Importing pywinauto changes the fileopenbox UI

[breadcat-rr]

When importing pywinauto it makes the fileopenbox (and probably others, untested) a less usable and worse UI. e.g

import pywinauto
import easygui
easygui.fileopenbox()

Expected UI.

The UI that is actually presented.

[zadacka]

Strange - I can't reproduce this. Did something else change in between the before/after screenshots? If you comment out the pywinauto import do you still see the unexpected (light) dialog?

[breadcat-rr]

For me at least, when I comment out pywinauto it shows back to the expected UI

[zadacka]

Hmm, what versions of easygui and pywinauto, and and which Windows OS are you using? I’ll have another shot at reproducing it..

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For me at least, when I comment out pywinauto it shows back to the expected UI

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[breadcat-rr]

easygui: Version: 0.98.2

pywinauto Version: 0.6.8

OS: Windows 10 Pro Version: 20H2 OS Build: 19042.1348

[zadacka]

Nope, my initial hypothesis seems totally wrong.

What is your tkinter version? Has it changed since installing and using pywinauto (or other dependencies)?

My default theme is 'light' (maybe using an older version of tk), and I haven't been able to find where it is set or default. I don't think that it is explicitly changed anywhere in easygui

[breadcat-rr]

I'm using tkinter version 8.6. I don't think its changed at all because I never update my packages lol

[hrpzcf]

Maybe it's a bug of pywinauto, edit pywinauto/__init__.py line 83, change return com_init_mode to return 2, it should work.

[breadcat-rr]

Yep, that works, Thanks!. Also found out that easygui.diropenbox() just hangs if pywinauto is unchanged.