UI inspector

To study the interface structure of Windows desktop applications, Astro Studio has the UI Inspector panel. To start working, you should click the "Update the Tree" button . After clicking the button, the inspector will start to inspect all running applications and display the application structures that have a graphical interface. The left part of the panel displays the control tree.

When a controller is selected, its attributes will be displayed on the right side of the screen.

This information is convenient to use when building templates for searching for elements of desktop applications.

"Refresh tree (10s pause)" button updates the information about controllers with delay of 10 seconds. This function is used to get the main and context menues.

"Copy search pattern" button copies the search pattern of selected element to the clipboard.

"Add search pattern" button adds a new search bar to the current pattern.

"Add attribute" button moves the selected attribute to the current search pattern.‌

"Search" button searches for the entered information in the component tree, starting with the selected element.