OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32 -- lowering the priority of a process

• Posted by "Martin Stachon" <martin.stachon at tiscali.cz> Dec 31, 2003
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Andy Serpa wrote:

> I'd like to have my program automatically run at lower-than-normal
> priority on Windows (as opposed to using the task manager to do it in XP
> after it is already running).  Anyone know how to have the program
> choose its own priority?

The tome of wisdom says :

The SetPriorityClass function sets the priority class for the specified process.
This
value together with the priority value of each thread of the process determines
each
thread's base priority level.

BOOL SetPriorityClass(

    HANDLE hProcess, // handle to the process
    DWORD dwPriorityClass  // priority class value
   );

hProcess : Identifies the process.
dwPriorityClass : Specifies the priority class for the process. Specify one of
the
following values:

HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS
IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS

There's also SetThreadPriority, but I am not sure if this can be applied to
Euphoria.

-- Martin