About Window Info

Window Info (WINFO.EXE) was inspired by Costas Kitso's VBFindID. It reports the caption, window handle and class name of (1) the window under the mouse cursor, (2) its parent window, and (3) its progenitor window (the parent of its parent's parent for as many generations back as its ancestry goes). Written in VB 2.0, source code included. Demonstrates use of Windows API calls for obtaining window titles, caption, and class, and for determining mouse position. Also demonstrates how to make a window "stay on top" and--using Jonathan Zuck's DoEvents() method--how to create a hotkey for a VB application. Window Info is useful both as a debugging tool for applications which manipulate windows belonging to other apps, and for revealing structural details about other Windows applications. Requires VBRUN200.DLL.

A little history: I wrote Window Info as a debugging tool for an application called VB Titlebar Clock that will appear in my Visual Programming column in the debut issue of Windows Sources, and, in an expanded form, in PC Magazine Visual Basic Lab Notes, to be published next spring by Ziff-Davis Press.

Contact Paul Bonner @ CIS 76000,13 with any questions.