+/** The ThreadEngine class has the responsibility of initialising
+ * Thread derived classes. It does this by creating operating system
+ * level threads which are then associated with the class transparently.
+ * This allows Thread classes to be derived without needing to know how
+ * the OS implements threads. You should ensure that any sections of code
+ * that use threads are threadsafe and do not interact with any other
+ * parts of the code which are NOT known threadsafe! If you really MUST
+ * access non-threadsafe code from a Thread, use the Mutex class to wrap
+ * access to the code carefully.
+ */
+class CoreExport ThreadEngine
+{
+ public:
+
+ /** Constructor.
+ * @param Instance Creator object
+ */
+ ThreadEngine();
+
+ /** Destructor
+ */
+ virtual ~ThreadEngine();
+
+ /** Create a new thread. This takes an already allocated
+ * Thread* pointer and initializes it to use this threading
+ * engine. On failure, this function may throw a CoreException.
+ * @param thread_to_init Pointer to a newly allocated Thread
+ * derived object.
+ */
+ void Start(Thread* thread_to_init);