SbThread Class Reference

A class for managing threads. More...

#include <Inventor/threads/SbThread.h>

Public Member Functions
SbBool	join (void **retval=0L)

Static Public Member Functions
static SbThread *	create (void *(*func)(void *), void *closure)
static void	destroy (SbThread *thread)
static SbBool	join (SbThread *thread, void **retval=0L)

Protected Member Functions
	SbThread (cc_thread *thrd)
	~SbThread (void)

Detailed Description

A class for managing threads.

This class provides a portable framework around the tasks of instantiating, starting, stopping and joining threads.

It wraps the underlying native thread-handling toolkit in a transparent manner, to make multiplatform threads programming straightforward for the application programmer.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SbThread()

SbThread::SbThread ( cc_thread * thread )

inlineprotected

Protected constructor handling the internal thread ADT.

See also

SbThread::create

~SbThread()

SbThread::~SbThread ( void )

inlineprotected

Destructor.

See also

SbThread::destroy

Member Function Documentation

create()

static SbThread * SbThread::create ( void *(*)(void *) func, void * closure )

inlinestatic

This function creates a new thread, or returns NULL on failure.

destroy()

static void SbThread::destroy ( SbThread * thread )

inlinestatic

This function destroys a thread.

join() [1/2]

int SbThread::join ( void ** retval = 0L )

inline

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

join() [2/2]

static int SbThread::join ( SbThread * thread, void ** retval = 0L )

inlinestatic

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• SbThread.h
• thread.cpp