Looking for a good site or book that explains windows threads, preferably for a beginner. Maybe has a example program to run, etc....
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You want Chapter 20 of Programming Windows by Charles Petzold "Multitasking and Multithreading".
It also covers related things like synchronization, and events.
This book is a classic, and probably one of the best ways to get a very good understanding of how Windows Win32 programming works with C++.
Otherwise you can start on this MSDN pages for CreateThread.
For a more portable solution, boost threads are another way to go as well. Combined with boost::bind and several boost synchronization objects, it makes for a very powerful threading library.
Brian R. Bondy
2009-03-18 17:59:45
If following one of the links in that answer, you probably want one that is not related to managed C++.
Brian R. Bondy
2009-03-18 18:14:49