'operation (e.g. mouse click) when window not focused' BUG

Expected Behavior

Until windows 10 latest update (19043.1237) pywinauto ‘background processing’ worked like charm. So, e.g. it was possible to click on a window even if it wasnt focused and set foreground with code like:

app = Application()
app.connect(handle=target_window)
app.window(title=window_title).click(button='left', coords=(int(x_cor),int(y_cor)))  

Actual Behavior

Now, the same code stopped working, to be exact: the code always set the window focused and foreground, 😦 I am not sure how many people affected by this in practice, but I assume this is a relatively large bug/correction would be great to have fixed if possible.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. install windows version updates 19043.1237 or higher.
2. run a simple code like above and and bug reproduced.

Short Example of Code to Demonstrate the Problem

Shown above.

Specifications

• Pywinauto version: 0.6.8
• Python version and bitness: 3.9.7
• Platform and OS: Windows 10 19043.1237

BIG thank you for your help and time to look into this

[madtatu-development]

BIG thanks for your response, time and help! Actually, I love to keep things simple, so I do use it as simple as possible, here is the real code:

`# ---------------------- mouse click (WITHOUT the need of make it active and foreground) def left_click (x_coordinate, y_coordinate):

try:                        

    target_window = win32gui.FindWindow(None, ("Google - Google Chrome"))

    app = Application()
    app.connect(handle=target_window)
    app.window(title=window_title).click(button='left', coords=(x_coordinate,y_coordinate)) 

except (RuntimeError, ElementNotFoundError, BaseException): 
        
    print ("Target window became unavailable!")

    os._exit(1) `

Steps to reproduce the issue: 1) Open Chrome, I have version:

2) open www.google.com or any other website, the critical thing to choose simple website to make sure it doesnt has nested content (eg. typical in online games) as thats cant be clicked. So just something simple website for testing.

3) open notepad and maximize it.

4) Now execute the code above in python with setting any x,y coordinate,

When the click happen: Chrome window will come forward, front of notepad window.

Does it happen at your side as well ?

[madtatu-development]

Appreciate your response, fully understanding, looking forward to your feedback in November. Once again, BIG thanks for letting me know and lots of strength for handling the overload.