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frogb
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It would be really helpful to have thread descriptions available in bugreport.txt.

I can set this using the Windows 10 API:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... escription

Where in the MadExcept source code is the best place a place to add GetThreadDescription to display it alongside the Thread ID ?
frogb
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I have now found SetThreadInfo and made a change to add it to the implementation section of madExcept.pas so that I can call it after creating threads. The ones I need to show in bugreport.txt are actually created in a Microsoft C DLL which can already call some functions in the main Delphi program. This works well!
madshi
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There's already an API exported by madExcept.pas called "NameThread()":

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// to make the bug report more readable, you can name your secondardy threads
procedure NameThread (threadId: dword; const threadName: UnicodeString);
Internally it calls "SetThreadInfo".
frogb
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Post by frogb »

Thanks, that's easier!
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