIAutomation Overview
• MSDN UIA/MS Active Accessibility
• MSDN UIA Entry
• MSDN UIA Client
• MSDN UIA Core Reference
• AutoIt UIA Framework
• AutoIt UIA Use

Examples

• Example code