Re: [boost] Question about futures library that was written by Anthony Williams

Subject: Re: [boost] Question about futures library that was written by Anthony Williams
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-11 04:59:10

"Jon Shuler" <JShuler_at_[hidden]> writes:

> There is an example in the documentation under Creating Asynchronous
> Values that shows how to call a function.  Is it possible to call a
> member function that has arguments?

Not directly. You have to use boost::bind to wrap the member function
call:

packaged_task t(boost::bind(&X::foo,&some_x,arg1,arg2));

Anthony
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