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Robert Sturdevant
Robert Sturdevant

Reputation: 35

How to ID a control with Windows Spy?

Newby here...I have my first script running...yeah! But I'd like to read some window controls. I see in the AHK Help for GetControlPos and others:

Can be either ClassNN (the classname and instance number of the control) or the name/text of the control, both of which can be determined via Window Spy.

Duh, I can't find the info in Windows Spy. Can someone point me in the right direction...TIA.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3648

Answers (1)

Robert Ilbrink
Robert Ilbrink

Reputation: 7953

You have to hover over the controls with you mouse. In the "Under mouse" section you will see what can be gathered from the application. In quite a few situations, you will not see more that the colour under the mouse. When the application has named controls, you will then see the ClassNN name/ID.

In short, not all programs have named controls.

You can test with e.g. Notepad and in Notepad use file save. The file save dialog has named controls.

Upvotes: 1

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