Creating a thread with a class member

[McBugzz]

I absolutely need to create a new thread, and the starting procedure has to be a non-static class member function. Is that possible? I get "error C2664: '_beginthread' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'void (void *)' to 'void (__cdecl *)(void *)'" which is natural because "this" pointer is also passed to all non-static members...

The method has to be non-static for two reasons: a) I may need several instances of the class in question; b) making this method static will force to make some fields static too, and static variables have a very limited scope - file.

Anybody can suggest anything?

 

[ArkM]

1. You can't start a thread with non-static member function because of a pointer to non-static member function is NOT a pointer to an ordinal function (remember about hidden this pointer parameter, for example).
2. Static members have a class scope, they are true static vars and live from the program start upto its die...
3. You may pass a class object pointer or reference in your (static member or ordinal proxy) thread function to call this object members in the thread...