How I can get the current focused element of desktop application

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I want to automate my test case for my desktop application(windows application) where I need to get/fetch the currently focused element. Can someone please help me or guide in this regard?

I tried with GetFocus method of pywinauto which just returned the details of Active Window but I need focussed element info

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Currently it's not implemented, but the workaround is possible. For "win32" backend:

import win32gui
from pywinauto.controls.hwndwrapper import HwndWrapper
keyboard_focused = HwndWrapper(win32gui.GetFocus())

For "uia" backend (may not work for WPF app):

import win32gui
from pywinauto.controls.uiawrapper import UIAWrapper
keyboard_focused = UIAWrapper(win32gui.GetFocus())

I've filed issue #760 to implement it later.

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