Hey there. Since appium client version 1.18+ im not able to inspect elements of windows applications using winappdriver.
For example:
- I start a winappserver (newest version - by default it run on 127.0.0.0:4327)
- I start an Appium Client version 1.18.2, 1.19, 1.20 (works fine with 1.17.0).
- I start new session using capabilities (it runs opens windows calculator and make screenshot of it)
{
“app”: “Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App”
}
Remote host 127.0.0.1, Port 4723, remotePath ‘/’
As a result appium made a screenshot of calulcator but doesnt recognize any of its elements. (like it does in early versions). Also i can notice that app source contains only 5 tags, MenuItem, MenuBar, and three buttons. All tags are empty and doesnt contains any more elements.
Using version 17.0.1 works fine.