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"Alistair" <NoSpamPlease@Somewhere.Com> wrote in message
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> I can't pass the pointer of a class function to CreateThread

Well, technically you can, but not easily.  You would essentially have to
use a proxy function in order to do it.  Using a static method is easier,
though, especially since CreateThread() allows a user-defined value to be
passed to the thread instance.  That makes a proxy function unnecessary.

> so I pass a static member with the instance as a parameter 'this'.

That is fine.  There is nothing wrong with doing that, and that works very
well, as my earlier example showed.

> I am trying to replicate the pascal version of TThread, and I
> want to keep everything tidy inside the class.  No external
> declarations, etc...

I gave you the code to do exactly that.

TThread only has two external dependancies - the ThreadProc() function and a
global TList for use with the TThread.Synchronize() method.  Both of which
can be inplemented using static members.

> How can i write my code so that I can get Execute of the derived
> code to be called instead of the base class Execute, from a base class
> function called by the thread?

The code I gave you does exactly that.  Did you try the code yet?  I told
you that I did run it and it worked fine.  Derived::Execute() was called as
expected.


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