Spy++ not showing messages.

Question

_{Monday, November 18, 2013 7:20 PM}

Spy++ doesn't show any messages for any window/process I attach to.  Any.

Logging is on (green light), all message types selected, etc.

Absolutely no messages appear.

Any ideas?

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:27 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Please try to use the Finder Tool in ‘Find Window’ to locate the expected window and show message.

Please see: How to: Open Messages View from Find Window

Reference:

If no help, which version and edition of Visual Studio do you work with?

I assume you mean that no message will appear in Message Window when you right click some windows/processes and select ‘Message’, whether other windows/processes can get message?

I also doubt that your operation is not enought to get the message. For some windows, I can't get the message only through click 'start loging' and 'stop logging'.Please do some actions on the window after starting logging and stop logging to check the result.

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_{Friday, July 25, 2014 1:48 AM | 2 votes}

I know I'm a little late. But I found this thread with Google, so others will end up here too.

I had the same problem, when I used spy++ 64 on some Chrome window. No messages displayed at all, no error message. Using spy++ (without the 64) it works fine though.

Hope this helps

_{Monday, January 21, 2019 3:33 PM | 1 vote}

I confirm, spy++ version matters.

spyxx_amd64 works for me, but spyxx.exe doesn't show messages.