On (19 Mar 97) Neil Heller wrote to Jerry Coffin...
 JC> For its address to be a normal pointer to a function, the member
 JC> has to be static.
 NH> The member variable or the member function?  Could you please write a
 NH> short example for me (us)?  Thank you.
The member function.  Here's a class I wrote for a vaguely similar
situation a while back:
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include 
class ThreadBase {
	HANDLE handle;
    int state_;
	DWORD static __stdcall RealThreadProc(void *theClass) {
		return ((ThreadBase *)theClass)->ThreadProc();
    }
public:
	virtual DWORD ThreadProc() = 0;
	ThreadBase() {
        DWORD ID;
		CreateThread(NULL, 0, &RealThreadProc, this, CREATE_SUSPENDED, &ID);
	}
	int priority() { return GetThreadPriority(handle); }
	BOOL priority(int new_priority) {
		return SetThreadPriority(handle, new_priority);
	}
    DWORD run() { return ResumeThread(handle); }
	~ThreadBase() { CloseHandle(handle); }
    void wait(DWORD how_long) { WaitForSingleObject(handle, how_long); }
	// give the caller the thread handle to put in an array 
	// in a call to [Msg]WaitForMultipleObjects.
	HANDLE operator()() { return handle; }
};
This encapsulates a Win32 thread into an object.  The thread function
(which gets called by the system, much like the mouse interrupt function
does) is a static member.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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