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Inspect is a Windows-based tool which is used to identify/inspect elements (such as button, link, icon etc.) of Desktop/standalone application. Inspect is installed with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK).

Inspect (Inspect.exe) is a Windows-based tool that enables you select any UI element and view the element's accessibility data. You can view Microsoft UI Automation properties and control patterns, as well as Microsoft Active Accessibility properties. Inspect also enables you to test the navigational structure of the automation elements in the UI Automation tree, and the accessible objects in the Microsoft Active Accessibility hierarchy.

Inspect is installed with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). (It is also available in previous versions of Windows SDK.) It is located in the \bin\\ folder of the SDK installation path (Inspect.exe).

For more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/inspect-objects

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What's the difference of UISpy.exe and Inspect.exe? (From Microsoft Windows SDK)

I really want to know, how Inspect.exe gets it's UI-Elements, because it gets by far more elements than UISpy (Both available in Microsoft Windows SDK 7). 1) I think UISpy gets it's elements with UIAutomation library, right? (Tried it with…
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Pywinauto - There are 2 elements that match criteria

this is my first post! I would like to ask you how can i solve this problem. I am trying to automate publish in powerBI. I need to click on correct workspace. Right now i am trying with " My workspace" which is there only once. Please check this…
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UI Automation not recognized on VM

I'm having trouble locating UIa elements in the Teams desktop app. There is no problem on the development station with windows 10, but on vm ui elements are not recognized by pywinauto and inspect.exe. What could be causing the problem? All the…
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The windows application automating using pywinauto does not detect elements inside a TreeView, despite the elements have there own characteristic

The application I am automating is a win32 supported backend application and using inspect.exe to detect the elements Below is my code trying to click on sales receipt element, on execution I get error code:screenshot of the treeview in inspect.exe…
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Is there a way to retrieve Microsoft Project Gantt chart view data table cells font names programmatically?

I know that Microsoft Project Object model does't have any direct or indirect way to retrieve data table cells font names, I also tried third party project libraries (like Aspose.tasks) to see if they have functions to retrieve font names of cells…
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Karate - Robot for Java Based Desktop application. Unable to identify controls using Inspect.exe

I have implemented Karate for Functional Regression API Tests and Karate-Gatling for Performance tests and its working exceptionally well within our project. Now we wanted to expand Karate to UI Automation as well and in that regard we started with…
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Text is visible in UI of WPF application but WinAppdriver is unable to identify the text

I am trying to automate a windows Application (WPF) using WinAppdriver v1.2.1 and Java. However I am facing an issue now in identifying the Text which is visible in the UI but winappdriver is not able to locate it. (I made sure that the xpath is…
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How to force UI automation tree refresh

I am currently trying to use System.Windows.Automation to automate a chrome instance, but at a certain point AutomationElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition); returns always 0 children, but I can see them in inspect.exe. When I…
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Automate jitsi java application windows Desktop with pywinauto

I am using jitsi windows Desktop for test voip service product.jitsi is a java windows application I want automate jitsi for do it i use pywinauto is a python library for automate gui windows application and i use inspect.exe. but when i use…
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Inspect.exe is not identifying the UI elements of my QT application

I have been trying to access the UI elements of my QT application using inspect.exe. But unable to do so.. UI of my application is made in 2 ways: qml QWidgets Whole UI of my application was not visible to inspect tool in the first place but I…
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POWERPNT.EXE UI automation get children of PodiumParent panel using inspect.exe

When I use inspect.exe to inspect the presentation window of powerpnt.exe, it can NOT list any element of the window, but after enable "Watch Focus" of inspect.exe and click on presentation window, inspect.exe can show detail elements of the…
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WinAppDriver does not detect controls/component in LabVIEW executable

I am using WinAppDriver to automate my LabVIEW app UI testing. Inspect.exe can detect top level of active window but couldn't locate element inside the window. So I couldn't get the text inside the window. Does anyone know how I could get the…
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