[Nano511]

I pass Player player as a reference to the ReceiveMessageThread() thread function but the changes in the function do not actually change the player object's variables.


The irrelvant parts of code have been removed and replaced with "..."

...
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// THREAD FOR RECEIVING MESSAGES //
void ReceiveMessageThread(Player& p)
{
	 ...

		 else // message receivied
		 {
                      packet >> rDStruct;
       
			 p.xPos = rDStruct.xPos;// sets xPos to 95
			 ...

			 std::cout<< p.xPos <<std::endl; // this outputs 95 as it should.
	 }
}




///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// *** ENTRY POINT OF PROGRAM *** //
int main()
{
	...

	Player player;

        ...

	 //Launch a thread of receiving messages
	 sf::Thread ReceiveThread(&ReceiveMessageThread, player);
	 ReceiveThread.launch();


	 //start the game loop
	 while(Mainwindow.isOpen())
	 {

	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// UPDATE //
		 std::cout<<player.xPos<<std::endl;  // This outputs 100, but it should be 95.

	...

	return 0;
}

This post has been edited by Nano511: 08 December 2012 - 06:43 PM

[#define]

You are passing to the ReceiveThread function will that need to be a reference as well?


Here they use a pointer.

Tutorial - System - Using threads and mutexes

This post has been edited by #define: 08 December 2012 - 09:20 PM

[Nano511]

Im using SFML 2.0, the tutorial you posted is for 1.6. In the tutorial for 2.0 on threads, http://www.sfml-dev....stem-thread.php, they dont do it like that. I will try it the way it is shown in 1.6 tutorial just in case though.

[Nano511]

Yes that fixed it thank you.