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1.1       root        1: Sample: Spy
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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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