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Snoop Tips & Tricks #2: Snooping Transient Visuals

February 14th, 2011

In this trick, I show you how useful the prior one can really be.

That is, it can be used to Snoop transient visuals … or visuals that aren’t currently in the visual tree. A perfect example of this type of visual … are combo box items.

Snoop Tips & Tricks #2: Snooping Transient Visuals

One thing I forgot to mention in the video … check out the root of the visual tree after I have used the Ctrl-Shift Mouse Over trick on the combo box item … it is not an App object … but a PopupRoot object. This is further indication that Snoop has refreshed the visual tree and placed the transient visual there in place of the normal App object.

Happy Snooping!

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Snoop Tips & Tricks #1: Ctrl-Shift Mouse Over

February 10th, 2011

I am always surprised how many people don’t know about this trick … but I guess it isn’t really obvious since I removed the tip from the status bar … in favor of some keyboard functionality.

I thought the best way to show this trick off … is with a screencast. Enjoy!

Snoop Tips & Tricks #1: Ctrl-Shift Mouse Over

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