Question

I created a widget.h file containing the declartions of pthread_function and I wanted to call it in a member function destroyWidget of that class Widget in widget.cpp. but always shows an error. I’ll show the .cpp and .h file.

widget.h file

class Widget
{
public:
Widget();
void createWidget(int x,int y,int w,int h);
void showWidget();
int wid;
pthread_t thread;
int *incomingval,id;
void join();
Window win;
XEvent evt;
private:
void* destroyWidget(void* ptr);
Display *disp;
int screenNumber;
unsigned long white;
unsigned long black;
long eventMask;
GC gc;
int tbit;
int *incoming,val;
};

now the widget.cpp

Widget::Widget()
{
disp=XOpenDisplay( NULL );
screenNumber=DefaultScreen(disp);
white=WhitePixel(disp,screenNumber);
black=BlackPixel(disp,screenNumber);
eventMask=StructureNotifyMask;
tbit=0;
}

void Widget::createWidget(int x,int y,int w,int h)
{
wid=w;
win= XCreateSimpleWindow(disp,DefaultRootWindow(disp),x,y,w,h,1,white,black);
}

void Widget::showWidget()
{
XMapWindow(disp,win);
XFlush(disp);
gc=XCreateGC(disp,win,0,NULL);
XSetForeground(disp,gc,white);
XDrawLine(disp,win,gc,wid-10,0,wid,10);
XDrawLine(disp,win,gc,wid-10,10,wid,0);
//calling the thread function
pthread_create( &thread, NULL, destroyWidget, this);
}

void Widget::join()
{
pthread_join( thread, NULL);
}
void* Widget::destroyWidget(void* ptr)
{
Widget* mw = static_cast(ptr);
eventMask=ButtonPressMask|ButtonReleaseMask;
XSelectInput(disp,win,eventMask);
do{
printf("id= %d",id);
XNextEvent(disp,&evt);
}while(evt.type!=ButtonRelease);
XDestroyWindow(disp,win);
XCloseDisplay(disp);
return NULL;
}

now the main.cpp file

#include "widget.h"
#include
int main()
{
Widget* w=new Widget();
Widget* n=new Widget();
n->createWidget(20,20,150,150);
w->createWidget(50,50,250,250);
n->showWidget();
w->showWidget();
n->join();
w->join();
return 0;
}

the error is

widget.cpp: In member function ‘void Widget::showWidget()’:
widget.cpp:44:51: error: argument of type ‘void* (Widget::)(void*)’ does not match ‘void* (*)(void*)’

Answer 1

The problem is that pthread_create is a C-style function; you need to give it a pointer-to-function. Widget::destroyWidget() is a pointer-to-member-function. (Remember that non-static member functions always have an implied this argument, which pthread_create doesn’t know how to provide.)

See the answers to this question for some possible solutions: pthread function from a class.