Native Window "Instance" Property

atom · Post by **atom** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:55 pm

Hiya

Can you explain what the "Instance" property displayed in the Spy tool is please ?

Thanks

Post by **Support Team** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:55 am

The instance is an index-like property for win32 windows which share the same class name, sorted by [x,y]. In some cases this is the only way to distinguish two windows (not including the volatile handle).

For example if there are two windows with class 'MyWndClass123' (and the same parent window) then one window has instance '0' and the other has instance '1'.

Michael
Ranorex Team