[JohnBoyMan]

Hello all. I am working with threads at the moment in my program. The thread is simple and looks like this.

void ThreadProc(void){

				 
};


Thread^ oThread = gcnew Thread( gcnew ThreadStart( this,&qualifiedlist::ThreadProc ) );
oThread->Start();

I have another simplar thread like this but its more complex. I try to set variables in it like this, for example.

int y;
void ThreadProc(void){
y=9;
				 
};


Thread^ oThread = gcnew Thread( gcnew ThreadStart( this,&qualifiedlist::ThreadProc ) );
oThread->Start();
cout<<y;

y will be 0!

This is veryyy simple stuff, but if i cout<<y; from outside of the ThreadProc it will be 0 always. I have tried a few other things, i dont ever remeber having this problem, i have been coding for 5 years,so am i nuts? Or should i use a delegate or something? thanks

[JackOfAllTrades]

Moved to CLI C++

[baavgai]

You know, computers are very fast...

Put a cout in your ThreadProc as well and see what you get:

void ThreadProc() {
cout<<"ThreadProc entered" << endl;
y=9;
cout << y << endl;
};

My first guess is that your print is running before your thread completely loaded up.

[Cenron]

JohnBoyMan, on 29 March 2012 - 02:30 AM, said:

Hello all. I am working with threads at the moment in my program. The thread is simple and looks like this.

void ThreadProc(void){

				 
};


Thread^ oThread = gcnew Thread( gcnew ThreadStart( this,&qualifiedlist::ThreadProc ) );
oThread->Start();

I have another simplar thread like this but its more complex. I try to set variables in it like this, for example.

int y;
void ThreadProc(void){
y=9;
				 
};


Thread^ oThread = gcnew Thread( gcnew ThreadStart( this,&qualifiedlist::ThreadProc ) );
oThread->Start();
cout<<y;

y will be 0!

This is veryyy simple stuff, but if i cout<<y; from outside of the ThreadProc it will be 0 always. I have tried a few other things, i dont ever remeber having this problem, i have been coding for 5 years,so am i nuts? Or should i use a delegate or something? thanks

Use the static keyword to declare the int as a global variable,

 static int y = 0;

The other way you can do it is declare it as a pointer.
so it can survive the scope of the function, I like this method better because then your not polluting the global namespace.

unsigned int __stdcall ThreadProc( void *param )
{
  int *y = reinterpret_cast<int *>( param );
  if( y != NULL )
    (*y) = 9;
}


int main()
{
  int y = 0; // Or int *y = new int;

  // Pass the address of the variable as a reference. 
  CreateThread( &ThreadProc, reinterpret_cast<void *>(&y) );
  std::cout << y << std::endl; // Should be 9.
}