Cannot Automate a desktop application

I want to automate a desktop application called GIMP. But it doesn’t seem to work. Can some one help please? Thank you very much.

@Penganimation,

what’s wrong it? uipath is unable to select an item.

yes it cannot select any item

when i use the click activity, it just give me the whole window instead of individual buttons

Yes, it will, I’m able to select an item,
I wanted to click on Recent New link and uipath is able to do that.
i guess you have not installed Chrome extension, please do it and let us know.

sorry I mean the windows app its self. Please see attached.

@Penganimation,

Oh, it’s software.
can you try using Basic Recording instead Desktop Recording?

it dosen’t seem to work. I find that i can capture buttons for certain apps. But for this app and some photo manipulation apps, uipath cannot get the buttons at all

@Penganimation,

Ok…

Now I have only one option to tell you, give a try with mouse(click image) and keyboard automation.

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it works! thank you so much. But do you know whats the reason for it not able to detect buttons for certain apps?

@Penganimation,

I guess it’s citrix software like SAP where uipath cant help us detect an ui element.
I’m not recommending, but if you scan above two weblinks, will get it.

Cheers,
Pankaj