Windows hwnd spy

It also provides a Refresh command to update the active view, a Window Finder Tool to make spying easier, and a Font dialog box to customize view windows. Which commands are displayed depends on where the pointer is.

For example, if you right-click an entry in the Window view and the selected window is visible, then clicking Highlight on the shortcut menu causes the border of the selected window to flash so that it can be located more easily. For example, Visual Studio runs in a bit process. For example, on a bit operating system, Notepad runs in a bit process.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. I find it faster to ask "dumb" questions like this than to struggle through all the help menus. Hope I am not making a pest of myself. Back to Ask for Help.

Reply to quoted posts Clear. Register now! Username or email:. I've forgotten my password Forum Password. Remember me This is not recommended for shared computers. But it is definitely prudent to limit the running of spy programs to only one instance. I have provided the sample code to demonstrate how this can be done. If you feel that it is not necessary, simply remove it. This routine launches the "Search Window" dialog box. The dialog box is a modal dialog box that will not return until the user clicks on the "OK" or "Cancel" button.

Thereafter, the SearchWindowDialogProc dialog proc takes over the message processing for the dialog box. Besides the Window Finding facility, the dialog box is very simple in nature and will leave most messages to the default dialog proc provided by the system.

The function SetFinderToolImage controls this. We start the window finding operation by calling on the SearchWindow function which is described next. The SearchWindow function starts the window searching operation. Next comes the software magic show that gives the illusion of the mouse grabbing the bulls eye image and moving it out of its bulls eye's "tiny window".

We do this via the SetFinderToolImage function. Next, we call on MoveCursorPositionToBullsEye to move the cursor position from wherever it currently is to the exact screen position of the bulls eye point on the static control :. These three actions give the smooth illusion that the user has somehow grabbed the bulls eye image from its tiny window and has transformed it to become a mouse cursor. How's that for some software "smoke-and-mirrors"? Next comes the very important operation of capturing all mouse messages from now onwards and re-directing them all to the "Search Window" dialog box procedure.

More on these later. Lastly, we hide the main frame window for convenience. We will later unhide it when the window searching operation has completed. We will call on DoMouseMove to process mouse movement.