What's new in Window Detective Portable 3.5.1

Dec 6, 2017
  • Key Features:
  • View properties of windows such as text/title, dimensions and styles.
  • Set properties such as text/title, dimensions and styles.
  • View all windows in a tree hierarchy of parent/child windows.
  • 'Pick' windows to inspect using the mouse.
  • Advanced search which allows you to find windows that match specified criteria.
  • Listen for window messages sent to a window.
  • "Smart Settings" that intelligently remember user settings such as window positions.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • ID #10. Crash when capturing messages.
  • Known Issues:
  • Hook DLL is 32-bit and therefore will not work with 64-bit processes.
  • When a lot of windows are destroyed, some of them may not be removed from the window tree. Refreshing the tree will fix this.
  • Getting extra window info (i.e. font, background brush) will fail for certain windows. I have noticed this for some of Firefox's windows.

New in Window Detective Portable 3.5.0 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • New features:
  • General tab of the System Info dialog now includes almost all of the parameters available from SystemParametersInfo, and you can modify them.
  • Known issues:
  • Hook DLL is 32-bit and therefore will not work with 64-bit processes.
  • When a lot of windows are destroyed, some of them may not be removed from the window tree. Refreshing the tree will fix this.
  • Getting extra window info (i.e. font, background brush) will fail for certain windows. I have noticed this for some of Firefox's windows.

New in Window Detective Portable 3.4.0 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • New features
  • - Message extra data (structs pointed to by wParam or lParam) can now be
  • configured for any messages. Previously, this was hard-coded for just a
  • few messages.
  • - Properties pane now shows window class atom (unique identifier).
  • Minor improvements
  • - Added some more message parameter definitions.
  • - Added more info to System Info dialog.
  • Bugs fixed
  • - Application would crash when saving details of a window when the background
  • brush could not be obtained.
  • - Extended styles for common controls (such as List View) were mistakenly
  • being shown as extended window styles.
  • - Size of docked "Window Hierarchy" and "Logs" panes were not remembered.

New in Window Detective Portable 3.3.0 (Apr 12, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Message pane now shows time each message was received.
  • Properties pane now shows window class styles.
  • Others:
  • Removed support for 16bit cursor. Only 32bit is used now.
  • Removed the pre-packaged styles, as Qt no longer includes them by default.
  • Note that you can still use custom CSS styling.

New in Window Detective Portable 3.2.1 (Nov 5, 2012)

  • Minor improvements:
  • Added some more message parameter definitions.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Application would crash when saving messages from a deleted window.