This is a little embarassing asking this because I used to know this. How do you create a seperate thread in C++ and have mutexes, semiphores and all that. I have forgotten and I wonder if anyone knows a good example.
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Jump to Postdepends on the operating system. For ms-windows, I use CreateThread() and CreateMutex(). see MSDN for details.
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depends on the operating system. For ms-windows, I use CreateThread() and CreateMutex(). see MSDN for details.
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depends on the operating system. For ms-windows, I use CreateThread() and CreateMutex(). see MSDN for details.
Ok.
Are these things that require MFC? The information I got from Microsoft was __declspc(thread), _beginthread() and _endthread()
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none of those functions require MFC. _beginthread() can also be used, but I find it more convenient to use CreateThread(). Here is an example.
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Lots of good help.
I will add to your rep.
Now I want to know is this.
How do I open a window in a seperately called thread of execution?
I cannot do it in MFC because MFC requires its own thread of execution.
But even when I create a windows app without MFC, it seems entry point. _t winMain is called by an main thread of execution nested in a microsoft routine. I want my own thread to call my own winmain. How do I do this?
(Maybe I need to look at the mozilla open source to see)
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