moThread.h

Go to the documentation of this file.

/*******************************************************************************

                                moThread.h

  ****************************************************************************
  *                                                                          *
  *   This source is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify    *
  *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by   *
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or      *
  *  (at your option) any later version.                                    *
  *                                                                          *
  *   This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but       *
  *   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of             *
  *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU      *
  *   General Public License for more details.                               *
  *                                                                          *
  *   A copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the World     *
  *   Wide Web at <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. You can also       *
  *   obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation,                  *
  *   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.         *
  *                                                                          *
  ****************************************************************************

  Copyright(C) 2006 Fabricio Costa

  Authors:
  Fabricio Costa


  Class:
  moThread

  Description:
  Thread Class implementation, virtual


*******************************************************************************/

#include "moTypes.h"


#include "moLock.h"

#ifndef __MO_THREAD_H
#define __MO_THREAD_H


typedef  void* moBoostThread;

class LIBMOLDEO_API moThread {

    public:
        moThread();
        virtual ~moThread();

        bool CreateThread();

        bool KillThread();
        bool ThreadExists();

        bool SendThreadMessage( int message );

    private:

        moBoostThread m_handleThread;
        moLock m_DataLock;

        virtual int ThreadUserFunction() = 0;

#ifndef WIN32
        static void* InitialThreadFunction( void *data );
#else
        static DWORD WINAPI InitialThreadFunction( LPVOID data );
#endif




        bool ProcessMessage();

};

#endif