Cursor

The "window picker" cursor can use 32-bit colour with transparency on operating systems that support it (Window XP and higher). Alternatively, you can choose to use a 16-bit indexed colour cursor.

Regular Expression Syntax

When matching a regular expression, such as in the Find dialog, Window Detective will use one of the following syntax:
Standard RegExp A rich Perl-like pattern matching syntax.
Wildcard This provides a simple pattern matching syntax similar to that used by shells (command interpreters) for "file globbing".
Wildcard matching is much simpler than full regexps and has only four features:
c Any character represents itself apart from those mentioned below. Thus c matches the character c.
? Matches any single character. It is the same as . in full regexps.
* Matches zero or more of any characters. It is the same as .* in full regexps.
[...] Sets of characters can be represented in square brackets, similar to full regexps. Within the character class, like outside, backslash has no special meaning.
Wildcard Unix This is similar to Wildcard but with the behaviour of a Unix shell. The wildcard characters can be escaped with the character "".
For more information about regular expressions, visit http://www.regular-expressions.info

User Interface

Keep Window Detective windows on top

The Window Detective main window, and any other dialog windows such as the Find dialog, will stay on top of other windows on the desktop.

Note: When this option is changed, the application needs to re-build the affected windows, so you may notice them disappear for a short period of time.