Event driven thread programming

Hi. I'm fairly new to c++ so bear with me ;)

What i'm trying to code is an event driven register/dispatch system for dealing with incomming data from a socket. I have got the sockets bit figured out, but the next step is giving me a headache.

I want a registration method which invokes a new thread for each registered event and loops while checking for new data. When data corresponding to that event arrives it should send it to this thread whose loop will pick up the data from a queue and deal with it accordingly.

I was wondering if it was possible to pass a pointer to a function, which could then be executed when its corresponding event occurs. Or if not, does anyone know of a thread-safe framework for acheiving this kind of event driven program?

And you're new to C++?

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I was wondering if it was possible to pass a pointer to a function, which could then be executed when its corresponding event occurs.

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It is possible.

but implementation in most cases will be platform dependent... so better to ask on the corresponding board and list some details like OS, Compiler, etc

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Originally Posted by vart

It is possible.

but implementation in most cases will be platform dependent... so better to ask on the corresponding board and list some details like OS, Compiler, etc

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I'd like to keep it as platform-independant as possible as it must compile in both windows and linux. I dont mind switching a few header files or minor adjustments to system functions, but the overall framework must produce the same result.

That is why I am compiling in mingw for windows and gcc for linux, and i'm using the boost::threads library for the threading part.

Since you are with boost already, I believe a portable solution is the boost::signal library.

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/signal...html#id2731417

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Originally Posted by Mario F.

Since you are with boost already, I believe a portable solution is the boost::signal library.

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/signal...html#id2731417

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Perfect, Thanks :)

If you're dealing with sockets, an even better way is to use Boost.Asio, which pretty much does what you want.