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        !             3: Summary:
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        !             5: The SPY SDK sample provides a demonstration for monitoring system messages sent to a specified window.  SPY records the messages and displays them on the specified device.  SPY is also useful in debugging for verifying that the messages you think a window is receiving are being received.    
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        !             7: SPY demonstrates the following techniques:
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        !             9: 1. Using a system message hook.
        !            10: 2. Using the new WM_COPYDATA message to pass data to another application.
        !            11: 3. Reading and writing the Registry.
        !            12: 4. Creating a thread.
        !            13: 5. Creating a DLL for the hook.
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        !            15: More Information:
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        !            17: To use SPY to monitor messages, do the following:
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        !            19: 1. Choose the Options menu to select the following:
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        !            21: - Messages - to select the messages you wish to monitor.
        !            22: - Font - to select the font you wish to have displayed.
        !            23: - Output - to select the output device to which you want messages to go (currently COM: is not enabled).
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        !            25: 2. Select the window whose messages you want to watch by choosing the Select window command from the Spy menu.  This will bring up a dialog box listing the current windows to watch.  The default is all windows.
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        !            27: 3. The Edit menu it provided to allow you to cut/copy/paste to the clipboard from the SPY window.
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        !            29: 4. Choose Start! to start monitoring.  Once this option is chosen, the menu item will change to Stop!.  Choose Stop! to cease monitoring messages.
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