Window Detective full changelog

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.

New features:
General tab of the System Info dialog now includes almost all of the parameters available from SystemParametersInfo, and you can modify them.

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.

New features:
Message pane now shows time each message was received.
Properties pane now shows window class styles.

Minor improvements:
· Added some more message parameter definitions.

Bugs fixed:
· Application would crash when saving messages from a deleted window.

New features:
· Able to start/stop message capture in the messages pane.
· Able to clear message list in messages pane.
· Scroll bar info is shown in the properties pane.

Minor improvements:
· Added some more message parameter definitions.
· Added quot;parentquot; as a searchable field. Also replaced quot;process namequot; and quot;process idquot; with just quot;processquot;, which has a drop down list of all available processes.
· Window Detective will ignore messages sent from itself to another window (which it sometimes does to get window info).

· In the message pane, more information is shown for message parameters. Parameter names are used (as defined in the Windows documentation) instead of quot;wParamquot; and quot;lParamquot;.
· Define custom messages and their parameters using xml.

· For some messages, extra data (structs pointed to by wParam or lParam) is
· now obtained and shown in message pane.
· Added option to automatically open property pane whenever a window is
· selected in the tree. It will show maximised in the MDI area.
· Changed the look of the Message Filter dialog (single list instead of two).
· Ability to search for partial string in Message Filter dialog list.
· ID 3481505. Added an option to Message Filter dialog to include/exclude
· unknown messages (ones not in the list).
· Minor improvements
· Messages dialog now shows returned messages separately, like Winspector.
· Added quot;What's Thisquot; help text to some dialogs (the ones with a quesion mark
· button in the title bar).
· Bugs fixed
· ID 3434845. Fixed GDI handle leak when creating window highlight border.
· Custom messages (defined in user data file) for non-system window classes
· were not being picked up.
· Custom resources (messages, icons, etc) were being read from local app data

· Settings were not being read on startup.

· Parent and owner labels on property pages are clickable, and locate that
· window in the hierarchy tree when clicked.
· Options to restore settings and export to or import from an INI file.
· Fun easter-egg in About dialog.

Minor improvements:
· Balloon notification is now shown just above the main window, instead of
· being a topmost window. i.e. it can now be obscured by other windows.
· Added definition for group box (button with BS_GROUPBOX style).

Bugs fixed:
· Items in ComboBox property page were not being cleared when the window was
· updated, resulting in duplicate entries in the list.
· Installer overwrote user files on upgrade.