On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:19:54 -0400, Benjamin Rutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>thanks for the explanation. I of course I did google for these >things, but found the explanations puzzling; not coming from a Windows >background, I figured there was some hidden knowledge that I could >pick up from this group; the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW one sort of makes sense, >but I did not see why being a window that contains other controls >should exclude a window from the alt-TAB list; after all, for example, >Web browsers contain other controls, such as text boxes, etc. > > Ah, but they AREN'T excluded! The code only INCLUDES windows that have WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT set. >>> The "spyxx.exe" tool can be used to poke around the window list to >>>find these things. >> >> > >looks like that is not a free tool, apparently bundled with Microsoft >Visual C++, so I guess I can not try that for now. > It used to be part of the Platform SDK, which is freely downloadable. I don't know if that is still the case. Borland also has an excellent tool for this kind of spelunking called "winsight.exe"; it is possible you might find an older version living somewhere in the dusty back rooms of the Internet. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
