Recently I was working on a utility very similar spy++, but could do more than what we have in spy++ - like besides getting me the window (not Windows :P) class name and its height/width etc, it could also give me the caption of the window. I read couple of articles and all suggested to use global hooks. Using hooks because we are doing all this stuff using mouse – a very similar UI experience like that of spy++ - you click on the bull’s eye icon and drag the mouse to the destination...

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