Passing reference to thread

[gtsongi]

Hi!

I'm a newbie to C++. I'm using Visual C++ 2008.
I need to pass the reference of a PictureBox to a thread.
How can I do this?
I've created the thread like this:

Thread^ oThread =
gcnew Thread(gcnew ThreadStart( ThreadClass::ThreadFunction ) );
oThread->Start();

Thanks in advance!

[Lindley]

That looks like managed code, better try the managed forum.

[cilu]

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See the overload of Start() that takes an object. There are examples in MSDN.

BTW, this is C++/CLI, not C++.

[gtsongi]

Thanks for your reply!
I've tried overloading the Start() method, but the problem is that I can't convert the Object^ type to PictureBox^.
How can I convert Object^ to PictureBox^?

[cilu]

What do you mean you tried overloading the Start() method?

Show us the code and we might be able to tell what the problem is.

To convert from object^ to PictureBox^ you use the dynamic_cast operator.

void func(Object^ ctrl)
{
PictureBox^ pb = dynamic_cast<PictureBox^>(ctrl);
}