Question

Basically I have a class and it is instincable (not static). Basically I want the class to be able to generate its own threads and manage its own stuff. I don’t want to make a global callback for each instance I make, this doesnt seem clean and proper to me. What is the proper way of doing what I want. If I try to pass the threadproc to CreateThread and it is the proc from a class instance the compiler says I cannot do this. What is the best way of achieving what I want? Thanks

Answer 1

class Obj
{
    static ULONG WINAPI ThreadProc(void* p)
    {
       Obj* pThis = (Obj*)p;
       ... do stuff ...
       return 0;
    }

    void StartMemberThread()
    {
         CreateThread(... ThreadProc, this, ... ); 
    }
};

Trickiest part is making sure the thread doesn’t use pThis after the object goes away.