Is there any way to name external threads?

Question

TThread.NameThreadForDebugging is great for telling threads apart, but not all of my threads are TThread descendants. I have some that are created by an external library that's not even written in Delphi. Is there any way to name them if I can find a way to get their thread handles?

Answer 1

See this MSDN article: How to: Set a Thread Name in Native Code

This works for Visual Studio. I don't know whether the Delphi debugger will pick up the name.

Note that you need the thread ID rather than the thread handle.