Cross-platform threads implementation
[WpcObj programmer's guide]

Cross-platform threads wrapper

PtThreads package is a set of source files which implements C++ wrappers over the thread manipulation objects. At this moment package provides three classes PtEvent, PtMutex and PtThread.

On Win32 systems this package covers the kernel objects such as thread, event and mutex. On Linux-based systems the pthread library is used as underlaying level.

These group may be used separately, and doesn't require all classes in the WpcObj library. You can even link to binary library without any overheads in resulting programm code. But the including source code of the PtThreads into your project is the preffered solution.

Acknowledgements

• Walter E. Capers for article on CodeProject and some code snippets.
• wxWidgets project for idea of the MutexLocker object.

Download

You may download PtThreads separately from WpcObj by the direct link: SourceForge files.

Classes
class	PtEvent
	Event class. More...
class	PtMutex
	Mutex class. More...
class	PtMutexLocker
	MutexLocker class. More...
class	PtThread
	Thread class. More...
Enumerations
enum	PtThreadState { ThreadStateIdle, ThreadStateRunning, ThreadStateFinished, ThreadStateFault }
	Values that represent PtThread state. More...
Functions
void	PtSleep (unsigned int msec)
	Cross-platform implementation of the Sleep function.

---

Enumeration Type Documentation

enum PtThreadState

Values that represent PtThread state.

Author:

A. Abramov, 13.05.2009.

Enumerator:

ThreadStateIdle	thread is currently suspended
ThreadStateRunning	thread is currently executing
ThreadStateFinished	thread is finish the work
ThreadStateFault	an error has occured and the thread could not be launched

---

Function Documentation

void PtSleep

(

unsigned int

msec

)

Cross-platform implementation of the Sleep function.

Author:

A. Abramov, 13.05.2009.