Draw rectagle like accexplorer tool does

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Like accexplorer tool draw a highlight rectangle I am also trying to do the same but just show dialog instead for test.But on my machine it works win7 64bit; but fails on win8.1 wrong location ..But accexplorer is able to draw the rectangle perfectly...

I am using IAccessible::acclocation to get coordinates and the do screentoclient to show a child dialog at that location....But this is not accurate on the other machine.The other machine has different resolution etc

Please tell me how accexplorer draw the rectangle perfectly i.e calculates coordinates etc ..I have used spy++ which shows that accexplorer also draws rectangle by drawing thin windows bars

Posted 28-Oct-14 2:13am

Rajesh Katalkar

Updated 28-Oct-14 2:34am

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Richard MacCutchan 28-Oct-14 10:06am

Where are you trying to draw this rectangle?

Rajesh Katalkar 30-Oct-14 1:05am

top,left of document

Richard MacCutchan 30-Oct-14 4:20am

Is that supposed to be a technical description?

Rajesh Katalkar 30-Oct-14 8:21am

I am finding chrome main window handle and getting its accessible object...
Then enumerating it to find the loaded webpage document.I want to draw a window starting the top left corner of that webpage document.

Richard MacCutchan 30-Oct-14 10:01am

Then you need to find that document's window handle, then you can find its location and draw your rectangle.

Rajesh Katalkar 30-Oct-14 12:47pm

I am trying to avoid using window handles because sometimes the window is smaller than the document like when opened first time and gets resized properly when browser resized again.

Also all browsers are not going to have window handle,like firefox ..firefox is xul based and there is only one main window handle and the document does not have a dedicated window handle.

Also how to get window handle of document using accessibility; for chrome the docs window handle is "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND" but I get "Chrome_WidgetWin_1" when i query windowfromaccessibleobject on the document object.... But I have seen that accexplorer and other accessibility tools available on net gets "Chrome_RenderWidgetHostHWND" for document correctly..

You can find the accexplorer tool here
https://github.com/blackrosezy/gui-inspect-tool

Richard MacCutchan 31-Oct-14 4:26am

Sorry but that is a third party tool and I know nothing about it. You would need to find the people who wrote it and communicate with them.

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