Insert text in Windows text controls /u/Big-Gate8277 Python Education

I am trying to become more familiar with programming GUI applications on Windows that interface with the OS. As a starting project, I want to build an App similar to Grammarly.

The app should do the following:

1. Automatically (or currently on pressing a keyboard shortcut), it will send the contents of the current text box to a backend
2. Run it by the GPT API to correct mistakes.
3. Insert the corrected text back into the active text box

Step 1 and 2 work fine, I am using pywinauto.Desktop(backend="uia").window().descendants() to find the descendant that has_keyboard_focus() and extract the text.

However, I am having trouble with re-inserting it. Replacing the text using pywinauto did not work in all applications, so currently I am just sending ctrl+a and ctrl+v. This is not very reliable as it takes some time and sometimes ctrl+a gets sent too late, resulting in duplicate text.

Also, in the future, I want to use this e.g. in Word and it should not always replace the whole document, but for example only the current paragraph or the current selection. What is a better way to insert text back into Windows text controls?

I am trying to become more familiar with programming GUI applications on Windows that interface with the OS. As a starting project, I want to build an App similar to Grammarly.

The app should do the following:

1. Automatically (or currently on pressing a keyboard shortcut), it will send the contents of the current text box to a backend
2. Run it by the GPT API to correct mistakes.
3. Insert the corrected text back into the active text box

Step 1 and 2 work fine, I am using pywinauto.Desktop(backend="uia").window().descendants() to find the descendant that has_keyboard_focus() and extract the text.

However, I am having trouble with re-inserting it. Replacing the text using pywinauto did not work in all applications, so currently I am just sending ctrl+a and ctrl+v. This is not very reliable as it takes some time and sometimes ctrl+a gets sent too late, resulting in duplicate text.

Also, in the future, I want to use this e.g. in Word and it should not always replace the whole document, but for example only the current paragraph or the current selection. What is a better way to insert text back into Windows text controls?