Tools tips in windows?

[bruce-optibrium]

I am experimenting with RPA.windows. I don't grok the robot syntax at all I'd rather use pure python but I don't grok the python API either yet and it isn't as well documented.

Looking with accessiblity insights I see some text called "FullDescription" which corresponds to a tooltip but there is no matching attribute if I list the attributes of that element.

Are there some limitations to robot here or is there a way to get this? An example of an element with this is the find button in a word document.

Here is a hacky script to list the attributes via RPA.Windows

from RPA.Windows import Windows 

lib=Windows()
tree = lib.print_tree("class:NetUIRibbonButton", return_structure=True)
p.pprint(tree)

items = lib.get_elements("class:NetUIRibbonButton")
p.pprint(items);

for item in items:
   attributes = lib.list_attributes(item)
   p.pprint(attributes);
   for attr in attributes:
      p.pprint(attr);
      result = lib.get_attribute("class:NetUIRibbonButton", attr)
      if result is not None:
         print("attr={}".format(result))

This isn't a great example as "NetUIRibbonButton" might correspond to other elements. Though it reproduces the error on the custom application I'm looking at where the element is sufficiently unique.

I also tried using the automation id as a locator for this example like "id:NavigationPaneFind" and it doesn't work. What are some more correct ways to do this?

Anyway this lists the attributes as:

[   'AcceleratorKey',
    'AccessKey',
    'AriaProperties',
    'AriaRole',
    'AutomationId',
    'BoundingRectangle',
    'ClassName',
    'ControlType',
    'ControlTypeName',
    'CreateControlFromControl',
    'CreateControlFromElement',
    'Culture',
    'Element',
    'FrameworkId',
    'HasKeyboardFocus',
    'HelpText',
    'IsContentElement',
    'IsControlElement',
    'IsDataValidForForm',
    'IsEnabled',
    'IsKeyboardFocusable',
    'IsOffscreen',
    'IsPassword',
    'IsRequiredForForm',
    'ItemStatus',
    'ItemType',
    'LocalizedControlType',
    'Name',
    'NativeWindowHandle',
    'Orientation',
    'ProcessId',
    'ProviderDescription',
    'ValidKeys',
    'foundIndex',
    'regexName',
    'robocorp_click_offset',
    'searchDepth',
    'searchFromControl',
    'searchInterval',
    'searchProperties']

None seem to correspond to "FullDescription".