Unable to inspect element using inspect.exe.

[sawhneysharad]

I am writing to automate windows installer using Robot framework's "White Library". Using inspect.exe to inspect element and it is giving me error like Cannot get object from point: [Error: FromPoint: hr=0xFFFFFFFF80070005 - Access is denied.] Please help me with this and let me know if you need more information.

[hassanuz]

I'd try running inspect in admin mode and see if that solves the problem (or try a different version of inspect if you have any other Windows 10 SDKs installed).

Also give UI Recorder a shot.

[sawhneysharad]

Thanks for your reply. I can see the details in admin mode but still not able to find locators for elements like buttons and getting classname same of every button. Any suggestions?

[hassanuz]

@sawhneysharad, in that case I would resort to using UI Recorder to generate the XPath for the desired element.

[danielsavi]

@sawhneysharad Did you tried changing inspect mode? AFAIK it supports either MSAA or UI Automation.

How about other tools? For example:

1. VisualUIAVerifyNative => "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.18362.0\x86\UIAVerify\VisualUIAVerifyNative.exe"
2. UIRecorder - https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/tree/master/Tools/UIRecorder

[sohaibjaved44]

@sawhneysharad any luck with this so far? I am into the same problem, I have tried many different inspectors but it only shows me the Title bar(with icon,Title, minimize, maximize and close buttons) of the window. No other children are in the list. I have tried to read the page source property from C# code using winAppDriver but same, found only title bar.

[sagar-ind]

I have also facing same issue. i have also tried with multiple inspector but it only shows me the Windows title bar. My Windows desktop application was developed by JUCE framework and C ++ code.

[sanjayshukla84]

@sohaibjaved44 @sawhneysharad @sagar-ind any luck on this issue. I am also facing same issue.

[vijay2249]

@sanjayshukla84 anu luck so far? Kinda stuck with the same issue..

[JanTrnavskyNovanta]

I have also facing same issue. i have also tried with multiple inspector but it only shows me the Windows title bar. My Windows desktop application was developed by JUCE framework and C ++ code.

I had the same issue https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1789#issuecomment-1315339204 Try opening the app before you start inspect.exe It is weird and I have no idea why it did help in my case but it might be worth trying it even for you