Re: HELP: AfxBeginThread problem

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>Previously, this has been how i've been beginning a new thread:
>AfxBeginThread(SomeFunction, this); //being called from my applications Doc
>class
>SomeFunction was a global function:
>UINT SomeFunction(LPVOID pParam);
>
>However, I want to add an extra parameter to SomeFunction:
>
>UINT SomeFunction(LPVOID pParam, DataClass * pData);
>
>So now when I go to start a thread with this function, how to I do it?

Not like that obviously ;)

Pass the pointer to a structure (or class) that contains all the data
you need via the single void pointer parameter and cast appropriately
back to a pointer of your structure inside your thread function.

Dave
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