Essentially I'm trying to learn more about the Win32 api, how certain classes/elements are created, destroyed, what items make them up etc.. Dissecting windows if you will for a project of mine.

I'm very curious at the moment what popups/tool tips/hover effects ubiquities to all windows applications are made up of. My main goal is to grab text from any tooltip/hover thingy/WS_POPUP?

If someone knows that is great but I'd also like to have the tools to research it myself. I'm not even sure what to google to be honest to get me on the right path. I've tried some C code to print class names and fetch the text from what I think might be a msgbox but no dice so far.

CodePudding user response：

The MiniSpy tool on Codeproject comes in handy in situations like this because it uses the corner of the spy window as the location, not the mouse.