Threading in C++/CLI, CLR

Question

Faced a problem. Need to call a class member method on a separate thread C++/CLI

.h:

ref class BgWorker
{
private:
    void MainLoop();
public:
    void Start();
};

.cpp:

void BgWorker::MainLoop()
{
    while(true)
    {
        ...    
    }
}

void BgWorker::Start()
{
    System::Threading::Thread^ td = gcnew System::Threading::Thread(MainLoop); // v1; didn't working
    System::Threading::Thread^ td = gcnew System::Threading::Thread(gcnew System::Threading::ThreadStart(MainLoop)); // v2; didn't
    System::Threading::Thread^ td = gcnew System::Threading::Thread(gcnew System::Threading::ThreadStart(this, &MainLoop)); // v3; didn't

    std::thread td(MainLoop); // v4, didn't
}

Also tried via System::ComponentModel::DoWorkEventHandler(), most likely i did something wrong

I want to use this constructor, but I can't pull out a link to MainLoop:

public : Thread(System::Threading::ThreadStart^ start)

Same problem with standard stream std::thread, MainLoop is not a function reference

I couldn't find anything on my question on google. Many thanks for the help!

Answer 1

If anyone is interested, here's what I did:

BgWorker.h:

ref class BgWorker
{
    public:
        void MainLoop();
}

BgWorker.cpp:

#include "pch.h"
#include "BgWorker.h"

void BgWorker::MainLoop()
{
    ...
}

myProgramm.cpp:

#include "pch.h"
#include "BgWorker.h"

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
    BgWorker^bg = gcnew BgWorker();
    System::Threading::Thread^ ml = gcnew System::Threading::Thread(gcnew System::Threading::ThreadStart(bg, &BgWorker::MainLoop));
    ml->Name = "MainLoop";
    ml->Start();
}

It's not exactly what I wanted (didn't want to manage threads in main), but for starters, it's a great result. I also had to get rid of the now unnecessary BgWorker::Start() function.

Аnd yet, if someone knows how to start a new thread managed by an internal ref class method, I would be very happy with an example.

EDITED

Many thanks to Ben Voigt; it this question just looks ridiculously easy now

With the first structure:

void BgWorker::Start()
{
    System::Threading::Thread^ ml = gcnew System::Threading::Thread(gcnew System::Threading::ThreadStart(this, &BgWorker::MainLoop));
    ml->Name = "MainLoop";
    ml->Start();
}

This question can be closed now.