Odd but harmless side effect

[mgh]

I used FSUIPC to display VAS in the title bar. Now Task Manager no longer shows Microsoft Flight Simulator X but Monitor IPC:024C (S32) 3134840 where the last number is the VAS which, of course,  changes.

[Pete Dowson]

I used FSUIPC to display VAS in the title bar. Now Task Manager no longer shows Microsoft Flight Simulator X but Monitor IPC:024C (S32) 3134840 where the last number is the VAS which, of course,  changes.

 

Yes, that's cirrect. That's if you choose to use the Title Bar. You can alternatively display in a window or just in the Log file.

 

Pete

[mgh]

It's no problem and I think must be a quirk of FSX. I've written applications that change the title bar without changing its name.

[Pete Dowson]

It's no problem and I think must be a quirk of FSX. I've written applications that change the title bar without changing its name.

 

It is not a quirk at all. When you set the title bar text, you set it all. You can read it, append your own part, and set the result, and this is what FSUIPC does for WideServer status. But when monitoring values using the FSUIPC Monitor, I need space for up to 4 values, because that's how many you can monitor. Therefore wasting space on telling you it is Microsoft Flight Simulator X as well would be silly, don't you think? What is your problem with this?

 

Pete

[mgh]

I think you have missed my point which is that changing the text in the title bar on FSX also changes its name as shown  Task Manager.  That is not general behaviour and is a quirk of FSX.

[Pete Dowson]

I think you have missed my point which is that changing the text in the title bar on FSX also changes its name as shown  Task Manager.  That is not general behaviour and is a quirk of FSX.

 

Ah, sorry, I did miss the point about 'Task Manager'. And this is in the "Applications" tab, which here always seems to show whatever is in the title bar of each visible application. For instance, now, because FireFox replaces its title bar text with the title of the thing you are looking at, which for me at present is this thread -- that's what Task manager shows. Not "firefox" but "Odd but harmless side effect - FSUIPC Support Pete Dowson Modules - The Simflight ..."  etc etc

 

So, i don't think it's a special quirk of FSX but a general implementation in Task Manager.

 

The Processes tab however of course still shows the process name, FSX.EXE or FireFox.exe, etc.

 

Regards

Pete

[mgh]

Thinking more about it's a probably a quirk of Windows/Microsoft's C++. Here's a C++  application complied using Borland C++ builder running on Win7 that doesn't. I noted that Task manager itself does appear as an application - it's not recursive

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[Pete Dowson]

Thinking more about it's a probably a quirk of Windows/Microsoft's C++.

 

Well, maybe. But it's a bit odd -- you'd expect any application implementation of "SetWindowText" to call that API in Windows DLLs which would be common to all.

 

Pete