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Cedric Moonen wrote:

The first thing which is important to understand here is that the static member of a class is shared across all instances of that class

struct Task
{
   sometimestruct Time;
   THREAD_ROUTINE Thread;
};

Task tasks [] = { { MakeTimeSomehow (1515), TaskA}, { MakeTimeSomehow (1600), TaskB}, ...  { 0, NULL} };

for (nTask; tasks [nTask]; nTask++)
{
   int nSeconds = TimeBetweenNowAnd (tasks [nTask].Time);
   if (nSeconds < 0) nSecconds = 0;

   Sleep (1000 * nSeconds);  // wait till desired time, or 0ms if we should get on with it!

   HANDLE hThread = StartThread (tasks [nTask].Thread, ......);
   WaitForHandle (hThread);   // a thread handle is a waitable object, just like an event.
   CloseHandle (hThread);
}

s v joshi wrote:

At a time only one process is allowed to execute since

Chuck Vought wrote:

How do you go about randomly assigning alternating vowels and consonants? I have created arrays for each but can not determine the way to alternate them.

Chuck Vought wrote:

const int index = (int)((double)rand()/(RAND_MAX+1) * sizeof(consonant));

const int index = rand() % sizeof(consonants);

for(UINT i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
{
     if(i % 2 == 0)
     {
          //Even.
     }
     else
     {
          //Odd.
     }
}

for(UINT i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
{
     if(i & 0x1)
     {
          //Odd.
     }
     else
     {
          //Even.
     }
}

char RandomVowel()
{
   const char vowels[] = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'};
   // Use rand() to get a number between 0 and RAND_MAX. Dividing
   // by RAND_MAX+1 gives a number n such that 0 <= n < 1, so
   // multiplying by the number of characters in vowels gives a random
   // index into vowels
   const int index = (int)((double)rand()/(RAND_MAX+1) * sizeof(vowels));
   return vowels[index];
}

std::string name;
name += (char)toupper(RandomConsonant());
for(int i=1;i<desired-name-length;++i)
{
   if (i%2==1)
      name += RandomVowel();
   else
      name += RandomConsonant();
}