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"Randall Parker" <STOPtechiepundit@EVILfuturePOXpunditSPAM.com> wrote in
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> Well, suppose you use Win32 CreateThread? How do name such a thread?

The exact same way that you do with TThread.  At the beginning of the block
of code that you pass as the lpStartAddress parameter of CreateThread(), use
the exact same code to raise the exact same exception.  RaiseException() is
a Win32 API function, afterall.  Besides, TThread uses CreateThread()
internally, so obviously the approach works for any thread that is started
by CreateThread().

> I have some code that I must keep compatible with MSVC
> and BCB and need a way to name threads that is not VCL specific.

The code that the TThread wizard generates for naming a thread is *NOT*
VCL-based to begin with.  The RaiseException() approach is the exact same
thing that Microsoft uses as well.

> I've looked here:
<snip>
> and nothing looks appropriate.

You are looking in the wrong place.  Look here instead:

    Setting a Thread Name (Unmanaged)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxtsksettingthreadname.asp?frame=true


Gambit