Need guru help with Windows API

I create a COM object which appears in the task manager under the name
of the exe file the COM server is stored. I would like to know if
there is a Windows API call to change the name that appears in the
task manager to something else for every instance. The main reason is
that I create single use instances and I would like to distinguish
between them in the task manager especially if I have to kill one or
the other (in addition to making a more sensible name).

Although not directly related to Dolphin, I figured since it
interfaces with Windows someone could have an idea on how to do this.

Thank you,

Costas

[hidden email] (Costas Menico) wrote in message news:<[hidden email]>...
It seems that the text which appears in Task Manager is just the
window title; if so you can use View>>setWindowText: to set your
window title to something unique for each instance of your app.  HTH.
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Bob Jarvis

"Bob Jarvis" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > task manager to something else for every instance. The main reason is
> > that I create single use instances and I would like to distinguish
> It seems that the text which appears in Task Manager is just the
> window title; if so you can use View>>setWindowText: to set your
> window title to something unique for each instance of your app.  HTH.

i doubt this would work since he has single instances local server exe-s and
the gui is in the other process.

what he could do is create a custom 'task manager - kill' application ( i
guess one can easily find a source for something like this), and also have
each server process create something in the process (semaphore or something
that is per process, and not global), and then the custom kill can read
those things from processes and display unique string for each process...

or he could save a file from each process named by the process id, and put
an unique identifier for each process in its file, then you can read those
files and kill by the process id, which is displayed in the task manager.

davorin mestric

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:29:24 +0200, "Davorin Mestric"
<[hidden email]> wrote:

This is exactly what I ended up doing. I created a task manager for my
own processes. I can then kill the tasks by using processid....

Thanks

Costas