For pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.MenuWrapper, the menu_select method throws an AttributeError: 'MenuWrapper' object has no attribute 'visible'

Expected Behavior

No attribute error when calling the menu_select(“menu path”) method on the MenuWrapper class.

Actual Behavior

For pywinauto.controls.uia_controls.MenuWrapper, the menu_select method throws an AttributeError: ‘MenuWrapper’ object has no attribute ‘visible’

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

menu = MenuWrapper(app.ContextMenu.wrapper_object())

menu.menu_select("New->Spread")` 

used the code snippet above to select from right click menu (after the menu was made visible in the application by right-clicking)

Short Example of Code to Demonstrate the Problem

Specifications

• Pywinauto version: 0.6.8
• Python version and bitness: Python 3.7 64-bit (Application under test is 64-bit as well)
• Platform and OS: Windows 10

Output from interactive window

>>> menu = MenuWrapper(app.ContextMenu.wrapper_object())
>>> menu.menu_select("New->Spread")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Aju.jayapalan2\Documents\Beta\px_automation_64\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\uiawrapper.py", line 715, in menu_select
    self.verify_actionable()
  File "C:\Users\Aju.jayapalan2\Documents\Beta\px_automation_64\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\base_wrapper.py", line 680, in verify_actionable
    self.verify_visible()
  File "C:\Users\Aju.jayapalan2\Documents\Beta\px_automation_64\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\base_wrapper.py", line 702, in verify_visible
    if not self.is_visible():
  File "C:\Users\Aju.jayapalan2\Documents\Beta\px_automation_64\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\base_wrapper.py", line 325, in is_visible
    return self.element_info.visible #and self.top_level_parent().element_info.visible
AttributeError: 'MenuWrapper' object has no attribute 'visible'

[ajujayapal]

Hi @ajujayapal it’s wrong usage of MenuWrapper constructor. All wrappers from backend="uia" expect UIAElementInfo object as a constructor parameter. So you have to use this line:

menu = MenuWrapper(app.ContextMenu.wrapper_object().element_info)

Is app.ContextMenu.wrapper_object() returned object of another class than MenuWrapper?

Using your suggestion, I got an AttributeError (on line 721 in menu_select)

For app.ContextMenu.wrapper_object() I got -> <uia_controls.MenuWrapper - ‘Context’, Menu, 3713037277417833081>

Screenshot of the python command line interactive screen. http://bit.ly/35aQ9xH

[vasily-v-ryabov]

@airelil is right, but more interesting is what menu.children() and menu.descendants() returns. And how it’s compared with what Inspect.exe shows hovering mouse over the menu item (with a hierarchy on screenshot).

Anyway I would say our implementation provided useless error message in this case. I will mark the issue as an enhancement to handle context menus more properly. If menu.children() returns MenuItemWrapper objects, the fix should be pretty easy.