How Do I send Parameters to a Thread in Motion?

[stephenprogrammer07]

Hi


I am trying to figure out how to pass a parameter to a Thread . Specifically char*. I might not be explaining correctly, so here are some snippets of my code.

My main looks like this

int main()
{  
             ThreadManager tm; 
             tm.launchThread (&tm); 
             
             while(true)
             {
                    // ... code to capture events and send char* parameters
                   // by some yet to be determined means to this thread.
             }

} 

//---------------------
class ThreadManager
{
     private: 
      DWORD m_dwThreadID; 
      HANDLE m_hThread;           
              
     public:
       
      ThreadManager(); 
      ~ThreadManager();      
      bool launchThread(ThreadManager *w); 
      HANDLE TheHandle(void) const; 
      static DWORD WINAPI  ThreadFunc(LPVOID pvParam);
      void close();
      void shuttingDown();
};

implementation below 

...

DWORD WINAPI ThreadManager::ThreadFunc(LPVOID pvParam)
{

     SpecialThread sp;
     SpecialThread.foo("Sample Parameter");
      while(true)
      {
                
       }
}

I know this might look a bit weird. But it's necessary for me to keep main from being blocked by the activities of SpecialThread sp; It's a long story. That class just takes a couple seconds to do what it does and I can't have it freeze the app. I tried every work around and can't find one. With this solution SpecialThread launches and main() does not get blocked.

So here is the big question:

SpecialThread takes char* in foo(char* c );.

My hope is to figure out a way to pass a char* from main() through Threadmanager to SpecialThread a char* parameter.

Does anyone have any idea on how I could possibly do this ?
SpecialThread will be the only thread launched. So If I can just send some char* parameters to foo() I'll be finished.

Thanks in advance - will definitily be giving rep points for help on this one .

Stephen