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New version released! Download it here

This is a major update with a lot of changes:

using separated window for process
new UI
Dark and Light theme support
implement settings
new icons
new application selection bounding
redesigned:
property grid
control tree
menu buttons
mouse hover control selection
improved performance
fixed and redesigned 3-state highlight of selected control

Main window and selection application highlights.

Main window display application and allow user to select it from list or press and hold Find window button and drag mouse over applications. The FlaUinspect will highlight the application under mouse cursor and select id in the list.

Hover mode

Select Hover mode button and hold Ctrl key and move mouse over application windows. The FlaUInspect will highlight the control under mouse cursor and select it in the tree.

Highlight selection

Select Selection Mode button and click on any control in the application. The FlaUInspect will highlight the selected control in the application.

Highlight selectin and Dark theme

FlaUinspect supports Light and Dark theme currently.

Download it here

This is a major update with a lot of changes:

Complete rewrite of the application
New UI
New features
Much more stable
Based on .NET 8
Three separate versions for UIA2 and UIA3 and default with choosing on startup

To install FlaUInspect, either build it yourself or get the zip from the releases page here on GitHub (https://github.com/FlaUI/FlaUInspect/releases).

There are various tools around which help inspecting application that should be ui tested or automated. Some of them are:

VisualUIAVerify
Inspect
UISpy
and probably others Most of them are old and sometimes not very stable and (if open source), a code mess to maintain.

FlaUInspect is supposed to be a modern alternative, based on FlaUI.

On startup of FlaUInspect, you can choose if you want to use UIA2 or UIA3 ( see FAQ why you can't use both at the same time). You can use pre-built versions of FlaUInspect.UIA2 and FlaUInspect.UIA3 if you want to use a version of UIA.

Buttons	Description
Hover Mode	Enable this mode to select the item the mouse is over immediately in FlaUInspect when control is pressed
Selection Mode	Selected item in tree will highlight on screen
Focus Tracking	Enable this mode that the focused element is always automatically selected in FlaUInspect
Show XPath	Enable this option to show a simple XPath to the current selected element in the StatusBar of FlaUInspect

Deployed FlaUInspect, FlaUInspect.UIA2, and FlaUInspect.UIA3 applications with hardcoded UI2 or UI3 selection.
Refactored code and implemented asynchronous operations.
Redesigned the property grid; collapsed groups remain collapsed after selecting another control.
Added a third selection state: highlighting the selected control in an application.
Included a refresh button for each item in the tree. *Refined icons.