Mastering C++ Programming

Using std::thread in an object-oriented fashion

If you have been looking for the C++ thread class that looks similar to the Thread classes in Java or Qt threads, I'm sure you will find this interesting:

#include <iostream>#include <thread>using namespace std;class Thread {private:      thread *pThread;      bool stopped;      void run();public:      Thread();      ~Thread();      void start();      void stop();      void join();      void detach();};

This is a wrapper class that works as a convenience class for the C++ thread support library in this book. The Thread::run() method is our user-defined thread procedure. As I don't want the client code to invoke the Thread::run() method directly, I have declared the run method private. In order to start the thread, the client code has to ...