WndPick

Description

Short story: Capture cursor feedback outside your own window, like Spy++ does, to highlight and pick any window on the system.

Longer description from old site: click here.

To be edited...

Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

Let Users Automate File Pasting, Q&A, VBPJ, September 1997

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function

FWindowPicker.frm user32

GetCursorPos
ReleaseCapture
SetCapture
SetForegroundWindow
WindowFromPoint

MFrameWindow.bas gdi32

user32

CreateHatchBrush
CreatePen
CreateRectRgn
DeleteDC
DeleteObject
FrameRgn
GetStockObject
Rectangle
SelectObject
SetROP2
GetSysColor
GetSystemMetrics
GetWindowDC
GetWindowRect
GetWindowRgn
IsWindow
IsZoomed
ReleaseDC

Don't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.

Module	Library	Function
FWindowPicker.frm	user32	GetCursorPos ReleaseCapture SetCapture SetForegroundWindow WindowFromPoint
MFrameWindow.bas	gdi32 user32	CreateHatchBrush CreatePen CreateRectRgn DeleteDC DeleteObject FrameRgn GetStockObject Rectangle SelectObject SetROP2 GetSysColor GetSystemMetrics GetWindowDC GetWindowRect GetWindowRgn IsWindow IsZoomed ReleaseDC

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Download WndPick.zip, 5Kb, Last Updated: Thursday, December 18, 2003