Picking a Window Using the Mouse

You can select or 'pick' a visible window to inspect by using the mouse. To do so, click and drag the target icon in the toolbar. The main Window Detective window will be temporarily hidden so that you have a clear view of all other windows. Move the mouse over the window you want, the window currently under the mouse will be highlighted with a red border. Release the mouse button to select the window, it will be selected in the window tree in Window Detective's main window.

Note: If you hold Shift when picking a window, the properties pane will be displayed when you release the mouse. Holding Ctrl will show messages for that window.

In addition to the red border, a small information pane will be displayed in the top left corner of the selected window. This shows common info on the selected window including it's class name, title and dimensions. See Window Info preferences on customizing the info pane.