Control Viewer - AutoIt Window Info Tool

[Yashied]

LAST VERSION - 1.1

18-May-12

Control Viewer (CV) is a replacement of AutoIt Window Info with a number of advantages. I tried to stick to the interface of the last, so you almost do not have to be retrained. During testing, I never managed to find any controls that could not be identified by CV (on the contrary, shows a lot of hidden controls, especially for the system windows). The all program settings are stored in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareY'sControl Viewer

The main differences CV from AWI

• Shows the complete list of all existing controls for the window that are interested (visible, hidden and deleted controls are displayed with different colors that can be changed to any other).
• Dynamically changing information during search for the windows and their controls.
• Ability to quickly switch between controls in the list.
• Ability to show/hide any controls from the list (useful for the overlaping controls).
• Information for the Style and ExStyle parameters shown in the form of hexadecimal values​​, and as its flags.
• Added the PID and Path parameters in the Window tab and ability to quickly open a folder that containing the process file.
• Added the coordinate system relative to the selected control.
• Shows a color of the selected pixel in RGB and BGR formats.
• Shows an example fill of the selected color.
• Ability to select the text encoding (affects the Text parameter in the Control tab).
• The complete change the appearance of pop-up frame for the selected controls.
• Simple and convenient tool to get a screenshot of the part screen of interest for publication on the forum (Capture tab).
• Create a report in the clipboard or a text file for subsequent publication on the forum.
• Search all running AutoIt scripts and their windows in the system (AutoIt tab).
• User-friendly interface.

Used shortcuts

Ctrl+Alt+T - Enable/Disable "Always On Top" mode (also available from the menu).

Ctrl+Alt+H - Enable/Disable highlight selected controls (also available from the menu).

Ctrl+A - Select all text (works in any input field).

Ctrl - Hold down when moving the mouse to scroll the screenshot (Capture tab).

Shift - Hold down when stretching/compression of the contour frame for an equilateral resizing screenshots (Capture tab).

DoubleClick (on the screenshot) - Save the image to a file (Capture tab).

DoubleClick (on any list item) - Open a folder with the file of the process or AutoIt script (AutoIt tab).

Del (on any list item) - Close process (AutoIt tab).

F5 - Updating the list (AutoIt tab).

If anyone have any questions or comments about CV, please post it in this thread. I will be glad to any feedback and suggestions.

Files to download

Binary (x86 and x64)

Redirection to CV_bin.zip, 1.14 MB

CV_bin.html

Source

Redirection to CV_source.zip, 691 KB

CV_source.html

Edited December 8, 2013 by Yashied

[Bowmore]

A very nice tool Yashied. It is easy to use and has some nice features.

2 suggestions for improvements

1) You do not capture the control name information,. This is available with AU3Info and is very useful when trying to automate .NET applications, if the programmer has remembered to give the controls names.

2) It would be nice to be able to save a report, in tabular format, that included all available information for every control on the current window. You already have most of the information in the listview at the bottom.

Edited March 20, 2011 by Bowmore

[4Eyes]

Yashied,

I must be doing something wrong as Bowmore seems to have no problem, but I see nothing at all if the various fields of CV. No Window/Control title, class etc.

Tried the exe file and running from source. Sigh...

Can you please advise?

4Eyes

[somdcomputerguy]

@4Eyes, You are using the 'Browse Tool' correctly, ya? Click and Drag from there to the Window/Control you are targeting. BTW, Yashied, nice.<br>

Edited March 20, 2011 by somdcomputerguy

[4Eyes]

somedcomputerguy,

Oh... I didn't understand that was the way to use it at all. Yashied said it was quite sim to AutoIT Window Info so assumed I could just hover around a window.

Thanks for advising.

4Eyes

[AdmiralAlkex]

somedcomputerguy,

Oh... I didn't understand that was the way to use it at all. Yashied said it was quite sim to AutoIT Window Info so assumed I could just hover around a window.

Thanks for advising.

4Eyes

Wait. "Freeze" is enabled per default, so why would you assume CW is like Au3Info with Freeze off? Doesn't really make sense. You must be using a ancient AutoIt.

[JohnOne]

Really good, and works a treat.

Great work, thanks for sharing.

[UEZ]

Great stuff again Yashied

Cool art of coding, nice GUI, great functions, etc.

5* from me!

Br,

UEZ

[fett8802]

Holy crap! The single best part of this is that it shows ALL available controls regardless of state. This will be incredibly useful. Thank you sir!

[zhangla]

very good ,Thank you very much!

[Yashied]

The small update, version remains unchanged.

[Gigglestick]

Wow, extremely impressive. This should definitely replace the one packaged with AutoIt3 whenever the next version is released.

[KaFu]

A really cool tool again, five stars from me ...

[Zedna]

VERY nice!

Five stars from me.

[FireFox]

It's a huge of work, well done !

I like the graphical interface, 5* from me.

FireFox.

[JScript]

*****

[martin]

Looks really good Yashied. Definitely a candidate to replace the existing Window Info tool.

I have one small problem. When you drag the browse tool over a window that has a scrolled area then the information on the controls doesn't change as the cursor moves across them if the scrolled item covers that area. The information gets locked onto the scrolled window I think. I tried it on my program here but t is probably the same on any scrolling window. If you scroll fully left and fully down so that the scrolled window is not 'under' the icons at th eright then the information is shown as I would expect again.

[JScript]

Browse Tool -> Excellent! But does not show information about Firefox 4...

[Yashied]

I have one small problem. When you drag the browse tool over a window that has a scrolled area then the information on the controls doesn't change as the cursor moves across them if the scrolled item covers that area. The information gets locked onto the scrolled window I think. I tried it on my program here but t is probably the same on any scrolling window. If you scroll fully left and fully down so that the scrolled window is not 'under' the icons at th eright then the information is shown as I would expect again.

This is because the controls is overlaping. CV highlights the top control, regardless of its style. But you can always make it invisible (click on checkbox in control's list), and continue to search for control of interest.

Browse Tool -> Excellent! But does not show information about Firefox 4...

DirectX... Edited May 8, 2011 by Yashied

[martin]

This is because the controls is overlaping. CV highlights the top control, regardless of its style. But you can always make it invisible (click on checkbox in control's list), and continue to search for control of interest.

OK, I can make the control invisible using the checkbox, but the control highlit isn't the top one; the controls on top are not selected unless I make the bottom window invisible.

But it's not a big problem.