Re: boost::threads queation

Thanks guys. I asked the same question on the other newsgroup (for developers i think) and someone suggested thread::bind as well. That worked very well. "bill_kempf" wrote in message news:aeo16o+mj9j@eGroups.com...

--- In Boost-Users@y..., Mark Storer wrote:

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This has little to do with boost (which, again, is why I can answer; at least in part)

A member function cannot be addressed like a regular function. Ask yourself this question: With just a function pointer to go by, what will the compiler use for 'this'?

The Good News: STL contains a template functor to take care of this for you: "std::mem_fun". I haven't messed with it personally, but the docs sure make it sound like it would do the trick.

The Bad News: I'm not so sure the thread class will let you use it.

I'm not familiar with the function0<> template, so I don't know whether or not std::mem_fun will work with boost::thread.

Any function object that takes no parameters and returns void will work here. This includes std::mem_fun. I might suggest boost::bind instead, though. It's a little more flexible then the adapters provided by the standard.

Bill Kempf