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Topic: «Better Window Identification Methods » on forum: Feature Requests   Views: 3332
 
Michael Sam
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Posted: 04/25/2012 04:29:02
 
 
 Hello,

Currently in AWM, a window can be identified by Window Class, Window Caption and Program path. While most of the times that's enough to exactly identify a window, I encounter numerous cases in which it is not. The most simple example would be Windows Task Manager: there's no way to differentiate between the main window of the Windows Task Manager and a child window of it that pops up when trying to end a process.

My suggestion would be to also allow the user to specify Visible Text (and optionally Hidden Text) to better identify the Target Window    . Here are the differences between the above example involving Task Manager:

Main Window Task Manager window details:
User added an image

End Process window of Window Task Manager:
User added an image

As you can see the Window Class and Title are the same (and the program path as well), so there's no way to differentiate between the two, but the Visible Text in the windows can help in this regard. So please add the option to filter target windows by Visible Text as well.

Thank you!.
 
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Bogdan Polishchuk
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Posted: 04/27/2012 00:52:03
 
 
 Hello Michael.

We'll consider your request.

Thank you for the post.

Best regards.
 
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