Handling pop-up windows is a common requirement when automating tasks using Python. The pyautogui library provides a simple and efficient way to interact with GUI elements, including pop-up windows, in a platform-independent manner.

In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to use pyautogui to handle pop-up windows.

Installing pyautogui

Before we begin, make sure you have pyautogui installed. You can install it using pip:

pip install pyautogui

Handling a simple pop-up window

Let’s start by handling a simple pop-up window that displays a message and an “OK” button.

import pyautogui

# Find the position of the pop-up window
popup_position = pyautogui.locateOnScreen('popup.png')

# Click on the "OK" button
ok_button_position = pyautogui.center(popup_position)
pyautogui.click(ok_button_position)

In the above code, we use the locateOnScreen function to find the position of the pop-up window. We provide an image file (popup.png) that contains a screenshot of the pop-up window. If the image is found on the screen, the position is returned.

Once we have the position of the pop-up window, we use the center function to find the center position of the window. We then use the click function to click on the “OK” button.

Waiting for a pop-up window

In some cases, we need to wait for a pop-up window to appear before interacting with it. We can use the waitFor function in pyautogui to wait for a specific image to appear on the screen.

import pyautogui

# Wait for the pop-up window to appear
popup_position = pyautogui.waitFor('popup.png')

# Click on the "OK" button
ok_button_position = pyautogui.center(popup_position)
pyautogui.click(ok_button_position)

In the above code, we use the waitFor function to wait for the image (popup.png) to appear on the screen. Once the image is found, the function returns the position of the image.

We can then proceed with interacting with the pop-up window as before.

Conclusion

Handling pop-up windows using pyautogui in Python is a powerful way to automate GUI interactions. In this blog post, we covered how to handle simple pop-up windows and how to wait for pop-up windows to appear.

With pyautogui, you can easily automate repetitive tasks that involve interacting with GUI elements, making your life as a developer much easier.

Happy automating!