Yet Another Spy

[Aerosol]

Download MySpy_exe.zip - 926 KB

Download MySpy_sln-noexe.zip - 1 MB

Introduction

MySpy enumerates windows on the desktop and lists them in a tree. You can see some properties of a window represented by a node in the tree (eg. HWND, PID, ect.) and some more in the info pane. For example the properties of the main window of MySpy:

Title          : MySpy
HWND           : 01051258
Class Name     : MySpy_MainFrame
Class Style    : CS_VREDRAW | CS_HREDRAW | CS_DBLCLKS
Module Name    : N/A
Rect           : (365, 167)-(1309, 695) 944x528
Window Style   : WS_BORDER | ... | WS_TILEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE = 349110272
Window ExStyle : WS_EX_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW |...| WS_EX_WINDOWEDGE = 00000264
Process ID     : 00000644
Thread ID      : 00006988
Window ID      : 1351813779

Toolbar functions

• Set MySpy top most
  
• Refresh window tree
  
• Filter buttons (filters can be used combined eg. visible & parent windows)
  
• visible windows
  
• invisible windows
  
• parent windows
  
• child windows
  
• Display numbers in hex
  
• Highlight selected window
  
• Find ...
  

To find a window by text displayed in the tree or by mouse is also possible. The tool is very handy if you want to find a control, which is hidden, or if its size became 0 for some reason.

The user can take several actions on a selected window:

• Show
  
• Hide
  
• Enable
  
• Disable
  
• Left click
  
• Right click
  
• Left double-click
  
• Right double-click
  
• Minimize
  
• Maximize
  
• Close
  

With the Post Message Toolbar you can send or post messages, set text and transparency of the selected window.

Background

I wrote this program long time ago, but it can be used nowadays too. It helped me to detect bugs, develop tricky controls and impress colleagues they don't even know about WinApi Smile |

Points of Interest

WinApi is an "old" technology, but it's worth to know about it.

History

29/12/2014 1.0 Initial version

Source